I think I'll eventually move from LA... Check out this house in North Carolina (here's the virtual tour). It looks amazing and it is a third of the price my parents paid for their new house. Real estate is so expensive in Southern California!

You know how sometimes you just question the life you lead and you wonder what life would be like somewhere else? I love LA but what would it be like to live in a small town where everyone knows everyone? I guess I'm thinking of situations like Sweet Home Alabama or Hope Floats. Maybe its that Simple Life shit. I've dealt with traffic all my life, even in OC - what would it be like in some other state?

If my parents hadn't moved to California from New York, I'd be a completely different person than I am now. What if we had stayed in Louisiana?? Or even Brazil or Taiwan? My life would be so different. People are so much more intense on the East Coast. They're more passionate about stuff than people in LA (in general).

I wanted a job like my friend Sebastian had for Andersen Consulting (I think they changed their name to Accenture or something like that now) - they'd send him to different cities to work for a short amount of time and the company pays your rent, etc. You get to experience so many lifestyles and when you're finally ready to settle down, you know where you want to be.

Why is it so hard for me to find something I want to buy for $5.01?? I found this awesome deal on a cute dinnerware set I don't really need and now I'm trying to find something for $5.01 so I'd get free shipping. I want the Evolution (David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott) DVD but I don't feel like paying $13.49 for it. At least this has kept me busy all morning.

I've been so busy/lazy I haven't blogged in a while...

Sunday - I spent Saturday night, Sunday morning and afternoon at my parent's house in OC so I completely missed the biggest news this year. How can someone who prides herself on knowing all the news, political and celebrity gossip, etc. not know that Saddam was captured until after everyone and their mommas knew?? In fact, my mom was the one who told me and my dad had told her! My parents barely know English and they knew!! I'm losing my touch. My roommate barely watches American TV (she sticks to Chinese programming and videos) and she was the one who told me on Tuesday night that there was a Primetime Live interview with Pres. Bush.

Monday Night Football was awesome because a former Bruin finally did something in the NFL! Freddie Mitchell (wide receiver for the Eagles) threw a 25 yard TD pass in the game. He did that all the time at UCLA... oh my gosh, I miss my college years... when UCLA was actually good in sports. How the hell did UCLA's basketball team just lose to UCSB the other night??

Tuesday - don't read if you haven't watched that episode of 24 yet and you're planning to... I yelled NOOOOOOOO when Tony collapsed and I almost started crying but then he got up so I was ok. Why is his wife acting like such a bitch though?? It's all part of the job, especially that job and if one person is higher up on the ladder than the other one, they'll know top secret shit they can't tell the other person. It's not like he was cheating on her or anything. Steph thinks it's hilarious how into the show I am. I can't believe we have to wait 3 weeks for the next "hour".

I knew it was too good to be true to have a competent assistant. Stan has this agreement at this office where he gives the big company a percentage of his profits in exchange for office space, computer help and employees the big company pays for (the employees - me, Eileen and Daniel - work just on Stan's stuff). The one employee (he was smart and he was from UCLA) the big company had left last week and they hired this Asian girl (Jane) to take his place but she's not as bright and she doesn't speak English as well as Daniel so the big boss tells us he's going to have Daniel and Jane "split up" the work between Stan and the big company. This is just a nice way of saying, we're gonna take the smarter employee and leave you guys with the other one because your work isn't as important. I understand where the big boss is coming from though - he sends Daniel out on audits, etc and its better to have someone competent go out to the clients instead of someone quiet who barely speaks English. I miss having Daniel to give work to though - whenever he had questions, he'd IM me instead of come into the office every 5 minutes like Jane does. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

On Wednesday, I saw something that will scar me for life. Stan had changed to go jogging and I guess he had to come into our office to tell us something before he left. I shudder now just thinking about it. He was wearing what looked like biker shorts and his legs are so freakin white. They're also skinny and the skin is a little wrinkly. EWWWW. I told Dante the next day that his legs look so much better than Stan's and he said, "Thanks for comparing my legs to a 60 year old white guy's."

Through the magic of TiVO, I'm watching All My Children again and that soap is far and away better than Days and Passions! The actors and actresses really know how to act on that show and the writers are also so much better. None of that people talking to themself shit.

My ringtone on my phone is "Rock Your Body" - JT of course... Dante has been getting that song in his head lately (he's been singing it) and he hasn't figured out why yet. He doesn't get the words right either. He keeps singing, "It's been so hard to walk away..." and I correct him every single time - "IT'S Don't be so quick to walk away... dance with me... I want to rock your body... please stay." Why do I get offended when he sings it wrong??

Today is the worst day ever... just been so irritated and pissed off this week and it came to a boil today. I don't function well when I'm pissed off. I scratched up my car at lunch today trying to find a parking space because Dante didn't leave me enough room in our long ass driveway to park behind him and he wasn't picking up his phone. I was driving through the back and the space is really narrow - I scratched it up bad... this is gonna end up costing me $1000, I just know it. Its taken me a long time to save to get my front bumper fixed from a previous accident and now this happens. I don't know what is wrong with me either... its not that time of month. Dante has been taking the brunt of my stress. Yesterday he had a huge headache and I was going off on him about something minor because I was pissed off from something else that happened with someone else earlier. I can't go into detail about what has been bothering me all week on the off-chance the person still has the address to this journal, so email me if you want to hear it... if you're a friend from college or a friend I've made recently, its not you :). Email me - I need advice on how to deal with it. Anyway, Dante was trying to make me feel better today (he knows what has been stressing me out and he wants to do something about it but I don't want him to be mean) and he offered to help me fix my car, but I just snapped at him, "Why do you even care about me?" I don't know where that came from and I feel so bad taking it out on him when he's trying to be nice. He has a BMW now named Bridget (I don't know why) and he considers my Audi (I named it Justin, what else? :)) Bridget's "boyfriend", so he says he has to take care of Justin too because Bridget can't be seen with someone bruised up. I guess I'm so not used to someone helping me out, I don't know how to deal with it when I do get help.

Anyway, about the other thing, I feel like a friend has been taking advantage of me recently and I don't know how to tell her to stop because I've been so nice in the past. You know how you're fine with a person and you overlook the little things but then when you decide you can't stand it anymore, every little thing starts bugging you? Thats the stage I'm at right now.

Steph and I were just talking about this yesterday - how some "friends" think because you have a job and you make money (however little that might be), they think you should pay for shit when you go out, just because. I think this friend thinks that because I let Dante live with me, I help him out with stuff, etc, that she should get the same advantages. She doesn't understand that its completely different when its a relationship (however screwed up that relationship might be at times). I work hard for my money (even though it may not seem like it at times) and I should be the one deciding how I spend that money! I want Dante to stay with me and that should be my decision.

Ugh, now that I think about it, I feel like a whole set of friends take advantage of me (still not you :))... I never had a problem with my college roommates re: money because it always evens out in the end. I pay for some shit, they pay for some shit... its not one-sided like it is with this set of friends. I'm always the one getting screwed! Anytime I go out with this friend, she only has a couple dollars so I always cover her for the rest ... "I'll get it next time." Is it next time yet?? Am I just being selfish??? Its my fault for always trying to be nice, for being a doormat and I don't know how to change things now. I just feel bad because I take my frustrations out on the wrong people sometimes.

I have to wait until my client gets here to sign some papers before I can go on lunch... I'm so sleepy right now.

24 is soooooooo good!! Steve and I were complaining last week that this season has been pretty boring but both of us have definitely changed our minds after last night's episode. This season had been BLAH to me because my favorite guy got shot and was in the hospital the last 3 weeks (the equivalent of 3 hours). He's back and damn, that was a good episode. At the end I must've yelled WHAT?? like 20 times at the screen. Thats the beauty of 24 though - you never know what to expect.

Whoohoo, Eileen has Ricola! I only had 2 cough drops (Fruit Breezers) left here at work and I had them both already... I'm waiting for a client to come in and sign some papers (single black director -gotta flirt :) too old for me though) and I don't want to start coughing. Anyways, I ran out of cough drops and Eileen gave me Ricola cough drops - love those things! Steph and I were just talking last night about how her friend ODed on Ricola in high school - I was laughing so hard.

A certain cross-town rival school got S-C-R-E-W-E-D this weekend... I feel for you guys, but what can you do? I'll put aside hating you guys for the month. It sucks. AND, how does a school lose their last game of the season by a blowout and still get to play for the championship game?? When UCLA was on track for the championship game back in 1999, we knew as soon as we lost against Miami (because of one stupid play by a back-up QB turned WR who plays for the Titans now), we didn't have a chance at the championship game.

I've been gathering more info about the CPA test... They let you take it in parts now! Back when I studied for it years ago, you had to take all four parts when you take the test and it was an 8 hour test over 2 days. Now, you can concentrate on one part, take that part of the test, study for a month for the next part, that that, etc... pass the test in stages. This means instead of studying my ass off for 5 months, I'd have to study hard over 8 months. It delays my Hawaii celebration trip a couple months but it'll be worth it. Since I already have my 2 years work experience, I'll be certified when I pass the test and pass this ethics exam. Then... CHA-CHING! By 2005, I should be making $18k more than I'm making right now.

NBA Suspends Malone for Elbowing Nash - I've gone from hating this guy for the past 11 years to loving and defending him... but seriously, that "elbow" he threw was just his regular game, I don't know why they made a big deal out of it. And the worst thing is, the game he is gonna be suspended for is Sunday, against UTAH! His former team. At least let the man play (and BEAT) his former team!!

I was just getting better from my cold recently, but I feel worse tonight. Stupid Dante was making me laugh so hard, I used all my energy and now my throat is sore again. We were listening to the radio in the car and because we watch way too much MTV Jams (the ONLY "Music TeleVision" channel that actually plays freakin music videos), he was lip-syncing along to the songs and acting out what the singers in the videos do... No Doubt's It's My Life - he was doing the Gwen Stefani thing, crying to the cameras and all. Jessica Simpson's With You - trying to act all cute for the camera; there's a part where she's just lying on the floor singing so he sinks down in his seat to where he's lying on it, lip syncing and swinging his legs back and forth every once in a while. Argh, I feel all light headed from laughing so much.

Tonight's What Not to Wear... they're making over an actor/director who wears way too much high school, college shirts; tank tops that show too much of his armpits; sporty clothes even though he doesn't play sports, etc. He even surprises the hosts with a Wonder Woman outfit when they open the fitting room door to critique him. Stacy and Clinton throw all these things out and send him out shopping so he goes to FCUK and buys all these shirts that say FCUK High School, FCUK University, Inter-course Activities FCUK Polytechnic... he did clean up nice though.

My last day of the holiday weekend and I spend it sleeping because I'm sick. Dante has been sick the last two weeks and I've been fine but then I go home for Thanksgiving and my brother gets me sick in the 4 hours I was home that day. I have a ton of cleaning to do and I have to buy a vacuum and I have to do laundry but this has been the most unproductive weekend in a long time.

At least I didn't waste the entire weekend... I've decided what direction I'm gonna take in terms of my career. Law school or any kind of grad school is gonna be another 2-3 years of pain and suffering so I decided I might as well study my ass off for the next 6 months and take my CPA exam, get certified and move on from there. Its gonna be hard though - I haven't picked up a book and studied since December 2000. Oh well, I need to do something with my life.

Here's something to ponder... how badly are my football teams gonna get their asses whooped this weekend?? UCLA is playing USC and the Raiders are playing the KC Chiefs... USC is trying to get into the championship game and KC is mad because they lost their first game of the season last week. I don't hate KC though - they have the cutest team in the league (Tony Gonzalez, Johnnie Morton and Trent Green) and if I wasn't a Raiders fan, thats usually who I would root for. Yes, I know Tony Gonzalez was a Bear and Johnnie Morton was a Trojan and I hated them in college, like a good Bruin had to.

My friend sent me one of those "inspirational" emails:

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, when you just HAVE TO get that next task done, remember the mayonnaise jar........and the beer!

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes." The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favorite passions--things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else--the small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house, and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand." One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers."

Enough inspirational crap. These Demotivators are awesome! Check out their collection. I love Procrastination, Stupidity, Mediocrity, Failure, Humiliation, Risks, Goals, and Potential... they're all good though. Man, my attitude sucks. I make a terrible employee.

I updated my 100 things about me. Mostly just the same crap though so don't expect anything major.

I feel like something has been taken away from me, I feel so lost and alone. Dante borrowed my Justified CD today and I don't know what to listen to now. I have 6 CDs in my CD changer and I don't like anything as much as I liked that CD. Steph gave me the CD so many months ago and thats all I've listened to in my car since. Tyrese, Nick Lachey, Justin Guarini, 80s music and some mixed CDs don't cut it like Justin Timberlake does. He offered me his Jay-Z The Black Album but I'm still suffering from Justin withdrawal. I guess I deserve this though - I've been telling Dante how good Justified was and he's been ridiculing me about it for so long. He borrowed my car this morning to go to court in Lancaster (his new used BMW is in the shop because he scratched it up backing it into our parking space while trying to look cute for some girl yesterday - serves him right) and I guess he listened to that CD the whole way there and the whole way back. He had other CDs in my changer but apparently Justified was that good. He's embarassed he likes it, but its not as bad as him dubbing my Justin Guarini CD. :)

If this is true - Britney mocks Justin's size - then I lost all the sympathy I had for Britney Spears she gained from crying on PrimeTime Live last week.

Big PHEW on 24. I hope.

TIP: Never eat Berry Blue Jell-O at 3am... no matter how much you're craving it. You'll wake up with a stomachache so bad even a good #2 won't help. Maybe thats just me.

We hear the playback and it seems so long ago 80's lyrics quiz!! I found a link to this on jozjozjoz.com... I had to post this tonight so Steph would have something to do first thing in the morning. :)

Baron Davis was on MTV Cribs tonight... his house is just ok, but I think that's because he lives in New Orleans and that's what the houses look like there.

I finally found another American Eagle Sheer T I like. They had awesome ones earlier this year but their shirts have sucked recently. I don't know what happened to my favorite shirt - the light pink Philly Chinatown sheer T. I still think Dante accidentally took it when he was sorting my laundry from his (before he moved in again) but he says he didn't. I wouldn't be pissed if I could go back to American Eagle and buy another one to replace it but they don't have it anymore. :( I don't even think the Westside Pavilion one had it in the first place because I bought it at the Main Place store in Santa Ana.

I want to go to American Eagle at lunch today but I have to go home so I can TiVo Oprah... she's going to Costco for the first time. Can you believe that? Being so rich you've never been to Costco or Target?? I've always said, if I win the lotto, I'd be the same person, except with a house and a nicer car. I'd still work (except I wouldn't have the pressure of earning a living so I can do whatever I feel like doing), I'd still clip coupons (and I'd still forget to use them), I'd still head to the discount racks at whatever clothing stores... Didn't Oprah have to save at one time in her life? She's a self made millionaire (billionaire) so its not like she had everything handed to her.

Arnold's inauguration better be on time because I set TiVo for 11am.

I found another cute music video boy but I like my first music video boy better. Its the Lumidee feat. Busta Rhymes and Fabolous - Never Leave You video. The boy isn't as cute as the first music video boy but there's just something about him. Nick Cannon is hot too :).

Who wants to go see Elf with me?? I love Will Ferrell and that movie beat the Matrix and Russell Crowe's new movie. Last week, Jon Stewart was already calling it the #1 movie in the country because "The Matrix blowwwws". Will was on TRL too and they asked him what he thought about having to wear tights around NY for an entire movie. He said something like "when you have a body like this, you gotta."

Scrubs is the funniest show ever - Carla found out her brother did speak English and she asked him, "did you hear me talking about being on the pill?" He said no and she said, "I was just kidding. I'm not on the pill. I've never had sex. I hope it's fun!"

Holy Shit that was a good episode of 24!! TiVo paid off majorly for me tonight because I had all these distractions around my apartment and normally I woulda gotten annoyed because I would have had to wait until the DVD came out to watch it again, but because of TiVo, I just paused, rewound, watched from the beginning, fast forwarded through the commercials, and finished the episode at 11:15. I love my TiVo.

There were two major OH SHIT moments during the episode. So goooood!!! The second OH SHIT moment got me depressed but its just 24 being 24. You NEVER know whats gonna happen.

I got a new TV this weekend to go along with my TiVo - its a flat screen one from Costco and I've just been watching regular cable TV so far. I just put in the True Lies DVD and the quality is AMAZING! My old TV sucked ass. Whenever I watched Laker games, I couldn't see the score on the bottom of the screen. I get this new TV and I realize the score is a freakin inch above the bottom of the screen.

Heehee, this is great - I can watch an entire hour of Passions in 15 minutes... by fast forwarding though all the crappy scenes. Wait a sec - Why is it even taking me 15 minutes?? There is a huge difference in quality between the three soaps I watch sometimes. All My Children is the best, with real actors and shit. Days is ok, but it takes a while to move story lines along. Passions is totally crap. Yeah, I don't know why I watch it. I'm watching yesterday's episode of the Daily Show right now and I'm cracking up over Stephen Colbert's correspondent report. He's "in England" reporting on the Prince Charles scandal and he says slander laws prevent him from saying what he found out but he's using hand gestures and he just took a huge bite of a banana :).

I like this assistant so far. He instant messages me when he has questions and that just saves us so much time and hassle. I think this is the first time I've ever used AIM for work purposes and its great. Eileen is on AIM too but we only use it to say things we don't want anyone else to hear. Stan already complains that we talk too much in our office.

Will Ferrell is eating a banana now!!! Oh my god, I love the Daily Show.

From Justin to Lawsuit - $100,000 for a rear-ender?? Some people are just so freakin greedy and they don't want to work for their money. They have so much nerve! Poor Justin Guarini, can't seem to stay out of trouble...

The new guy started today... he seems pretty good so far. Not butt ugly either. He had the same last name as this ugly fat gross guy who liked me in junior high and all I can say is, phew. He knows English! Whoohoo! Never take that for granted - an assistant who can speak/write English.

TIVO BABY!!! I've finally joined the cult after talking about getting one for so long! (Nozomi says I've been talking about it for YEARS but I don't think its been that long.)

As with everything in my life, it was harder for me to set up the TiVo than it is for 'normal' people. First off, I don't have a phone line at home so I didn't think I could even get it in the first place, but I mentioned that to Steph, she said her co-worker had TiVo and she didn't have an apartment line - you use this USB network thing to connect TiVo through your cable modem (which I have). I called TiVo support yesterday after I bought it and they told me I'd have to pay an extra $99 to use the network connection... they're so full of shit... the web site says you don't need to buy that option. (I haven't tried it yet to see if what I did works). I had to go to Amy's apartment last night to do the initial set-up using her phone line and I couldn't disconnect that thing for 4-8 hours so I just left it there and picked it up this morning. I played with it a little this morning too - by now, TiVo shoulda taped The Daily Show (repeat) and when I get home, All My Children, Days and Passions shoulda been taped. (Not that I'm gonna watch all those crappy soaps, I just like having the option to).

Lakers game tonight - forgot to have TiVo tape it but thats ok - I get off work at 6:00 and I get home at 6:05 so the only thing I might miss is a couple of starting introductions. I can't wait to use my Live TV replay when I watch the game! New Orleans is my second favorite team - I love Baron Davis but I gotta root against him tonight. So glad he's doing well in the NBA.

I'm glad it rained yesterday because I was feeling jipped from Friday. I had my car parked in my spot at the apartment and when I went to my car on Sunday, half the car was spotless clean (from the rain) and the other half was dirty (I don't have any awning, etc... the building covers half my car). On Sunday night, the building next door to me ran their sprinklers or something so when I got to my car Monday morning, a quarter of my car was wet, so that left me with only a quarter of my car completely spotless clean :). I need to clean out my car anyway. My mom was gonna get me a new TV last weekend when we went to Costco but she said I needed to clean out my car first so we can fit the TV in there. Yes, I am a spoiled brat.

I'm not looking for a new car because I love mine but Dante saw this last week on recycler.com - a 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK 55 AMG on sale for $15,000... It's silver (the best color ever!), it has a clean title, 30,000 miles, excellent condition, fully loaded, etc... AMGs are amazing and this car brand new would go for more than $60,000. He decided to call the guy about it yesterday to ask him why he was selling it so cheap and the guy told him it was sold already but it was so cheap because he just inherited $290 million and he needed to give this car away. My lease on my Audi is up next year and I woulda done whatever I had to to get this car if Dante had told me about it earlier. (If all else fails... Mommy!! :)) No one in our family ever buys used cars though but my Audi wasn't new when I got it - I just took over my sister's lease because she leased a BMW X5. She was paying both payments and the Audi was just sitting in the garage. I hate leases because you're paying all that money for a car you'll have to give back in a couple years and you're limited on what you can do with it (mileage wise, etc). I would love to keep my current car after this lease though, if I can afford to. At the very least, I coulda bought that CLK from the guy and sold it for twice what I paid and I could use the profit to pay off the Audi and everyone woulda been happy! :) Oh well.

This is a prime example of how the rich get richer. One of my clients has been directing a couple of episodes of a sitcom this season. The star of the sitcom has been sick for 7-8 days and the DGA stipulates a per diem of $3,500 a day... that means my client gets $28,000 PLUS the $25,000 directing fees. Must be nice.

Alright. Who wants to run in the next marathon with me?? Yeah, stop laughing. Isn't running a marathon one of those life changing events? If you can run a marathon, you can do anything in your life. Is that true or have I been watching too much "inspirational" TV? Diddy is doing it, I think Ozzy did it last season, Oprah did it...

On second thought, I don't think I'll do able to run the 26 miles... I can't even get my ass to the gym :) heehee.

Steve - I'm serious about the skydiving though... Let me know where/when and I'll do it!

I don't think I'm going to the gym tonight... just watching P. Diddy train for his marathon on MTV while eating my Taco Bell is making me exhausted. Say what you want about the man, but he's hard working and successful.

BULLETIN: I'm getting closer to going to the gym. I was going to go the last two nights but it hasn't worked out. Tuesday night I finished watching the game and it was too late... last night I just fell asleep after the OC. My New Years Resolution totally went to waste - don't ask me why I couldn't keep it (going to the gym at least once a month). I think I'll go tonight (for the first time since June I think) because sweeps month is starting on Saturday. I'm planning 10pm because of Friends and Scrubs. Why did they stick Will & Grace in between those two shows?? Just drags out the night. Oh - and for those of you who missed it, they're replaying 24 at 9pm. (Usually Eileen and I check the listings sometime in the afternoon but we're super bored today). I lost my 24 Hour Fitness card though... I wonder if I can just have them mail me a new one.

Sex and the City 8:30p repeat was exactly what I was talking about yesterday - letting someone help you out. It really is wonderful to not have to do everything yourself but no one is as dependable as yourself. Carrie got mad at Aidan because he BOUGHT her a new computer after hers crashed. I think Carrie has problems but I see her point there... she's so used to depending on herself that she doesn't want anyone else's help because what happens when you start depending on them and they can't be there for you or the relationship breaks apart?

I need a boyfriend like Jon Stewart. He's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week (I 'borrowed' it from the receptionist area last night). He's smart, funny, hard-working; he knows what's going on; he can talk politics and pop culture... and he's cute enough. This is the exact line from the article: ... the kind of guy who's smarter than you but doesn't rub it in your face; the kind of guy who drops references to Wilford Brimley and The Breakfast Club into conversation, yet talks intelligently with Henry Kissinger; and the kind of guy who's become the media elite's It Boy, but still identifies with Revenge of the Nerds. I know plenty of smart guys who just don't 'get it', and I know dumb guys who are... just dumb. :)

All these superstars on the Lakers and my favorite one is... Rick Fox! Just like me to go with the pretty boy. Will that be the starting 5 when Rick comes back from his injury?? The game was fun to watch but I missed the part where Kobe came out to the bench at the end of the 3rd quarter because I was watching 24. I never thought I'd like Karl Malone but I was so happy to see him get a standing ovation when he left the game in the 4th quarter. Gary Payton got one too (deservedly).

Supposedly Shaq and Kobe are cool now. Last season it was Rick and Derek who took it upon themselves to keep peace on the team but now they have Karl and Gary to help. If I were Rick or Derek, I'd feel so relieved that it wasn't on my shoulder to keep the team together. It always helps to distribute the work around, especially when you have two other superstars taking on the brunt of the work. Shaq and Kobe might not listen to you but they HAVE to listen to Karl and Gary. I'm so used to doing everything by myself in my life that when I do get help, I appreciate it so much more... like doing laundry or going grocery shopping with Dante - so nice to have someone else carry the heavy stuff :). My parents don't know English too well so I'm usually stuck trying to translate (so tough, especially cause I barely know Taiwanese) but when my siblings are around, I feel better because the pressure is taken off me.

This is my first time watching 24 during the season and I can't believe I have to wait a whole week til the next hour!! Awww - Tony and Michelle are married :)... they make such a cute couple. Tony is my favorite guy on that show. And the bad guy so far this season (Salazar) is the guy in Only You (Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.) who was trying to get with Bonnie Hunt. I've watched that movie way too many times! Anyways, season looks good but I'm trying to figure out what next year's plot will be - they've already covered assassination, nuclear bomb and bio-weapons...

The Sex and the City rerun on right now is about defining relationships! This is the episode where Miranda's boyfriend pees in front of her and Samantha first meets her lesbian lover. Charlotte is trying to define her relationship with her estranged husband/boyfriend/lover and Carrie is hanging out with Mr. Big again. I think thats what my relationship with Dante is like - Carrie and Mr. Big. We're not boyfriend/girlfriend anymore ... we're friends who have fun hanging out together but because of our past, we're more than friends (?). I don't even know. The relationship is undefinable. Oh - and you guys are gonna kick my ass (I deserve it) but he's moved in again. Don't know how long its gonna last this time but this is the last time I (sorta) promise!

Oooh! The last line of the episode - "So thats it. What ultimately defines a relationship is another relationship." A lot to think about. I think that if I find another guy I really like, Dante would be out of my life. I told him that once too... "I've always thought that if I start dating someone else, they'd have to get used to you having a big part in my life. But, I started thinking - if I date Justin Guarini, he's so lighthearted and easy going, I wouldn't want to hurt him like that. I probably couldn't talk to you anymore." This was after I watched American Idol 1 the Bonus Disc - A Day in the Life of Justin - and he seems so goofy... that gets me every single time. Of course this led to Dante making fun of me and telling my friends I said that, but still!

ESPN.com - 'Passing' comment restarts Shaq-Kobe feud - oh give me a break! It's probably the media making too much of nothing, but if there was really a feud, I'd probably take Shaq's side - his personality definitely makes him more likeable.

The first game of the season is Tuesday night... I'll watch the first hour and a half but after that, I'm out. I hope Dante isn't around Tuesday night because he'll want to finish the game but it's my TV, my choice. The 24 season 3 premiere is on (without commercial interruption) and I'm not gonna miss that! Someone tape it for me just in case, please :). Thats what I hate about digital cable - you can't watch one thing and tape another.

Oh my god, yesterday was my one-year anniversary for this journal! Being a true Gemini, I hardly ever stick to anything that long. Yay me.

And yay, extra hour tonight so I can finish an extra hour of 24. I should be done with Season 2 tonight.

I can't believe I just wasted a couple hours watching The OC marathon on FX. Why am I hooked on this show?? There are so many things that annoy me about it and the actors aren't that great or good looking. I have so much cleaning to do too! Oh well.

I had a total Office Space moment yesterday - "Umm, I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow..." He might have even had a coffee cup in his hand, I don't remember.

So here I am at this crappy office on Saturday. I don't mind though because I need the overtime.

Oh - by the way, dumb assistant left a week ago because she said she had a long commute and she wasn't learning anything here... boohooo. If she had an IQ above 10, we coulda taught her something. Eileen was the one giving her all the work. I do everything myself because I need things done perfect. If I do assign her anything, she'd give me the work with a ton of spelling errors and a messy layout. The assistant's job is basically deposits (the thing she fucks up the least on), disbursements (paying the bills - sometimes she can't distinguish between business and personal expenses and she pays them from the wrong account), bank reconciliations (oh my god, let me tell you how many times she messes these things up!! she's messed up the software for a couple clients), some financial statements (I redo them because of all the spelling errors and messy layouts) and filing (she can't even do this right). Add this to the fact she was always sick or late. Stan always took up for her though - she's sick, she's got some stomach problems (we think its all in her head) - and he gets on our case for little shit (being 10 minutes late, etc). Eileen and I are glad she's gone and we don't have to deal with a liability in the office.

So I go over to the assistant's desk to see what needs to be done. She didn't do the investment statements filing for the last two months!! And she kept asking us for work to do because she "had nothing to do"!! She made no secret of the fact she hated filing, but that's what I had to do when I had her position and that's what Asher did when he had that position and you never heard either of us complaining. Duh, who the hell LIKES filing?? It's part of the job when you don't have experience. There were so many times she came to me and she told me she couldn't find a file, and I look where she was looking and I pull up the file instantly. She doesn't file chronologically either and sometimes she'd just stick the papers for a whole bunch of clients into one file.

My knees are still bruised from 3 weeks ago when I tripped and fell (stupid shoes!! the price of fashion) so everytime I kneel down to get to a low filing drawer, I'm in pain. Oh well. I need to get new shoes though. I've almost fell a couple times since then.

4 more hours of 24 to go!

Speed was on the other night and I watched about 3 minutes of it before I had to turn it off. I loved that movie so much when I was in high school but there is no comparison to 24. I was comfortable in bed already and I didn't want to get up so I was flipping channels and Speed was the only decent thing on. It bothered me so much that I got out of bed to find my DVD player remote so I could finish another hour of 24. (I have 8 more hours to go!) I thought Keanu Reeves was the cutest thing ever back then but now I prefer Kiefer Sutherland to Keanu. This one episode actually had me crying! TV never does that to me.

It was nice to see Kobe back on the court last night but his legs are like toothpicks now. He is s-k-i-n-n-y!!!Understandable though... I am 99% sure he'll be acquitted but you never know what will happen. Sometimes even when I am 100% sure about an answer and someone starts questioning me about it, I start to get doubts. This is his life at stake too, not some stupid test that has no bearing on your life in a year or two.

So much has happened this week at the office. A couple months ago, a client called and said she thought one of her employees (W) was stealing money from her (when W bought toys for the client's kids on the client's credit card, she'd also pick up a couple things for her own kids and charge it to the card). (See the August 25th entry) We thought we got that resolved back then, and the client kept W as an employee, don't know why. W has a sister (M) who has worked for the client for a couple years and who the client absolutely adores. The client hired W and M's husband because of M. M is a maid and she makes more than 1.5 x my salary. (She barely speaks English and she makes more than me!!) M has a charge card in her name so she can purchase groceries for the house, toys for the kids, etc. The client set up this thing for M so that if the client dies, M gets $15,000/yr to take care of the client's dog. M is substitute trustee on the client's will if the client's brother dies. We thought M was the good sis. :)... you can see where this is going.

The client calls us on Monday and says $20,000 cash is missing from her safe and she thinks it might be M. We agree we need proof before we can do anything. Oh yeah, and last week M requested 2 months advance salary so she can put money down on a new house. We gave her the check on Friday (before everything happened) and I guess it was too late for her to cash it at the bank. (Why you would cash a check that large instead of depositing the check in your bank account is beyond me). The client asked Eileen to stall M from cashing the check because she wanted to be sure and she didn't want M to get suspicious. The nanny cam is set up that day. On Tuesday, the client calls and says she caught M stealing from the safe on the nanny cam. Apparently, the client wrote down her safe combination somewhere and M somehow found it. The client called the cops and they're gonna arrest her on Thursday (Eileen and I were sitting by, waiting for the action, and we were mad that they were waiting that long). All day Tuesday and Wednesday, M is calling Eileen every hour to ask when she can cash her check because she really needs the money and Eileen comes up with bullshit stories like there is no money in the account, we're switching banks, we're just gonna wire the money into your account, the messenger will give you the cash instead... I swear, we got new relevations everyday. Eileen figured M really didn't buy a house because M kept coming up with bullshit excuses why she couldn't fax over the escrow papers. Then, the client's brother says his stepson told him he saw M and her husband smoking crack behind the house (I don't know how long ago that was). We think they need that money for drugs and because I watch too much TV/movies, I came up with: M needs the money to pay off a drug dealer before a certain deadline or the drug dealer is gonna have her killed. When Eileen was analyzing the checks that M wrote (the client took away M's credit card after W was caught stealing and she added M to a household checking account), she realized Wednesday was M's birthday. Maybe thats why the client wanted to wait til Thursday for M to be arrested. Eileen and I didn't do any work on Thursday because we were waiting til 5:00 hit because thats when the detective was gonna show up. Eileen and the nephew were supposed to make sure M was at the house then. Eileen was trying to figure out why M didn't call her to bug her about the check at all Thursday. M waited an hour to call Eileen back too. 5:00 came and we didn't hear anything from the house... at 7:00, the client's personal assistant calls Eileen and tells her nothing happened. M confessed, said she was sending the money to her dad in Guatemala, etc and the personal assistant was supposed to take M to the police station the next day because the client didn't want to have M arrested in front of her kids. We were disappointed - we wanted more action! M was even spending the night at the client's place. I don't know about the client, but I would not feel comfortable sleeping in a house with a thief. Today we find out that M found a copy of the police report that day and she called the police earlier on Thursday telling them that the nephew had a gun and was threatening her (which was total bullshit). The Malibu police were over there and I guess they determined nothing happened. I don't know why the client didn't know the police were over there until this morning but when she found out, she had the cops come arrest M right away... forget not wanting to do it in front of the kids. The client now thinks that M stole some of her (dead) mother's jewelry also. Geez!

I Love the 80's Strikes Back is on. I don't know how this is different from I Love the 80s though, just new material. Nick Lachey is a comment-er! Did his album ever come out?? I should buy it just to support him because I feel sorry for him. Anyways, I love this show! I never watched I Love the 70s because I don't know anything about that era and I wouldn't be able to relate. They're talking about Field of Dreams right now - "If you build it, they will come." Our high school went through a whole Kevin Costner phase because he's a VPHS alum. I had a some football coach/health teacher who would just bring in Kevin Costner movies when he didn't have any material planned (which was often) and then he would point out some short bald chubby white extra in all the movies and say that was him.

Richard Marx!! Heehee, "Right Here Waiting". Oh my god, I love this show.

Whoohoo! I have a clean car! My car looks so awesome when its clean. I had been holding off on taking it to the car wash the past 3 days because even though I have a coupon for a wash for $6.99, it's $1 more on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. I can't believe I'm cheap like this (been hanging around with Mike too long!) and I just spent $10 on the lottery. Totally throwing money away! Oh well. The CA lotto is $92 mil and Powerball is $162 mil. I'm buying $10 in tickets ($5 for Mike) in the CA lotto and Mike is going to throw in $5 extra for me in Powerball.

Damn Raiders. Thats all I gotta say. Philip Buchanan, I'm looking at you. So pissed.

I've never had so much "fun" vacuuming!! Dante broke my vacuum (big surprise, he breaks everything) so I borrowed my mom's vacuum last week. The thing has this dirt sensor and I spent the whole time just staring at that thing. I tried tricking it too, vacuuming corners we don't go in, but it stays green. Then I go to the desk area and of course I get massive levels of red. The carpet in front of the mirror also has massive levels of red too - Dante has to look at himself in the mirror at least four times a day. I'm embarrassed to let people know how dirty I am but I spent forty minutes vacuuming the living room. We have no furniture in there because my roommate and I are both broke so no one spends any time in there (except to walk to the kitchen) and we don't bother vacuuming it. I just saw that vacuum in the Sears ad though - I can't believe my mom paid $250 for a vacuum!!

I am the biggest dumbass! I went to Costco today for my mom and she wanted me to buy a lot of stuff so I took her car instead of mine. My trunk is filled with so much junk and I didn't feel like cleaning it out. It's hot as hell today too... I finished putting the things in her trunk and I just slammed the trunk shut. Then I realized, oh shit! The keys are in the trunk!! In my car that wouldn't be a problem because I just push this thing on the trunk and it opens, I don't need a key after I unlock the car. I had unlocked the car before I opened the trunk but because I didn't open the doors and start the car, the doors locked automatically (I thought I could open the door and just pop the trunk). Thank god my cell phone was in my pocket! I called my brother and had him pick up the extra keys from my mom and bring them to me... then I got home, opened the trunk to unload the stuff and I slam the trunk shut with the extra keys also in there! This time, I hadn't locked the car so I popped the trunk open. I appreciate my car so much more now.

Only finished 8 hours of 24 this weekend... 16 more to go before October 28th!

Best show ever!!

My plans for the weekend - clean the kitchen, vacuum my room, and watch as much 24 Season 2 as I can before the new season starts in less than 2 weeks... oh my god, I'm only on hour 4 but this might even be better than the first season!

Ok, search thing works but it only directs you to the right archive page and then you can do a browser search (Ctrl+F, Find on this page thing) from there. That is, if you care that much :)... and the permanent links didn't work so I'm deleting them.

Just spent the last two hours adding things to my blog... a comments thing, permanent links and a search box (the search probably won't work yet because I'm too broke to pay for the service so they make you wait until they're finished with the priority people). I'll probably get rid of the 'tagboard' at some point because I'm tired of seeing that huge gap at the top of my template... if I knew anything about html, I'd be able to fix it. Thank god blogdesigns (the place I found this template) made it so simple for me. I have no idea what java is even though thats what this page is written in. I heard about it back when I was taking computer programming classes (I took two my freshman year - we learned Borland C++, does anyone use that anymore? did anyone use that in the first place? what is it even for??) and now, 7 years later, I play around with templates for this journal and I see CSS, RSS, XML... huh?? I feel so behind.

I haven't watched any of the baseball playoffs (I don't every year because the Dodgers either don't make it at all or they're out in the first round) but I wanna say, yay Aaron Boone! He hit the home run in the 11th inning to win the game and the series for the Yankees. Another Villa Park High School grad (he graduated a year before I started high school)... and this one doesn't suck. :) (Not that I'm implying anything Mr. Chenowith :) heehee. I'm just kidding - but I remember how he played his freshman year in high school and I can't get that out of my head.) Aaron has another brother who went to my high school when I was there - Matt Boone. I vaguely remember what he looks like but I remember thinking he was cute in high school. He'll be in the major leagues soon enough - he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the draft. Of course, people know their dad Bob and their other brother Bret...

ESPN.com - Lawyers say Kobe's team made strong case - he is soooooooooo gonna walk! The judge will definitely send the case to trial (because they just do) but Kobe will be acquitted. I don't know why they're going to waste millions of dollars on a trial when there is so much doubt (no jury is going to convict a guy of something this huge when it comes down to a he said/she said with suspect evidence). I guess with the media, et.al., it brings Colorado millions in revenue? Anyway, how dirty/dumb do you have to be to wear 'dirty' underwear (one from a previous night you did it with someone else) to a rape exam?? Thats just gross.

screencaps from breny.com (Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Simpson, Omeletteville, Michael Bolton)

Last week was the first time I watched Saturday Night Live since the 2000 elections and JT was awesome on it... just makes me like him more. He did a punk'd episode as Ashton Kutcher and in the end, he signed off with "I'm Ashton! I'm AWESOME! and I love Justin Timberlake!" I love him in an omelette costume too - he started singing and dancing "I'm a slave for you... bring it on in to Omeletteville!" Oh, and by the way, you know I watch too much Newlyweds if I know Jimmy Fallon has the tattoo on the wrong arm.

Watching SNL is weird for me now - I can't imagine SNL without Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, Chris Kattan, Ana Gasteyer... thank god Darrell Hammond is still on. I loved Will Ferrell's Bush impressions, the Spartan cheerleaders and Celebrity Jeopardy!

I took last Friday off work to do some errands and I can't tell you how happy I was to finally have an extra day off. I got so much done on Saturday. Did my laundry, cleaned my walk-in closet out (who needs a million and one Target bags sitting in the closet just in case I need a trash bag?) and hung up all my clean clothes in the closet. My closet hasn't been that clean since the day I moved in! I set up the laundry sorter bags so now I can just sort clothes everyday instead of trying to do 2 weeks worth of clothes for 2 people right before I go to the laundromat. I was so happy about the clean closet I spent part of the weekend sitting at my desk with the closet light on and the door open so I can admire my handiwork.

So someone broke out of jail at a maximum security prison in Pennsylvania. I thought stuff like this only happened in movies! Hollywood has desensitized us to everything. When my brother was in the accident and the car flipped over, he and his friend ran from the car cause they thought it would explode (like it ALWAYS happens in the movies). Breaking out of prison is a goal in most movies and in 99% of the movies, the inmate is successful doing so. We even root for them to do so!

Steph and I were talking about something else that always happens in TV/movies/commercials - meeting guys at the grocery store. Of course, most of the time the guys aren't losers but "Hollywood is make-believe". Last week I went to Ralphs and Albertsons on consecutive nights and both days I had changed out of my work attire into American Eagle jeans (I tell ya, these are "magical jeans"!! the super low rise flare AE Downtown Hipster jeans... everytime I wear these, guys are always staring :)) I went to Ralphs by myself and this guy who worked there was stocking but also following me around and finally I just stopped shopping and talked to him. Thank god they'd get in trouble if they ask for your number or give you their number when they're on the job! He said he's a dancer and he's supposedly in this show thats gonna be on HBO soon. The next night I went to Albertsons with Dante and even though this guy knew I was with Dante, he was smiling at me and trying to talk to me when Dante turned his back. He was cute though, if I wasn't with Dante that night, I would've talked to him. Forget the clubs I guess, the supermarkets are where its at! :)

Even with all the details released about Kobe and the "incident", I still think he's gonna walk. We've only heard her side of the story and now they're saying that there were 2 men's sperm found on her underwear. What is up with that?? Kobe's attorneys are the best there is in Colorado (hiring Johnnie Cochran wouldn't have looked good in that small town in Colorado) and they know what they're doing. Good defense attorneys are worth every penny they're being paid. Aside from the obvious OJ case, the attorneys I worked for before got John DeLorean off drug charges based on government conspiracy! Anyway, the prosecution's case couldn't have been all that solid if the DA waited two weeks to file charges and had to call people all over the country to get their advice. He is in WAY over his head.

Eileen and I were just talking about how there are no other major newspapers in LA but the LA Times. No surprise, but I hate the LA Times. They not only define the "liberal bias" in newsreporting (the Arnold thing was just the most recent case) but they've been the cause of so many UCLA sports scandals in recent memory. They were the ones that came out with the Baron Davis SUV story (nothing ever became of it except a lot of bad press I think... might have led to Jim Harrick's firing), they "broke" the UCLA football players - handicapped permits scandal, and they ruined DeShaun Foster's senior season. My client was the one who "lent" DeShaun the Expedition... he's not an agent!! He's just an actor/director. Anyway, if I didn't love ads and coupons so much I would've cancelled my LA Times (Sunday) subscription also.

"I voted for the winner. Congratulations to Arnold. Hopefully he does a good job. I had dream one time that Arnold was governor, Magic (Johnson) was mayor and I was sheriff. Only in L.A." � Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal, reacting to the results before the team's first exhibition game in Hawaii.

I just finished watching the game tonight and halfway through the game I thought I recognized the white guy sitting next to Shaq on the bench... I thought about it, ran through all the tall white basketball players I could think of - that's not Mark Madsen, we didn't get Shawn Bradley, I thought we got rid of Travis Knight... Then I remembered - that player that never smiled was Eric Chenowith!! I went to high school with the guy! VP represent. He played at U. Kansas and I remember him getting drafted but I thought he didn't make it.

Some other observations: I thought #5 looked kinda cute but he'll never replace Rick Fox in my heart. Karl Malone does play dirty. It was NICE seeing Shaq, Karl and Gary on the court. I still can't believe thats our starting lineup for the year. Kobe, Shaq, Karl, Gary and some random player (throw me in there)... you can't double team 4 players on the court! This is gonna be a fun season.

Anyway, bedtime. Great day today. Don't know why, but started feeling sorry for Gray Davis. Happy we have the Governator now though.

Wow - Jordan could get the call to replace Kobe. MTV Cribs was good last night - Shaq has so much personality. His bed is 15 feet long and 30 feet wide and circular!! Thats bigger than my room! And he told the camera, "I'll be watching MTV Cribs and if anyone tries to get a bigger bed than me, I'm warning you. I have room to make it bigger!" Their bathroom is about the size of my apartment. His wife looks like she is good for him. Sometimes you look at a couple and you think that one person is dragging the other person down but she looks like she is successful on her own and she just makes him better.

Trading Spaces: $100 Grand last week was amazing. I don't know if I can watch a regular show again. Doug's kitchen/dining room/living room looked straight out of a home magazine. Laurie's room was good too but you could tell she was just buying really expensive things to fill her room (a $2800 arm chair that didn't look that great, $1800 for some ugly small circular mirrors from hundreds of years ago). Sony donated plasma screens, DVD players, entertainment systems and laptops so those didn't come out of the budget and I think the homeowners said later that Banyan Productions even paid their gift taxes. How lucky can you get? What would you do with $50,000 to redecorate a room?? I woulda liked to see Vern do a $50 grand room instead of Laurie.

I was watching Tough Crowd or something like that (the Colin Quinn show on after the Daily Show) and they had Stephen Colbert (from the Daily Show on)... Colin asked them how they would declare their candidacies for office and Stephen said something like, "I would become a huge movie star, marry someone famous, declare my candidacy on a late night talk show ... and three days before the election, I would cure cancer." How can you not win on that?? Like I said, if Gray Davis and his people find Saddam or Osama, I'd vote for him.

I've gotta watch the Daily Show tonight. With this kind of material, Jon is gonna be amazing. I was on the Daily Show website and the downloadables are great - they have a wallpaper "The Iraq War Finals" set up like a March Madness bracket and they have a wallpaper where you can sit at your desk and stare at Jon sitting at his desk staring at you.

The Siegfried and Roy tiger attack was seriously scary!! See why I'm afraid of animals? Yeah, a 600 pound tiger is different from a little chihuahua but you know where I'm coming from right?

Can't wait til tomorrow... the first Lakers preseason game!! Oh, and the recall :). I miss watching my boys out there on the court and I'm excited now that Karl and Gary joined the team. (Mike says I sold out now because I don't hate Karl Malone anymore). Too bad Rick Fox is out til January and Kobe has all that stuff going on.

There was a long article on Kobe in Newsweek this week - pretty interesting and it points out a lot of stuff that I'm sure a lot of people didn't know. Poor guy - he has all the skills in the world but he doesn't have street smarts or social skills. He had a girlfriend when he asked Brandy to prom (he told the girlfriend his agent wanted him to do that). Brandy didn't know who he was but she thought he was kinda cute and she wanted to go to a prom so she said ok. When he moved out here, his parents and Brandy's parents tried to get them together but he was too boring for her. It mentions he liked Beyonce, Kelly Rowlands, Venus Williams, and Tyra Banks but then he met Vanessa. Everyone was against him going out with Vanessa cause she was too young and uncultured compared to the other successful women he romanced in the past but he wouldn't listen, he wanted to get married against everyone's wishes, didn't want a prenup either. Michael Jordan and some other NBA players called him and told him to at least get a prenup (when Michael Jordan calls, YOU LISTEN!). Anyway, the article covers way more (it was a gooooooood article!) but the thing that shocked the hell out of me was it said he went to go see a divorce lawyer in March and when Vanessa found out about the meeting, she had to be taken to the hospital. I've heard some pretty messed up things about their relationship from other sources - most likely rumors though - he paid off all the debt her family was in, bought them a lot of stuff, etc... James told me he heard on the sports talk shows a while ago that one day Kobe came home to their house in Newport Beach and the front end of his S-class Benz was messed up, he asked Vanessa what happened and she said, "My ex-boyfriend came by and was driving the car and wrecked it." How messed up is that? (IF IT'S TRUE).

MTV Cribs tonight is ALL Shaq - all 3 segments. It's gotta be good.

Tiger Attack May Cost Mirage Huge Loss - I hope the Mirage doesn't go out and sign some sucky singer to headline their hotel now. Celine Dion is taken already so the only one worse is Michael Bolton.

Big Surprise: Look where California is on this list.

Yahoo! News - Crowd Cheers Schwarzenegger After Apology: Gray Davis groped me ... While reaching for my wallet. Best line I've read all day.

I can't believe it's come to this - digging up a quote from an unpublished book proposal from 28 years ago!! Damn. Stop wasting your time on this crap (cause you're still gonna lose) and send your cronies to freakin find Saddam or Osama... you'll get credit for it, don't worry. And those unnamed women who accused him of sexually harassing and groping them between 1975 and 2000? Why didn't they file any charges or lawsuits?? You know people are good for doing that these days... Everyone called it though - dirty dirty dirty. What did you expect?

Dennis Miller tells it like it is... Arnold has taken on two endeavors in his adult life and became the biggest success in the world at both of them.

Oh and that CIA "leak" thing? If you didn't make it a BIG TIME story, maybe 99% of the world wouldn't know about it. You know how things happen, a few people noticed it and then it goes away? No big deal until you bring attention to it! Back in high school, my friend Darryl panced (is that how you spell it? pulling pants down) his brother Geoff at a football game and no one would have noticed if Geoff didn't yell out. When he did, everyone turned to look at him and thats when they knew what was going on. I can't believe I just used that analogy. So now they have her name published, they know who her husband is, they know she has a kid and I'm sure they can find out info about her and the things that she did. I'd feel sorry for her husband but wait, he's the one who brought it all out in the open! It is serious though - I can't believe the reporter would name her in the first place and then say she's an undercover CIA agent. Common sense, people!

Alright, enough political mumbo jumbo (I watched Family Man again last night and "mumbo jumbo" just stuck in my head)...

Is Scrubs the best show on TV or what? This is NBC's best hope next season when Friends is over. I love Joey but I don't think his spin-off is gonna be that great. The first segment of Scrubs was J.D. with headphones on singing and dancing along to 'Faith' - "Well I guess it would be nice, if I could touch your body..." this black dude walks by and J.D. was like, "oh, sorry, not you." 15 seconds into the show and I realized how much I missed it over the summer!

We're running out of time!! Steve - you're the last one of us to turn 25 (I think, if there's anyone else, I'm sorry!) and you'll be 25 in 2 weeks...

Top 10 things to do before you turn 30.

I've actually been working at work (big shocker) this week!! Monday I had to do my timesheets so I could get paid on Tuesday (timesheets suck! I get behind and then I have to do weeks at a time), Tuesday was the end of September and because my two biggest clients' corporations had fiscal years that ended in September, I worked my ass off that day. I made up for it yesterday by barely doing anything all day.

I got a haircut yesterday... decided to go with bangs now because I'm sick of having the same non-hairstyle since junior high. I don't know what prompted me to do it either - I was flipping through Lucky magazine on Saturday at the laundromat with Steph and we decided they look cute so both of us went out and got them.

I finally watched the repeat of last week's Newlyweds last weekend and all I can say is, good thing Jessica Simpson has her looks and her chest. That girl is D-U-M-B!! "Jess, do you want buffalo wings?" "No thanks, I don't eat buffalo." ... later on ... Drew: "Haven't you noticed buffalos don't have wings??" I'm developing a little crush on Nick and Drew... watching them move the furniture across the ladder onto the balcony this week was awesome - they are so creative!

I want Arnold to win next week and I'm certainly rooting for him but I feel sorry for Gray Davis... the recall became more than just talk after he signs the bill to triple the vehicle registration fee and now we're gonna have the recall election a week after the new fees go into affect. All those newly broke people in line at the DMV are sure happy about that! :)

bananame69: i sent a testimonial your way too. it should show up soon
bananame69: i hope you approve =)
Lucyla8: :-)
Lucyla8: glad i'm not looking to date from friendster
bananame69: =) nobody would dare deal w/ you after your "friends" get through w/ you
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: ok... but if justin timberlake rejects me because of friendster, i'm gonna kick your ass!!
bananame69: =)

I had to look for my old cell phones this week so my sister could turn them in and get the $50 mail in rebate from Cingular... I didn't realize how much junk I accumulated in my apartment in less than 2 years. I need to take an entire weekend and just organize everything in my apartment! I have a lot of those Office Depot white boxes stacked up in my closets filled with useless junk I don't need (great set decorators for Office Space by the way - Peter has some stacked up in his apartment also). Anyway, I found a case of CDs I forgot I had... 98 Degrees!! They were my favorite boy band because they were the cutest group... except for Justin. I don't know why Monica ever thought he was the cutest but we made fun of her taste all the time. Like I was telling Steph, Justin from 98 Degrees soils the Justin name :). Nick was my favorite and watching Newlyweds makes me like him even more. He and Drew are so cute when they hang out! So now, the CDs I have in my car are: 1. Justin Guarini, 2. Justin Timberlake Justified, 3. Tyrese (the newest one) (just so when Dante drives my car he can't complain about me only having gay CDs in my changer), 4. 98 Degrees (and Rising), 5. Pop mix CD, and 6. 80s mix CD. My five minute commute only lets me listen to two to three songs a day.

Back to the cell phone bit - I found this old old old Sony phone I had for Sprint... this was when people first got cell phones and gave up their pagers. Must have been around 1996-1997. The thing was huge and heavy!! I know that when the Cingular people open the box for the rebate, they're gonna laugh at how ancient it is. Its amazing how small cell phones have gotten now. The Sony one was about the size of a TV remote...

In other news, I love Bruce Willis... I cried in Armageddon (won't give it away for people who haven't seen it).

I caught the tail end of the Bachelor last night - just the rose ceremony... this one woman was crying hysterically because she wasn't picked. It's the first freakin episode and she's talking about how her heart is broken on national TV. What, she knew the guy for like 2 days? And she already knew what she was getting into with the show! Its not like he misled her or anything, he just didn't show any interest in her.

Amy's boyfriend Rob needs a place to stay and Amy's parents don't want him living with her so I offered our living room for him to stay at a couple nights a week. Right now he's staying with her friend in Santa Barbara and he has class at Pasadena City College one day a week. That is a hell of a commute, even if it's for one day! He was talking about payment and we were just joking around - I told him buy me From Justin to Kelly but he can't buy it online. He has to go to a store so someone can see him buy it. I was telling Mike about this and Mike said that wasn't enough. He has to wear a "Justin Guarini Rules!" shirt so people know he's buying the movie for himself and not a sister. I've hung out with Rob three times and we're already on terms where we make fun of each other relentlessly. How does a relationship like that start anyway?? I just realized that this is the way I am with my close Asian male friends (Mike and Steve mainly) - I have no romantic interest in them so I feel comfortable around them. When I first met Rob, I told Amy "he's really good looking for an Asian." That�s a huge compliment coming from me :).

The assistant is single handedly keeping the copier/fax repair service in business!! The admin person made a comment yesterday, �It seems like every time she touches the copier, something happens to it.� She burned her hand trying to fix a paper jam a couple months ago and I don�t know why she tries to figure out how to fix anything wrong with that machine. She breaks it because she simply can�t just hit �COPY/START� � I don�t know what fancy shit she tries to do with it. I honestly don�t know how she survives. This girl is dumber than Jessica Simpson!! Eileen and I were comparing her to Milton from Office Space, where it�s just impossible to try to talk to her about anything.

I got the 24 Season 2 DVDs last weekend but I haven�t started yet. I know that when I do start, that�s all I�ll be doing non-stop for the couple weeks (there are 7 DVDs this time and a lot of deleted scenes � I gotta watch the whole season first just the way they showed them on FOX and then re-watch the season with the deleted scenes added).

I am such a spoiled brat. I was telling my mom I was going to Costco to get those DVDs and I asked her if she wanted anything from there. She wanted these two little cleaning supplies and then she gave me enough money for everything. I want to be able to do that for my kids someday. My mom, sis and I had lunch on Sunday and whenever we go out, we never worry about the price of anything, we just order whatever we feel like. Shark fin soup costs like $20 a bowl (!!) and my parents are cool with it. We spend $200+ on certain dinners� that�s TiVO right there!! If I spend $20 on a meal, I think it�s too much, but that�s cause I don�t make too much and I�m just used to fending for myself. I don�t know how I survived before I got my raise. I�m still broke all the time!

The California Recall debates are on right now and I can tell a lot of people are watching it. My neighbor in the next building is watching it the same way he watches sports. I can hear him cheering on Arnold so I guess he's on my good side now (he usually roots against the Raiders and Lakers). Everytime Arianna Huffington speaks, he yells "shut up! shut up!"

I can't believe these candidates are supporting the drivers licenses for illegals without security checks, etc!! Arnold didn't want to come out and say, "They're illegal!!" (he talked about security risks instead) but I'm glad McClintock did at least (he said they cut in line and we're rewarding them for it). The other three candidates were talking about how great illegal immigrants are for this state. For all the hard-working illegals out there, there are enough of the opposite. And, so many legal residents don't have auto insurance, what makes them think the illegals will get auto insurance now that they have legal drivers licenses? The law Gray Davis signed sucks for a million reasons but mostly it makes it easier for terrorists to change their identities and assimulate into our society.

Stan is at a seminar today :)...

This week has completely sucked. Emmys sucked and the show was boring. No one I wanted to win really won anything (except The Daily Show). I think the only time my favorites won most of the awards at any show was the Oscars the year Titanic won everything. Kiefer was looking cute but he looked out of place at an Emmys and not an Oscars. I really really wanted him to win... I wanted 24 to win also but the same old shows always win. Geez, how did I know Sopranos and West Wing was gonna win everything. Sopranos gave us a break last year when they took a season off.

The thing that sucked the most this week is the Raiders game last night. It was unbelievably horrible!! I owe a couple Broncos fans dinner now. :( We have this bet twice every year though and I got lucky last year. Oh wait - I remember something that sucked even more. The UCLA - Oklahoma game. I knew we didn't have a shot against the #1 team in the country but still, we coulda at least scored half as many points as they did!! Steve and I were talking about the good old days when we were in college and we had an amazing football team led by Cade McNown and we were ranked #2 in the nation... we went into games knowing we'd win, the only question was by how much. (We beat Texas 66-3 one year). We don't know how that feels anymore. Say what you want about Cade McNown now, but back in college, he was an incredibly smart QB. If we just needed a yard or two, he would go to the line of scrimmage with no play called and just draw the defense offsides. We had a fun offense with a ton of trick plays - our WRs would throw passes to the QB sometimes... Ah, the good old days. We're lucky to score anything this season.

At lunch today, I watched the suckfest that is Passions. I can't believe Sheridan is still in that basement!! And I thought she was sleeping when they kidnapped her so why is she wearing high heels?? She's been in that damn basement since July and her kidnappers are 2 females who aren't always armed. Why the hell doesn't she run for it and try to escape?? Stupid Sheridan voluntarily gets in position for the kidnapper to tie her up with masking tape after asking them, "What are you doing??". Kim from 24 escaped/attempted to escape from kidnappers so many times and they definitely had guns! So today, one of the kidnappers was attempting to take Sheridan somewhere else and then Sheridan thought she heard Luis's voice. Instead of yelling "Luis" like she has been for however many months she was in the basement, she does nothing. Oh, I guess the kidnapper stopped her from yelling by softly placing a hand over her mouth - that's why she didn't yell. So they get back in the room and she waits until the door is closed before she starts yelling "Luis!!" Oh my god. I think this is why I love 24 so much - they don't treat the viewers like idiots.

Forbes' List of 400 Richest Americans - I envy each and every person on this list, but can someone tell me how the person who came up with Beanie Babies ended up #30 on this list? $6 billion dollars just from selling those little stuffed animals?? One of my clients gets the FSB magazine (Fortune Small Business) and this month's issue has more stories on how people got started (Hugh Hefner, Kate Spade, Charles Schwab, Tom Golisano (Paychex), Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza) ...). I don't know if I could ever be that innovative but you have to take a huge chance to make it big. I was reading about how Kate and Andy Spade struggled when they first started and they were thinking about closing the business because they were putting all their money into their business while all their friends were buying their first homes and putting money into the stock market. It just seems like they were destined to succeed. That goes for all these people who are profiled in the magazine. I want to read about someone who tried and failed miserably! (just to make me feel better). I've only failed to get something I really wanted once in my life (I'm still young) so I need a reality check.

Yahoo! News - Tens of Thousands Warned to Flee Isabel - Isabel looks too much like Israel... I thought something huge was happening... and that Bush would somehow get blamed for it.

Some GEMS from the *brilliant* assistant... the exact text of some memos she wrote us:

1) After Stan and I discussed, we have agreement that I will work part time temporarily, and the schedule will be from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. This schedule is adjustable according to my doctor appointment or other physical necessities. I appreciate your time and understanding for this request.

2) I have an appointment with M**** M**** International on Friday Sep 19, 2003 at 1:30 a.m., and I won't be in until 5:00 p.m. If you have anything that needs me done, please let me know earlier.

1:30 AM?? Is that a booty call?? I had to block out the name of the company in case someone knows them because I don't want them to know what a dumbass bookkeeper they're stuck with. (Or bookeeper, according to her resume). I was going nuts last week because I had to go through and do work on some files and she either puts stuff in the wrong client file or she doesn't file them chronologically. An easy 20 minute task turned into an hour of cleaning up the file. Eileen told me, "Don't blame her. Filing wasn't on her resume. FILLING was."

Oh yeah - something I forgot to mention earlier. Roomie's boyfriend came by Saturday (don't know how he got in, I was asleep) and I guess the roomie was hanging out with some other guy in her room. All I heard was yelling, banging, knocking stuff over, etc... He kicked a hole in her door so big she has trouble opening and closing the door to her room now. The instant I heard him leave, I signed off instant messaging onto my other name. I didn't want to deal with that shit anymore. Fucker was back the next night. Yeah, I don't expect to see any of my security deposit after I move out.

FINISHED!!!! I finally finished 24 and damn, that was a good ending! I was up til 3AM last night watching it because I couldn't stop. The show was perfectly cast too, even the guest stars. I don't think anyone could have done a better job in those roles. I never thought I would like Kiefer so much either. (It's not as bad as liking Nicholas Cage) He sorta became a nobody after Julia Roberts broke off their engagement but now I like him better than I like her.

I also caught the repeat of Sex and the City. I kinda knew it would happen but ... BLAIR!!! I know Miranda loves Steve but Blair is perfect!! If she doesn't want him, I'll take him. He's a doctor for the Knicks too... I loved last week's episode when he offered Steve the courtside seats and Steve turned him down because of pride - "Naw, I like sitting up in the nosebleed seats."

Is $10k more a year worth a commute from West LA to Pasadena?? I'm so used to my five minute commute to work, to not having to work hard, to having lunch with Dante every day... but Debbie IMed me yesterday telling me that she left Deloitte to work at a mid-tier firm, they're hiring like crazy over there, and she has lunch with the recruiting manager all the time. It's a tax position and it's a better career path than I'm on right now. (I don't know if they'd hire me because I don't have the relevant tax experience though.) I like what I'm doing now, but business management for celebs won't get me that far later on. Jay told me this when I almost left to go work with him last year. I'd have to get my own clients if I wanted to make it big. Eileen has been here for 8 years and she doesn't make that much and they're not gonna make her a partner here. I've reached as far as I can get at this company also and I've only been here 2 years. I'm in charge of a couple client accounts. Whoohoo. We have an incompetent assistant here who would probably be given my job if I left. Hmmm... thats scary. I don't know if I can do that to my clients. :) But anyway, at a mid-tier accounting firm, you move from staff/associate to senior to manager and maybe even partner with time. You can even go into the private sector after working at these places. I'm not sure about mid-tier firms, but the Big 4 accounting firms give you laptops, meal expenses, pay for your travel and all these extra perks. I'd have to work harder but thats what I thought I would be doing at this age - work my ass off so I can make more $$ later on just sitting on my ass and bossing people around. We'll see what happens. I don't want to get my hopes up.

My brother was in a car accident this weekend. He was sitting in the passenger seat of an BMW M3, it was 12 midnight, they were driving 120 on the canyon roads in OC. They hit a water spot, the car went out of control, flipped a couple times and landed upside down. My bro and the driver (19 year old white guy from a rich family) were just lucky to be alive but my bro has scars on his face from the glass and the driver got this huge gash on his head (you could see his scalp). My brother did tell me something funny though - he said when they were telling the cops that they smelled gas so they hurried and got out of the car and ran, the cops told them, "You guys watch too much TV." In every movie/TV show, cars explode after they crash. You come to expect it. Anyway, I'm just glad they're ok. If anyone out there races, DON'T DO IT!!! Its SO not worth whatever high you get from it. We knew a guy in high school whose brother died while racing one of my mom's friend's sons. The mom's friend's son just left the guy there too and drove off and I can't remember if they charged him with anything but the mom of the guy who died had a nervous breakdown. Just not worth it.

There's this girl who Mike doesn't like talking to but who calls him all the time. He complains to me on AIM that she's on the phone yakking and how the hell can someone talk so much! I told him to come up with a list of excuses to get off the phone, like Seinfeld did. He came up with, "My pimp is coming over, gotta go." I told him, "No NERD!! You're the pimp!! You're supposed to be the pimp! You're supposed to say, 'My hos are coming over, gotta go.'" Hmmm... I wonder if anyone remembers the sweet old Lucy from high school and college. I've changed so much.

I'm watching the UCLA game right now and I look at all those students in the crowd, especially the freshmen... its their first year, first football game, first time living away from home, etc... so much to look forward to in their next 4 years. I miss that time in my life. When I knew so much was possible, when I didn't have any worries about anything but studying, laundry, finding a TV before Friends and Seinfeld came on... and getting up to Hedrick Hall for dinner because the basketball team ate up there. I feel so old! I had a great time at UCLA and I wouldn't trade that for the world. When I was there, our football team didn't SUCK either! Wait, they did my senior year but the first 3 years were so good that it made up for the last year. It was so good those first 3 years, it made me think Cade McNown was the cutest. I'm not even gonna get into that.

finished another disc and a half... so much has happened already and I'm only a little more than halfway though the season!

finished 3 discs!! So I've sat through 12 hours of full concentration. This show is affecting my mental health though - I don't trust anyone and I'm paranoid that people are out to get me.

Mike and I are planning a 2 season marathon when he gets back for winter break. We figure we need about 48 hours total because each episode is probably about 45 minutes (without the commercials) so TV time would be about 36 hours. We also requested a little break between seasons, a couple breaks to get food and a couple bathroom breaks.

So someone's car was booted because of unpaid parking tickets... right in front of his job too!! I'm nervous cause he's driving my car to work now. He drops me off, goes to work, picks me up for lunch and picks me up after work. Actually, we trade off on who drops who off - I have a parking spot in the garage though so its easier for me. Good thing we live/work so close. This forces me to be good though - I can't sneak out if I don't have the car.

I've been way to busy watching my 24 Season 1 DVDs to do anything else recently. I'm on hour 10 right now and it is so gooooooooooood!! So many twists and turns! I've always been a spoilers freak but I discovered how much fun it is to watch something without knowing what's gonna happened next. Steve better get used to me IMing him "that bitch ****!! I can't believe she did that!" :) (I won't ruin it for people who haven't watched but seriously, you SHOULD watch!) I watched bits and pieces of season 2 when FX had that marathon on Labor Day but now that I know the characters - WOW. Another show to add to my roster of shows I watch... basically, anything on TV. I need my TiVO before the fall season starts!

I still like my roommate but damn, stuff she does unintentionally BUGS me! She's 21 so I just ignore what she does because she's young and she doesn't know any better, but still. Apparently she has all these guys in love with her... she was whining to me one day, "My boyfriend wants me to stop talking to other guys. I can't do that!! I don't know what to do with all these guys. They all tell me they love me. You're lucky, you only have one." Am I wrong to be offended by that? (And besides, I'd rather have my ONE instead of all those ugly ass guys you talk to!) I was a little pissed off when Dante told me she was in my room hanging out with him and watching TV on Saturday after Jenny and I left to go to my sister's apartment to tan. She also told him that those other girls he talks to (2 of them came by the apartment) are pretty. What the hell is up with that? And why was she in my room kicking it with him?? If they were in her room, fine, he went to talk to her. But its different when she goes to my room to talk to him. I don't go to her room to hang out with her boyfriend when she's not there. That fucker keeps messaging me to bitch and moan about her but I'll get to that later. I never hung out with Eileen's husband or Kristi's boyfriend. I think its crossing the line - am I overreacting??

Ok - on to her boyfriend. Everything was cool Saturday night, I was in my room watching 24 :) and then I hear a bunch of noise outside my room and then I hear the door slam and I heard him start his car. (He doesn't lock the freaking door to our apartment anytime, especially when he leaves the apartment mad, which REALLY pisses me off - we don't live in a gated building and its not like this is the Friends set where they can always leave the doors unlocked.) I shoulda signed off AIM right then and there but at least I'll know for next time. (Add uclalu to your buddy lists - thats the screen name I use when I don't want to talk to certain people.) So, he gets home, he gets on IM and starts messaging me and I couldn't pretend like I wasn't there because I was chatting with some other people so it doesn't do the "idle" thing for me. He goes on to BITCH and MOAN about how bad his life is, how bad she treats him, etc. for 3 FREAKING HOURS!! After the first hour, I kept telling him every IM - You need to get some sleep, blah blah blah. (trying to throw in a HINT)... I even had to turn off 24 because I was rewinding every 2 minutes. That was pissing me off more, wasting my time while I was watching 24. Some things I found out during those 3 hours. 1) He parks his car across the street from our apt to see what time she comes home, who she comes home with, etc. 2) He goes up the other set of stairs to look into our apt to see if she is hanging out with anyone in the kitchen. 3) He checks her email, instant messaging. (Great, 2 fucking stalkers for our apartment... some of you can guess who the other person is - "bean bag"). He talked about how badly she treats him, how she made him come that one night and take her to 3 places to buy food for this guy she was hanging out with that day and she prepared the food for the guy, had the boyfriend give her chopsticks, spoons, napkins, etc. to give to that guy (my reply: Why do you put up with it then??)... how she calls him fat and ugly... how he has to lie to his parents to spend time with her and how she wants him to spend the night all the time and he can't do that (She just needs attention, when she sees me having fun with Dante, she'll get all moody and stuff)... how he's not enrolled for classes this quarter because you gotta be there the first day of class and that day she wanted him to take her to an interview for this job that she just started and she doesn't like now (You can't live your whole life around her. You need to do stuff on your own. Nicer way of saying - Get a Life.) The thing is, I DON'T CARE!!! Bitching and moaning to me isn't gonna do anything except waste my time and make me avoid you next time. You're not even my friend!!! Get a freakin blog to bitch and moan! :) I can put up with bitching and moaning from my friends cause they're my friends and thats what we do! This idiot needs to get some friends and get a life. He kept telling me how much it hurts, how its over, etc... Whatever. I knew the idiot would be back over the next day and to my *absolute* amazement he was.

I need to get my own place. I've had that scene from Home Alone running through my head lately - where Macaulay Culkin is jumping on the bed yelling, "I'm living alone! I'm living alone!" *sigh* Someday.

2 nights ago on Big Brother they had an update on Justin and the other people in the jury house... Justin and Nathan were talking about how Justin got his "cardio" in with Dana. Dana is so ugly and so manly!! Just in the right place at the right time. I was thinking about earlier this week when Dante and I were talking about Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri (this was before we read about her dumping him over the phone) - how we don't know what she sees in him. Chris Rock was saying on the MTV VMAs that "It's like a Bentley being on sale for $4 and you just missed buying it!" Anyway, thats how I feel about Justin and his "exercise partner".

So Stan had a date last night!! Heehee, and I'm publicizing it to everyone. When Eileen found out she called me right away and we were planning on going by to see what this lady looked like... what type of person would consider going out with Stan. We're so mean :).

I should not be allowed to touch money. I just bought a large Jumbo Jack combo at Jack in the Box just so I could get the "free" Raiders antenna ball. Of course I'm full halfway through the meal... and I'm gonna have to throw the rest away. I have trouble finishing the regular sized combo meals!!

Two weeks ago, I bought the Schick Intuition razor (the one where you don't have to use shaving cream, gel, etc) because it came with a free FM shower radio... I admit, I really like the razor, but I didn't need a new one! My Gillette Venus was fine. That said, the Intuition razor is the best idea ever for us lazy people! My legs are constantly shaved now. Heehee - no more "cutting down rainforests" when I shave. You don't have to lather your legs and keep your legs out of the shower stream while you shave. The more water, the better with this razor.

Gotta go change... finally tanning today! Whoohoo! No more pasty white legs.

Eileen says Justin Timberlake is too skinny. :( He's still so HOT though!

It's alimony time again - not for me but for my client... Even though its not my money, it still hurts to write that check for $4000 a month (used to be $6000, including child support but the kid finally turned 18) - doesn't that suck though?? Just because you're the more successful of the 2 of you, you have to pay for a mistake you made, while the other one gets to benefit from it forever (unless they got married but who'd willingly give up free money every month??). Thats what sucks about taxes also... you get punished for working your ass off to succeed - the more you make, the more you give up and conversely also - the more you sit on your ass and the less you make, the more you benefit. Oh well, can't change the way things are. I think I'm just sick and tired of having to deal with other people's problems and having to watch out for them. I appreciate certain friends so much because I know they can take care of themselves. Anyway, the client is married to an actress now (who is also my client) and she is awesome - I guess its worth $4000/mo. to be married to her instead.

Watching the repeat of the MTV VMA Awards... damn, Justin Timberlake is so adorable!! "I can dance!" Put a smile on my face for once tonight - pissed at Dante as usual...