I really need to get a life - too much TV watching!!

1 word for yesterday's episode of Amazing Race - FINALLY!!! Her voice was annoying the hell out of me.

The finale for Amazing Race is next week :(. As much as I would love to see who wins (I've heard a couple different spoilers but there are problems with each spoiler), what am I going to do when the show ends?? They won't have the next season of Amazing Race on for MONTHS! My weeks aren't complete without the Amazing Race...

I guess I can wait until June for Big Brother to start but whether I'm hooked on it or not depends on the cast. Last season I LOVED Drew cause he was such a pretty boy.

1 word for American Idol also - FINALLY!!! How the hell did he stay on this long?? Poor guy though - acting a little cocky walking to the sofa.. Boo-yah!

I'm going to a luncheon tomorrow honoring one of our clients and I have no idea what to wear... what to you wear when you're going to an event with a huge bunch of beyond-rich people?? Good thing I live so close to work... I can come home and change real quick before the luncheon if Adriana and Toni are dressier than me. I'm going to bring some other options in my car just in case. The guys have it easy - they need to wear ties... I have to figure out - skirt or pants, button down shirt or nice top? Argh!

PHEW!

Awww f*ck - just the perfect way to cap off the miserable time I've been having lately... Here Comes The Bride: Cameron Diaz To Marry Justin Timberlake This Coming Weekend! ... AND in Nice of all places!! Nice, France has been sorta my adopted foreign city for a while because of this poster I have that I love and because they went there for the Amazing Race last year. My adopted domestic city is Scottsdale, Arizona (Steph knows all about this :)) but Britney Spears ruined that lately cause she and her boy toy have been staying there preparing for the baby.

I'm not a big fan of Constantine because he kinda creeps me out with those faces he makes and his "sexy" looks into the camera but who the hell keeps voting for Scott??

Can't sleep!! Had coffee around 8:30 tonight during my CPA Review class and it was stronger than I thought! I've watched Amazing Race, 24, American Idol, the Real World Road Rules Challenge and part of today's All My Children and I'm still fully awwake!

This Nyquil isn't helping either... I've been sick since last Thursday when I went to a hockey game (one of the partners owns a team) at Healthsouth (where the Lakers and Kings train). It was freezing in there and even though I had a blanket, I wasn't prepared for how cold it was. My cold has gone on for 3 days and this is the first time in a long time I've been sick so I forgot all about Zicam - the best cold medicine ever (I use the nose swab) - until Jennifer mentioned it yesterday. I went and got some and I feel better already.

2 weeks ago, right after tax season ended and after our tax party where I had a great time with my co-workers, I was reading my posts from a year ago at this time and 2 years ago at this time and I just couldn't believe how I made it through that miserable time in my life. I felt so lucky that I finally have things together in my life... I love my job, my friends, my relationship with my family, my apartment and my relationship with my roommates and I love where I was in my life. I was so happy to have Don in my life and most importantly, Dante OUT of my life. I finally got off my ass and I'm on my way to getting my CPA.

Fast forward a couple days later, when I found out that the people in charge of the company now are promoting a girl who started 6 months after I did, a girl with the worst personality ever - know-it-all (even though she DOESN'T!!), talks about herself ALL the time, brags about her connections (who fucking cares, they're nobodies just like you), asks us if we know Quickbooks and brags about how much better that program is than the program we use at this company (yes I know Quickbooks because Stan used it and no it's NOT better because the program has no internal controls and you can change entries sooooo easily which just invites fraud)... AAHHHH!! I'm gonna stop now because I can go on forever about how much I can't stand her big fat kiss-ass and I want to finish this post sometime soon so I can catch up on 24 and Amazing Race. Anyways, they were promoting her 'not-yet-graduated from SANTA MONICA COLLEGE even though she's 30 something' ass over 2 UCLA degrees (me and Tony) because she overheard someone tell someone else that they were leaving and she went into the bosses' office to ask for the job. If it weren't for office gossip, I wouldn't know anything going on at the office because everything is so secretive now... but technically, Tony and I 'didn't know' that the girl was leaving so how could we have gone in to ask for the job?

I wasn't as pissed as I should be because I felt like we all knew Tony would be the next to be promoted and I was after him. He was at the job 2 years longer than I was. Tony pissed me off because he didn't want to go into talk to any of the partners or the consultant. Speak up for yourself dammit!! I told him if he didn't speak up, then I would and I was going to give him a day to do so. I thought I finally convinced him to do it after talking to him for what seemed like hours but then at lunchtime, he says, "I think I'm just going to mention it at the review in July." WTF! BE A MANNNNNNN!!! His office-mate has the heater on constantly in their office and it feels like its 100 degrees in there all day and I KNOW it bothers him but he won't say anything! I get pissed at my niece for not speaking up for herself but she's a 13 year old GIRL and he's a 29 year old MAN.

Enough bitching and moaning though - I've already done it for almost a week straight. I'm over it - I had my talk with the consultant and if things work out, then great, if not, there are a million other jobs out there. I still love the job but this just put some bitterness into it. The consultant doesn't know me at all and at least this gave him a chance to know me and my qualifications. He interviewed Ms. Kiss-Ass so I'm sure she felt comfortable asking him for the job and he felt comfortable giving it to her because if you don't know someone, who cares about them? He started in August I think, 2 months after I did and he was supposed to take time to get to know everyone at the company, but that didn't happen. He was surprised I wanted to be promoted and I just asked him, "Isn't it OBVIOUS??" Apparently not. Forget my UCLA degree, my previous business manager experience and the fact that I'm sitting for the CPA exam (all of which he didn't know about), I want to be an assistant bookkeeper forever.

When I interviewed at the company, Liz told me that they do promote from within but there are a lot of people in line in front of me and I told her I was fine with that. I didn't expect some wonderkid (who proved today in my office she doesn't know how to use a freakin typewriter!) who came in 6 months after me to move ahead of me 'in line'. Typewriter story - she comes into my office to use the typewriter next to Susan's desk and Susan mentions something to her about the margins being screwed up so wonderkid says, "Oh, I know how to fix that." She presses a couple keys and puts her paper in, presses a key and it won't stop typing!! What's the next step?? Say it with me - turn the typewriter off so it'll STOP! But no, wonderkid couldn't figure that out so Susan had to tell her to turn it off so it'll stop typing and Susan is pretty clueless about stuff herself but it's ok for Susan because she's old (I had to go through how to write a letter on Word for her because she's never used it). I was just sitting there doing my work - why should I help her out if she's acts so much better than I am? She gave up after she couldn't figure it out and just left.

This was the toughest week I've gone through since I started this job but its good because it helped me realize that no matter how great you think a company is, in the end, its just a company, just like many others out there. Things have changed a lot since I started at the company and the "family" feeling isn't there anymore. We still have fun sometimes but so many people have left or are leaving that it's just not the same anymore.

Gosh, I'm depressed now... my dream of the perfect company is just shattered. With my luck right now, a press release will come out tomorrow that Justin proposed to Cameron...

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day!! Tuesday 4/19 (tomorrow) 12pm-8pm... good thing I decided to give up this stupid diet thing my mom wants me to do... involves acupuncture and what amounts to the Atkins diet. Yeah, of course you're gonna lose weight if you don't eat, you don't need those 4 acupuncture sessions to make you do that. Now, I LOVE LOVE LOVE meat, but if I can't even eat veggies for 2 days and fruits for at least a week, I'm not going to stick to it! I hate it when people tell me I can't ___... makes me want to do it more.

Anyways, I decided to quit that diet (after 28 hours) and I'll just exercise instead to get my mom off my back. The way she talks, you'd think I was this guy! She called me fat so many times on Saturday, I just came back to Santa Monica that night - I was planning to be a good daughter and spend the night in OC but I just could NOT take it!!

I love you Tivo WishList!! Rick Fox is guest starring on this Weds' episode of Kevin Hill...

FREE Razor! - some new 4-blade razor called Quattro...

I did tell you all I was getting stupider right?? I unplugged the modem and the router and plugged it back in (I remember thats what Comcast used to tell me to do) and it works fine now... faster than I remember, even! Maybe someone was smooching off our wireless network like we think Marilu was accidentally doing with someone else's. We could barely figure out how to set up the internet here, forget trying to put a firewall on!

I fell asleep during Apprentice tonight and I woke up 2 hours later... now I can't get back to sleep!! I finally managed to change my template though - I loved the old one but I was getting sick of it and I don't think the template was right because I kept getting popups when I went to the page - I don't know what those popups were though cause Mozilla blocks it.

My roommate situation is awesome right now - this is the first time in a long time I've had a "real" roommate/family situation in an apartment I live at... we cook together, we pitch in to buy groceries and stuff for the apartment, no one complains about cleaning up after other people... it is easier to live with people you know and like I realize :) instead of living with complete strangers. Tony is an awesome cook!

Everyone has their little things that get annoying but you learn to live with it :) We can make fun of each other and tell each other things we need to hear and not be offended... For instance, Marilu has a boyfriend now up north and she has totally changed how she acts, sometimes not for the better... I tell her all the time, it's new, just enjoy it and go on from there, but she thinks she's falling in love, etc... and she isn't even divorced yet! At lunch earlier this week, Jon was telling her that she's changed a lot and a lot of people have noticed it. "...You're turning into Darth Vader! ... You'd be the shortest Darth Vader ever though." We did have a semi-serious talk with her (I suggested at least going to a therapist to get over her guilt about her separation/divorce just cause everyone goes to a therapist) and when we came back from lunch, everytime Marilu walked by his office, Jon would start playing the Star Wars music. :)

This is an example of how sad we are... yesterday was April 14th and Charles was doing his taxes after work, roommie Tony was supposed to do his taxes at night (I fell asleep, don't know if he finally did them or not), Marilu and I both filed extensions... keep in mind we work in an accounting office doing people's taxes!! I might be the saddest though - I filed the extension and I only have 2 W-2s and I'm taking the standard deduction, so my tax return will take 5 minutes max. My problem is I can't FIND my W-2s - it's in some box in my room, I haven't been able to find anything since I moved.

Couple quick things before I leave work and tackle my 5 minute commute home...

Adelphia FREAKIN sucks!! My internet at home has been sooooooooo slow lately, slower than dial-up in the early 1990s.


A little late, but "Noooooooooooooooooo!!" to Brian and Greg being eliminated from the Amazing Race... they were my favorite team because they were so funny about it. This year, if you come in last on a non-elimination leg, you have to give up all your possessions, along with all your money and you go on to the next leg of the race with no money and only the clothes on your back and your passport... Brian and Greg did so bad on that leg that they figured if it was a non-elimination leg, they would punish themselves by finishing the race in that their hats, scarves and swimsuit trunks. I'm so upset it wasn't non-elimination!! Brian did this hilarious Heineken commercial with Jennifer Aniston a couple years ago... I like Lynn and Alex too but their obsession with Rob and Amber is driving me nuts! I loved how Alex thought they would be last on last week's episode and started putting on every piece of clothing he had, just in case it was non-elimination! I think I'm in the 1% of people who actually don't hate Rob and Amber because I never watched Survivor, didn't know why people hate them so much and because they're good racers. I know some people get offended by what Rob says on-camera but I have a co-worker who makes offensive comments all the time and he makes it funny. The co-worker knows his audience too so he wouldn't be that comfortable when we're around other people. Back to Amazing Race... I can't stand the old couple because Gretchen's voice is annoying as hell and she's always shouting/whining loud... also because I had this dream a couple nights ago - it involved me, Justin Timberlake, a few co-workers and Gretchen... yeah, I know! How the hell did she get in that dream??

I better go... I forgot I wanted to stop by Circuit City to get Oceans Twelve on DVD...

I'm taking a break from studying for dinner and the Apprentice... I took the day off work today to study (I would have taken tomorrow off but the bookkeeper I work with already had planned to take that day off and we work in teams so I figured today was good enough - it's a pretty light week because we did so much last week). It was such a nice day too - I went to the big Coffee Bean on Ocean Park and just sat outside and studied. (After studying I stopped by 24 hour fitness to pay my membership renewal and realized I lost my drivers license which put me in panic mode because I need the drivers license to take the test. Thankfully I found it when I got home). All this studying brings back college memories - studying at the study room in the UCLA library because 'everyone' was there, going to Jerry's Deli to study after the study room closed at 2am, studying in Ackerman all night finals week and getting free coffee from Kerchkoff... and finally, the 'pity' shopping spree after my last final for the quarter. Believe me, on Saturday after this section of the test, I'm going on a BIG pity shopping spree! This is the first time I've studied for anything in 5 years!! Thank god tomorrow is payday...

I can't believe I wasted the first sunny weekend since I moved to Santa Monica in the apartment studying!!! With my luck, it is going to rain every weekend from now on, like it has before.

Sorry about the light posting but I've been trying to study for the CPA exam - April 2!! I've been downing Red Bull to help me concentrate :).

I hardly go on the internet at work anymore because the "office consultant" sent out an e-mail about the company internet policy last week and we know he has been printing out reports on our internet use. I swear, even good companies can turn into Office Space - except for the hating work part (me not hating work, some people totally do but thats every office). We got an office consultant late last year, there's a lady who they keep moving around (our office is too small for all the employees they need so they move the part time lady who does tax stuff - her office is currently in the small copy room), some people seem to show up to work whenever they want (one of the ladies I share an office with - she was asking us once, "you're not late if you're in before 10 right?" and she's used every excuse in the book to call in late/sick - she's averaged a week off a month in the time I've known her... another lady was demoted (she was telling everyone she wanted to be an assistant again, she doesn't want to be a bookkeeper anymore, so they did it) and she got so mad she was demoted that she went in that day to tell the office consultant she was taking a 2 week vacation and she was supposed to be back yesterday but she called in and resigned.

Oh shit, I better hurry up and start getting ready because you know you need to get off your ass in the morning when Michael Jackson shows up to court... I'll have more Office Space examples later...

Yahoo! News - Mario Vazquez Drops Out of 'American Idol' - I can't believe this! I was looking forward to this season too and he was my favorite :(.

This is a completely innocent picture but it is the funniest picture ever - Yahoo! News - Sports Photos - AP

I'm watching today's Oprah right now on Tivo and Shemar Moore is on... I wish they'd just keep the camera on Shemar instead of moving it around all the time!! Oprah gets more steady face time than her guests!

Damn tornado warning!! I'm missing Shemar Moore time... it's ok because Oprah is interviewing Kimberly Elise right now and Shemar isn't on camera as much.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman looks like it'll be good...

I was at Best Buy last night returning a USB adapter - why is it so hard to find a wireless one that works with Tivo?? Stupid me just realized tonight that I can just buy it from the Tivo store... Anyways, I was in line and I see someone I think I recognize... I think it was cute Brian from Canyon Point at UCLA - Juli's friend! Juli and I both had a crush on him - he's half black half white, 6 feet (the perfect height) and soooo nicely built. SMART too :) gotta love those. He was on the customer service phone in front of me and I was just staring at him... the jeans he had on looked amazing on him and his shirt fit him perfectly. Just when I was thinking, he must have a really nice butt under those jeans, he turns around and looks at me! I KNOW I didn't say anything out loud!! Is it possible for someone to read your thoughts like that?? I should have said something to him and I've been kicking myself all day for not doing anything. At the very least I coulda asked him if he had gone to UCLA because he looked familiar.

I'm loving this 5 minute commute to work again. The lights on Olympic Blvd. are freakin short though!! Steph was right when she said that if you live close to work, you don't venture out into other areas as much anymore. This week has been an exception though because I've had to do a lot of errands here and there. I was waiting all week for a day I could just leave work and come home to relax without having anywhere else to go.

I met one of the surfer dudes downstairs and he IS cute!! He was wearing a nice white button down shirt with jeans... I'm loving this life now :)

1. MOVING SUCKS.

2. I have become dumber over the past couple months - I could not figure out how to set up my internet access on this computer - took me a couple hours and I got frustrated so I gave up, then when I came home last Sunday, Tony had it all set up. Whoohoo, the benefits of living with smart people! It took me 2 hours to figure out why I wasn't getting any "Live TV" with my TiVo... We don't have a phone line at this apartment (no need for one) so I took the TiVo over to my friend Andy's place to set up Adelphia's cable lineup and I had to skip a lot of the setup steps because I wasn't at my place. I was about to give up and then I went to settings, played around with it and found the right screen to change the connection and get my Live TV.

3. How do people live without TiVo?? I didn't have Tivo completely set up Sunday and Monday and I was DYING!! You have to rush home to watch a show, you can't pause, you can't go back if you miss something. I had to call my sis Sunday - "can you Tivo Desperate Housewives for me?" and Monday - "can you Tivo American Idol for me?" My roommates are missing their shows too so both of them are getting Tivo... if they activate it under my account, it's only $6.95 a month instead of $12.95. The new Tivos look so much cooler than the one I have!!

4. You guys have to see Fat Actress - the show is hilarious! Actually, the first episode is... the second one is kinda blah but it's still good. Showtime is having a free preview weekend March 4-7 and Fat Actress premieres on the 7th... I went to the premiere last week and it was way more fun than the L Word one. Raven Symone was sitting in front of us and she's so much chubbier than I remember her being... Kelly Preston and Mark Curry (Hanging with Mr. Cooper) were also there. The after-party was at the Geisha House and Kirstie Alley was dancing with everyone... she seems so nice. Her assistant on the show was pretty cool too... He and his friends were just dancing their butts off - I love goofy guys. Mark Curry kept looking in our direction :).

I have been doing a lot of cleaning these last 2 months, throwing away things from my childhood, etc... it hit me how much I hate the person I have become these last few years. I was so sheltered, so responsible, so organized (to the point of being anal) and just so much better than the person I am now. I want to start all over but before I can do that, there's a lot of debt I have to clear. I can't believe all the shit I used to do for Dante, all the lies I believed, all the suffering I did just to make him happy.

All these what ifs enter my mind... what if I had gotten a job at a Big 5 Accounting firm (it's now the Big 4 but I'm used to saying the Big 5), what if I hadn't had to interview with that ass Charlie Osaki, the head of recruiting for Deloitte at the time (who got fired a couple months later because of sexual harassment), I would probably have gotten the job there and I would have never met the guy who ruined my life. Maria had set me up with Deloitte and they invited me to all the recruiting events that fall and everyone seemed to like me except for Charlie. I was in a small group of people who they invited to all the events and I think everyone else in that group did get an offer from Deloitte. Someone told me that they went to one of those recruiting events with Charlie and he would point out - "look at that girl's ass", etc. and that's probably part of the reason he was fired. The day of my interview, I know Charlie deliberately chose me to interview - I don't know what grudge he had against me. I always tell people, I guess my ass wasn't big enough for Charlie. (My ass wasn't as big as it is now :)).

I don't know if I would have been happy at one of those Big 5 firms because I know a lot of people who went on to work for them and left as soon as their 2 years were up (you need 2 years experience to get your CPA license and the Big 5 was the best way to get it), but it was the way I had planned my life so it was such a disappointment for me that I wasn't able to get in. I was supposed to work for a Big 5, work my ass off for a couple years and enjoy the benefits of the hard work later... I was supposed to meet someone who was in the same field, who wore suits to work and who just commanded attention because they were just that amazing. Oh yeah, and he's cute (of course), fit and a little taller than me. I was supposed to be married in my late 20s and we were going to have 3 kids (girl, boy, girl), the house with the nice yard, and both of us were going to be making good money so we wouldn't have any money issues in our life... Life certainly doesn't turn out the way you plan it.

Even with all I went through working for Stan, I'm glad business management just fell into my lap like that. I was working for a criminal defense attorney after college (a lady I worked for part-time when I was in college) and I told her I wanted to go into accounting instead so I told her she needed to find someone... when she found a person to take over my job, I knew I had to get off my ass and look for my accounting job... it took me 5 days from the time I first sent out resumes to the day I signed my papers to work for Stan. I know now that if I have to do accounting for the rest of my life, I'd rather do what I do now - business management for entertainment clients. The entertainment industry part makes the job more fun - these people make lucrative amounts of money for what they do and some spend equally lucrative amounts of money on unimaginable stuff. We always have a lot of stories to tell in the office.

Wow, I really went off the subject... :)

I was going through my stuff at my parent's house and I see all the folders I had made for everything in my life. First off, the no-brainer, I had all my bank / credit card statements / bills 2 hole punched and in manila folders. I had folders for Target, Best Buy, and whatever stores I go to a lot and the folders were filled with receipts. Then I had folders for newspaper articles, mall pamphlets, fast food menus, directions to random places, application papers, etc. I also had random little notes in a folder. I found a folder labeled "Hawaii 2000" and I found the plane tickets, the little brochures we collected there, pictures, receipts, etc. I remember I did all this for the criminal defense attorney so I wanted to organize my life that way too.

I'm so glad she was my first real job - she taught me a lot of things that I wish I hadn't lost when I worked for Stan (he was so disorganized it was unbearable to work for him). My grammar was also so much better when I worked for her. I got disorganized in the 2.5 yrs I was with Stan because it was impossible to be organized around him and after a while, you just don't care. My grammar plummeted because I had to deal with assistants who barely knew English and after a while, you just dealt with it and you don't bother correcting the grammar on the letters the assistant sent out because no one else seemed to care.

Argh, I'm sleeping on an air mattress this week because I moved my bed to the new apartment last week... you ask why I haven't fully moved into the new apartment yet? The cable/internet isn't going to be set up until Saturday :). Some people understand me!! No cable, no internet = nothing to do. Plus, I'm here at the old apartment still packing my stuff. I'm so bad at this - I procrastinate because the deadline for me to move out is 10 more days. I'm going to try to do the bulk of the moving this weekend though.

I went to "the L Word" premiere tonight at the DGA building in Hollywood... thought it would be a good place to meet cute desirable guys (employed and well-connected) but halfway through the after-party, I realized it was a bad idea. Yeah there were cute guys there but the party was in West Hollywood and you know what that means - its hard to figure out the straight guys from the gay ones. This one cute guy was doing an interview on camera and I totally thought he was straight but then after the interview, this guy comes up and gives him a kiss... woops, my mistake.

The L Word is a good show, but it's not for me. I'm watching Sex and the City now so I can go to sleep with things back to normal... um, not that there's anything wrong with that.

I can finally get back to work now... I was getting slightly annoyed at Don because I had been signed onto AIM for half an hour this morning and he hadn't messaged me Happy Valentine's Day yet. I don't know why I was getting annoyed because he has no obligation to - we aren't a couple... but he's a nice guy and it would be nice if he did. Why have I become so girly?? I was moody last week because I found out he dated another girl at this company 2 years ago (I've never met her because she left a while ago - she was 30 and 2 years ago he was 20, so I guess I'm not that much of a cradle robber... I have no reason to be moody - everyone has exes and my ex moved in with me while Don and I were still dating (because he "had nowhere else to go" which can be translated into: he was jealous and just wanted to ruin things for me). I'm not a completely bad person though! If Don wasn't moving to Florida, I would have cut off all contact with the ex.

Now that Amazing Race is over, I've been catching up on the other shows... I was watching the American Idol auditions and at first that guy Mario reminded me of Wilmer Valderrama (Fez from That 70s Show) but during the Pasadena auditions, I started seeing a little Justin Guarini in him... maybe it's the way he sings or the way he looks (minus the hair of course). After watching the new season, I started missing Justin Guarini so I popped in my American Idol 1 DVD (thanks Steve, my source for embarassing DVDs). If Justin is googling his own name, I just want to say - Justin, I still love you!

What is my pre-occupation with the name Justin?? I keep finding more Justins to love. Besides Justin Timberlake and Justin Guarini, I found another crush - Justin Bruening from All My Children... I think he looks like a cuter version of Don. :)

I won the fourth quarter in our office Super Bowl pool!! Whoohoo, a whopping $25! Still, money is money and thats paid for lunch so far this week.

I am officially a resident of Santa Monica now... we got our apartment last week but I've been way too lazy to pack my stuff - mostly because I thought Dante would take over my lease at this apartment so I could take my time but I talked to my roommate and she didn't want him staying here. Oh well, glad I'm not going to have to deal with her anymore, that pain in the ass! I told her I'm moving out the end of this month and I already gave her an option but she didn't want to take it, so if she can't find anyone by February 28... thats her problem. She already screwed me over the month before she moved in, so I have NO sympathy for her.

I'm sad that Kris and Jon lost the Amazing Race at the end... that put a damper on my week. The host called them the "kissiest couple ever on the Amazing Race" :) They were so fun to watch and I totally want a relationship like they have. OOOH!! That's what I'll visualize this year - the tarot card reader at a client's holiday party told me to visualize what I want and I will get that or something better in the span of a year (so I'll get it before December 11th). The visualization card was my "present" card... my "future" card was the card of change and since the party, I have a new car and a new apartment. I'm working on the new man and new CPA license :) What else can I change??

New York Post Online Edition: news - Kobe's accuser is married and pregnant??

It's amazing how I stuck with Kobe during that whole criminal case but mess with my Shaq and I'll hate you forever...

Shit shit shit shit shit... I was catching up on 2 weeks worth of 24 just now and when I turned on Monday's episode... "WHAT THE HELL!!! WHY ARE THERE ONLY 15 MINUTES RECORDED??" I was on a plane at 8pm Monday, I didn't turn the channel, so I figure the only one stupid enough to risk me killing him for turning the channel while TiVo is recording is Dante. I'm so glad I'm moving so no one can mess with my TiVo!!

Anyways, I got on the TWoP message boards and Tony was back in this episode!! That made me soooo much more pissed. If I had watched it and seen Tony show up when I wasn't expecting it, I woulda used the reaction I have saved in case I ever saw Justin Timberlake in person and screamed like there was no tomorrow. Does anyone have a copy of it?? I need more friends with Tivo. :(

My trip to Florida was fun - it was just like me and Don hanging out on the weekends except instead of going 5 mins to his apartment, I flew 2500 miles to hang out with him. It was so nice just seeing him again and it was so relaxing. The only bad thing about seeing him is I get used to someone doing everything for me, even if it was only for 4 days and now I'm back in LA and back doing everything on my own. I got to see his house and its still mind-boggling how this 22 year old has his own 3 bedroom house with a huge backyard, a circular driveway, a big living room and a game room (big enough to have a pool table and a wet bar), etc and he is only paying about $1200/mo for mortgage. I hate LA... everything is overpriced! I don't know what I was expecting to see in Lakeland but there are some amazing homes there around this one lake he took me to. His house was ok but these houses around the lake are movie-type mansions.

Oh my gosh I can't wait til next Tuesday! I can't believe how addicted I am to the Amazing Race... so addicted I seriously want to move to Scottsdale, Arizona (where Jon is from). I saw on some list that Scottsdale is one of the fastest growing cities in the US or something like that (maybe - hottest cities to live in, can't remember) and after coming back from Florida and seeing how people can afford to buy houses for less than an arm and a leg, I want to buy a house in Scottsdale and catch the wave while it's still hot.

I've been so sour on LA lately - I pinpoint it to the day they declared Kobe the king of the world and sent Shaq and Phil Jackson packing.

Craving ice cream so I'm going to get off my big butt and go get some...

Just when I thought I couldn't love Amazing Race more... I've had this poster in my bathroom of Nice, France for a year now (it's colorful - brightens up the bathroom and looks amazing with a thick black frame) but before I got it, I hadn't heard of Nice, didn't know where it was on the map, etc... and they went to Nice this week on Amazing Race! I definitely need to add that to my imaginary travel plans. I just bought this book off Amazon - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die - and I've done maybe 10 things max in the book so I need to get started...

Going to Lakeland, Florida isn't on that list but I'm headed down there next weekend. I get to be treated like a princess for 4 days! It is going to be great to see Don again - I haven't seen him since Thanksgiving and yes, Jenny, I will get a pic of him so you guys can see what he looks like.

So many changes in my life! I got a new car last week - a new Audi, new bodystyle but the same model I had before... I miss my old car but this car is awesome!! There's this scene in the movie In Good Company where Topher Grace bought a Porsche after he got his new job and as he was driving out of the dealership, he hits a car... that scene was going through my mind for a week before I bought my car!!

I'm looking for a new apartment because I can't stand living with this roommate anymore... She is sooooo petty and I hate petty people. Who argues over butter (especially when I haven't asked you for utilities money for 4 months)?? I got the feeling she was petty the month before she "officially" moved in (some bullshit story about how she wasn't planning to move until the next month so she felt like she shouldn't have to pay the rent for this month even though when I was looking for a roommate I said I needed them to move in right away), when I was paying rent for the entire place but she was there ALL THE TIME for a full month. I'm so nice I always end up being the person who gets walked all over and I'm sick of it!

So much more to say but I have a million things to do...

Office is closed for the YEAR! Whoohoo!! I've never had this before - an incentive for everyone to finish their work early so we can have an extended break. I love this office - the days before holidays we work 8 am to 2 pm... when I was at my old job, I always had to be there until 6 and when I left at 6pm, Stan would get mad at me. I love being at a place where people actually have lives. We got off at 5pm today and we went drinking as usual at the bar downstairs - before we went down, Marilu, Jon and I went to say bye to George, the main partner. He couldn't join us downstairs because his wife was sick but he told Marilu to send him the bill for all of our drinks.

I just can't get over how awesome these partners are. Everyone who knows George loves him. There's even a character named after him on a CBS sitcom - the executive producer is our client. Shane (the computer guy, Don's old boss) joined us tonight and he was just telling us how he goes over to George's house sometimes to do computer stuff for him and he and his wife are soooo in love still and they're the coolest people ever. Last week, someone called for a reference on Lisa (she worked for us for 7 years but then her family moved to New Mexico, so she moved with them) and George gets on the phone... "Lisa? She's out of jail? I'm soooo happy for her because I thought she'd be in there for a month at least!" The person knew he was joking and that just made a better impression because instead of the usual boring reference, now the person will remember Lisa.

I'm going to Vegas for New Years with some co-workers... Marilu's brother got us 2 rooms (for free!) at the MGM Grand. This is the first time I've done anything big for New Years... just wish I had a guy to share all of it with :). I really do hang out with my co-workers too much but we have so much fun!

Other news - I got into a car accident last week... it was soooo stupid, I should have been more careful. I am never taking the 10 West to work again!! 2 accidents in 6 months! The first one wasn't my fault - some girl rear ended me and pushed me into the car in front of me and that car into the car in front of them. Stupid girl was uninsured too. This time, I was looking to switch lanes and the car in front of me suddenly stopped so I swerved and I think I swerved too much (cause I didn't expect the car to suddenly stop and I guess I panicked) because I lost control of my car (yeah, my 4 wheel drive car, but I'll explain later) and a car hit me. It was totally my fault though cause I was sideways on the freeway... The guy in the car that hit me was an illegal alien, didn't have a license, didn't have tags on his car and didn't have insurance, so I feel soooooo bad. I don't know if my insurance will take care of him. The damage looked terrible on the body of my car but inside the car, you can't tell I was in an accident as bad as that. Audi's are freakin sturdy!! I damaged the rear wheel axle so my car is undriveable and I haven't had a car in a week... so tough to live in LA without a car. Missed all the after-Christmas shopping but I shouldn't do that anyway. I started thinking too much this week and I realized maybe it was meant for me to not have a car and not drive this week because of all the rain. I might have gotten into a worse car accident.

I shouldn't have lost control on a 4 wheel drive car but when Dante took my car in for new front brakes 2 years ago, he didn't get the Audi factory brakes so there was nothing to connect the anti-lock brake sensors and because of that, my anti-lock brake system was out. I had Audi brakes for the back tires but Don told me (too late!) that if any of the sensors are out, the whole system is out. I should have replaced the front brakes as soon as the anti-lock brake lights came on in my car but I figured as long as my brakes worked, I didn't have to replace them until the brakes needed to be replaced. I took my car in for a brake inspection after the light came on and they told me my brakes were new but they just didn't have that extra thing to connect to the sensors.

I HATE TIME SHEETS! Someday I'll find a job where I don't have to do them but what nice paying job doesn't require time sheets? Attorneys, CPAs, computer nerds and anyone who works in those industries all fill out time sheets for billing. I've been doing time sheets the last 3 years of my life. You fill in what you can and then the rest of the time you bill to the clients with flat rates... If I worked for JP, I wouldn't have to do time sheets because he billed all his clients 5%. I'm trying to fill out the last time sheet of the year right now so we can get out of here today...

I've been so busy at work I haven't had any time to post. We've been working hard to close out all the December year end corporations so we can close the office early (for the year!) I've stayed late at work for a variety of reasons - finishing up work, hanging out with the co-workers or just on the phone with people. After work, I've been going shopping (I can't call it Christmas shopping because that would mean I'm buying things I intend to give other people) and I've actually been hitting the gym a couple times a week!

I was talking to my lunch buddies about that Oprah show and first of all, Tony comes out and says, "That's a repeat from a couple weeks ago! The book was sold out at a lot of places..." so I don't know if his opinion is really an authentic 'guy's opinion'. I like what he said though when I described my situation to him - "yeah, he's into you." I told them how I called Don on Sunday and woke him up (the 3 hour time difference TOTALLY SUCKS!!). I got the voice mail but he called me back as I was leaving a message and Tony asked - how long did he stay on the phone with you? 20 mins... I was wondering why Tony asked that question and he said, "Yeah, he's into you because if a girl wakes me up out of my sleep, if I even call back, I'd just say - I'm sleeping, I'll call you back tomorrow." Tony is a totally nice guy too - too nice even - so Don wasn't just doing that cause he's a nice guy. I'm so through with the "bad boys" - they freakin suck! Adriana (co-worker) was telling me that physically Dante is better looking than Don but Don has all the other qualities you need in a guy. Personality can turn a cute guy into the ugliest guy in the world.

I was talking to Kimiko at work yesterday and Caymi was walking by... she stopped and she told me, "Lucy, your butt is getting bigger!!" I didn't know what to say to that :) Maybe because my butt is getting toned, it's lifting and that makes it look bigger?? I was telling Don about this, trying to use it as an excuse to get out of our gym deal but he wouldn't let me - he said, Caymi should be the last person talking about a person's butt being big - hers is super big, even for black girls.

If my butt really is getting bigger, all I can say is, damn clients!! They're sending gift baskets left and right... we've gotten used to it though and if we've gone more than a day between gift baskets, people go crazy.

I've been to a couple Christmas parties so far this year - besides our office party, I went to a client's holiday party and Jennifer and Brian's Christmas party.

There was a tarot card reader at the client's holiday party so of course, I had to get my cards read... she told me to pick a subject and I chose "Love" because I already love my job and I don't want to change anything about it. My "past" card was something about charity - I supposedly learned in the past that if I gave, I got more in return. (I really learned that if I give, I get screwed over big time). My "present" card was some visionary card that means in the time span of a year, I have to visualize what I want and I will get that or something better. I was thinking, fat chance, he's not moving back to LA and I'm not moving to Florida so I shouldn't waste the "visualization" on him... My future card was the card of change - Mercury or Cancer or some astrological sign is supposed to remove all obstacles in my way to help me get what I want. Hmmmm... All I will say is that if Adriana gets a promotion or gets pregnant between now and April, I will be "visualizing" my ass off until next December!! I'll probably get the something better... someone as amazing as Don but 2-3 inches shorter and maybe a little cuter although Don is cute enough for me - I'm not that shallow anymore.

Almost everyone at Jen and Brian's party is or wants to be a writer or director, so people had some great stories. It is the smallest world though - one of the guys at the party worked for one of our clients and we were trading stories on how crazy the director is, how he can't do much for himself and he makes us waste so much time on the most useless stuff. He had to spend so much time trying to get the name of one of the director's projects changed on IMDB (Internet Movie Database) because it was plural when it shouldn't have been.

Bryant-Malone feud turns personal and ugly - What a troublemaker! This is part of the reason why I haven't watched a Laker game since Dr. Buss decided Kobe was the king of the world... Does the boy get along with anyone?? So this is supposedly what happened... Karl was sitting next to Kobe's wife at a game and he was wearing cowboy boots, etc... so she asks him, "What are you hunting for?" and he says, "little Mexican girls." And she felt uncomfortable enough to tell Kobe and call Karl's wife. All I can say is, I guess she doesn't have a sense of humor either, just like her husband. How are you supposed to answer a question like that anyway - What are you hunting for? One of my co-workers here has her best friend's husband calling her up all the time and telling her "I Love You" and she still hasn't done anything about it... (we do tell her to though but I Love You is different from I'm hunting little Mexican girls).

I raided my niece's CD collection yesterday and now I'm up to 1306 songs on my iPod ~ 3 MB... This thing is amazing - it's gotten me to the gym 3 times in the last week (the iPod and Don - we made a deal that everytime he goes to the gym, I'd go to the gym too... I'm so behind because he has nothing to do all day and he's getting into arguments with his dad all the time so he goes to the gym to cool off). I've been doing a lot of cardio also - I usually hate cardio but when you're on the elliptical machines listening to your music, you don't realize how much time has gone by.

I was catching up on Oprah this weekend and there was a show with one of the writers from Sex and the City, promoting his new book - He's Just Not That Into You. He was saying that if a guy is into you, he'd call when he says he's going to call, he'll give you the attention you want and he'll rise up to make sure he gets to be with you... My question is, if a guy always calls when he says he's going to call and always picks up your calls or calls you back right away even if you woke him up, does that mean he's into you?? Or is he's just doing it because he's the nicest guy in the world? I don't think Don is into me like that (if he was, we'd give the long distance thing a try) but he always calls/calls back - the longest he's taken to call me back was 10 minutes... because he was getting a haircut! :)

Whooooohoo!! There's gonna be a second season of Laguna Beach!! Oh my god. I'm so pathetic.

I'm loving the Amazing Race this year - even more than last year, which would probably be the first time I loved a second season of watching a show more than the first. I love Kris and Jon... not only is Kris a Bruin, but she seems like the nicest person and she and her hot boyfriend are so sweet to each other.

The iPod didn't take too long to load - I just did it wrong. I had a later version of iTunes installed already so the CD program installation didn't complete and I had the iPod plugged into the computer for 8 hours for nothing.

So much to talk about but Nick and Jessica are on and I haven't seen this one so I'm not in the mood to write right now... Shut it. Don't judge me.

I won an ipod at our office Christmas party today! Too tired to say anymore for now... went to Third Street Promenade - Hooters and Yankee Doodles after the party so I'm pooped.

How long does it take this thing to load??

I'm in a good mood because I've talked to Don a couple times this week... I was telling him Justin made me feel better but JT can't cuddle with me and make me warm at night and that its been freezing since he left. He said something about Justin being only one man, there's only so much the guy can do and told me not to wear out the CD and DVD... I was shocked - "How did you know I have the DVD??" (I actually have 2 copies of it but thats beside the point) :)

I'm working 9-noon tomorrow... then we have our office Christmas party! Saturday I have a client's holiday party and next Saturday is a friend's Christmas party too... I need to go shopping and get more dresses. I told Don about the client's holiday party and he was teasing that I'm going to the party to pick up a rich guy. I wanted to take him but he's not here!! (The client is amazingly successful - we just deposited a couple million into his account last week and he got another check this week... only $58k... bummer).

Don called me last night at 11pm (2am over in Florida) to tell me he got to Florida ok... I was sooooo happy to hear from him - I wanted to tell him to call me when he got there but I knew if I told him to, he would definitely do it (he always keeps his word, which is so hard to find in a guy) so I was testing him a little bit to see if he would call without me telling him to. He passed! :) not that it matters; he's still out of my life.

He asked me how my weekend was and I told him I was on my way home from shopping with my friend... he asked if I was good and I said I was - didn't spend a lot of money. I had to get the Justin Timberlake CD again though because I NEEDED it and he laughed at me. Why do guys not understand my Justin Timberlake obsession?? Don knew I was going crazy because I hadn't been able to find that CD for a week. I told him I NEEDED the CD because JT always makes me feel better and he asked, "You were feeling bad??" DUH!! But anyways, I didn't want him to know I got attached... I told him, "Yeah, I lost the best cuddler and best kisser I've ever met, so I NEEDED Justin to make me feel better." He thought that was really sweet...

1 phone call was all it took to get myself out of that little depression. The more I think about him, the more I realize what a great guy he was...

I am going nuts right now... I can't find my Justin Timberlake Justified CD and I need that to help me get through this difficult time. I have his DVD with all his music videos but thats not the same.

I guess the upside to all this is I haven't really eaten too much this weekend and that little belly I have is shrinking... just in time for me to fit into the dress I got for the office Christmas party next week! Adriana just gave me a heads up that I have to give a speech at the party because I'm new so now I have to figure out what I'm going to say.

I said goodbye to Don this morning and I've been crying all day... started 5 minutes after we said goodbye and he told me to take care of myself and not to let Dante ruin my life because I'm too good for that. I know everyone tells me that but coming from Don, I almost started crying right there. I had told him earlier Dante moved back in the week before because he got kicked out of his place and that I really needed to move because as long as I stay at my current apartment, he's going to feel free to come and go as he pleases because this apartment has been under my name for a while and I've been letting roommates move in. If I live with Tony and Marilu, they're not going to let me give him a key so that'll take care of that. I hate confrontation so I'd rather move than deal with stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Replacement boy isn't as cute as I remember... My friend sent us pictures from the fashion show and Marvis obviously doesn't photograph well. He was so much cuter in person! I wasn't drunk that night either.

5 days and counting until my happiness drives out of my life... Don is leaving Saturday at 4am, maybe even sooner if he gets everything done... driving all the way to Florida with his dad. Oh well - fun while it lasted.

I was watching Laguna Beach: The Real OC tonight and one of the girls was talking about how she didn't want to get too close to her boyfriend because he was leaving in 2 months (for college) and she said, "I just don't want to get attached, you know?" I just started laughing because of all the "don't get attached" shit I've been going through lately.

Even with all the crying I'm going to be doing later this week, this month was definitely worth it. I met an amazing guy with extraordinary aspirations for the future and he has made me a better person. He wants a billion dollar empire and he is well on his way to achieving that. How many 22 year olds start a computer networking business, buy a house and give their parents money? AT 22!! He already has a huge job lined up with one of the clients from my job who has a house in Florida also. If this computer networking thing doesn't work out, he can always fall back and be a stockbroker. We were talking the other night and I realized he has the work ethic my dad does. My dad has his flaws but he has achieved so much in his life - my dad didn't even go to high school!! Don and I both grew up with the same values... you KNOW I've been hanging out with ghetto people for way too long if I think not having a kid in your mid-20s (out of wedlock) is an achievement. (no offense to anyone) It was refreshing to hear him say that he wouldn't have a kid until after he got married either.

I am definitely not going back to Dante... that boy hasn't changed! A player will always be a player - don't let them fool you. Remember a couple weeks ago when I said he broke up with his other girlfriends, yada yada yada... um... you break their hearts by telling them you don't want to be with them and you want to be with this other person but they still e-mail you like nothing ever happened? (He left his e-mail up when he used my computer tonight) Yeah, because nothing happened. I had a couple people at work tell me - "he didn't do it in front of you right? How do you know he really did?" Damn, I love the people at work! They make sure I don't forgive Dante!

I got a great opportunity to compare the two this weekend... I went over to Don's apartment Saturday night, hung out with his roommates and co-workers... that night, Don got up 4 times to go throw up (because he had a huge hangover from his friend's engagement party) - he did his best to not wake me up and even though there's an ironing board in the middle of the room, he doesn't turn the light on because its hard to go back to sleep after turning a light on. He's so considerate! Sunday night, Dante comes home at 2:30 am (from hanging out with a girl I bet)... I was fast asleep but he turns on my light, gets on my computer, moves around a lot in my chair (which squeaks like there's no tomorrow) and starts printing out job listings from the internet... that couldn't wait til the morning, you ass?? You've been unemployed 2 months, whats another couple hours?? The printer is freakin loud so I wake up and can't go back to sleep. Did he care?? NOOOOOOOOO.

I have a potential replacement lined up for Don, just in case I ever feel like I want to get back into a relationship with Dante... this guy is supposed to be really sweet and everything too. My friend had a fashion show last weekend and he was one of the models... black, tall and amazingly cute. My friend said he's single, just moved to LA a couple months ago (so he won't be moving to Florida anytime soon) and she met him at a supermarket because he thought she was someone he knew and she thought he was someone she knew but they didn't know each other :). Her husband doesn't like her being friends with the guy so she has been trying to set him up with people just to get her husband off her back. How does she meet guys like that at Ralphs and I just meet Ralphs workers??

Other than that, my life is finally complete... the OC is back and the Amazing Race is on...

It is amazing how one person can just brighten up your day when you hear from them unexpectedly... no, I'm not getting attached but when Don IMed me tonight with the kissy face, I just couldn't stop smiling. I spent the weekend with him, his roommate and his brother and it was fun. His family is just freakishly tall - he's 6'3, his brother is 6'2 and they're both skinny.

I was just staring at Dante the other day and I couldn't see what I loved so much about him for all those years... He's finally realized he loves me the way I loved him for 3 1/2 years but I don't have those feelings for him anymore. Dante has been crying over me all week and I just don't care anymore. He told me the other day, if I promise to love you and cherish you and be faithful to you but you can't talk or see him ever again, can you do it? NOOOOOOOO... Actually, I didn't have to say that - my silence was enough. I can't give up any time with Don, even if we only have 2 weeks left. Don is the one who brightens up my day now.

AMAZING RACE TUESDAY!!! WHOOOOHOO! And Elf comes out on DVD that day too... Can't wait!

Why do I keep saving the posts as drafts and not posting them?? The POST button is a bright orange one!!

Everything is ok now between me and Mr. Don't Get Attached. He brightened my day before I got off work yesterday by inviting me to the gym with him and everything seems normal now. I bench pressed for the first time in my life... 45 lbs (which is the weight of the bar without any weights on it) - I usually avoid the hardcore weights part of the gym but he forced me to work out with him. It was nice - I'm getting sore now but my muscles look amazing. We had to rush because he wanted to be home in time for South Park though :) . He had me spend the night over there too and everything is cool again.

So Mr. Perfect found a way to piss me off, and I'm glad he did...

We were cuddling in bed last night and I said, "I love cuddling with you" and all of the sudden he says, "You're not getting attached are you??" I say, "I know I can't" and he says, "Good, no attachments." That pissed me off and I said, "We can still be FRIENDS right???" GEEZ! After that he slept with his back to me the whole night... whats up with that??

I was analyzing it a little too much with co-workers this morning... Did he think I said, "I love you" and not "I love cuddling with you??" How can you miss cuddling?? It's a 2 syllable word!!

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I just told him this morning, "YOU call me when you want to hang out.... I don't want to feel like I'm forcing you to hang out and I don't want to take you away from your friends your last couple weeks here." We'll see what happens...

On the other hand, Dante has been crying, pouring his heart out to me lately... even breaking up with all his other girlfriends just because of me. I've seen him upset over girls before, even one he loved way more than me but it didn't last as long as it's lasting now. He's never gone to the extreme of breaking up with his other girlfriends either... Can people change?? I know everyone is going to kick my ass if I take him back though.

I am going to be crying so much the end of this month... it was stupid of me to go into a relationship when I know I only have a month with the guy before he moves out of the state but it was completely worth it. This past week has been amazing and it has completely changed my attitude towards Dante. This was the final push I needed to get over him and now he's on the other end - begging me to spend time with me, calling me just to chat (and getting the voice mail when he calls), telling me he loves me and he misses me, etc... and I'm the one who really doesn't care anymore. Dante is just an annoyance, just like I was to him for 3 years... I don't get excited anymore when he calls. In fact, the other day I was in the car with Maria and we were having fun because we had just made plans with Don on the phone and we were on our way to meet him... Dante calls, wants to chat, I don't feel like it and he could sense it. Before he hung up, he said I love you and I just couldn't say it back to him. He got upset, said, I'll never say I love you to you again and I just said, "Bye" and hung up the phone. What goes around comes around... he had been doing that to me for 3 years and now he wants to change? Too little too late buddy! I was just crying myself to sleep the day before I started dating Don... Dante had spent the night that night and was in bed with me but he was talking on the phone for 2 freakin hours to an ex trying to get her back. I even went into the living room for an hour to talk on the phone with Nozomi because I was so upset / pissed off / sad. Now I'm supposed to forget all that? HA!

Don is an complete change from Dante - I know it's early but its just the little things - the way a person grew up, the way they treat people, the values they have and the determination they have to succeed. Don wants to build his billion dollar empire and I completely believe he can. He's 22 now but he has a lot of investments (I'm 26 and what are investments?) (I know what you're thinking right now but we're only 3 1/2 years apart, if that makes it better). He's moving to Florida because his parents are retired down there, he's going to buy a house and start his own computer networking company. He also has a Series 3 (stockbrokers?) license and he coulda made a lot of money in that but he hated the cold calls and the whole environment so he went back to computers 2 months later. Don is sooooo nice to people - everyone here loves him and Maria loved him when she had dinner with us last Saturday. Don also told me, "I'm great with parents too." DON'T tell me that when I know we only have a month! He got mad at me when I was telling Maria about one of the partners here at work everyone makes fun of (he got a new Porsche Carrera and new teeth recently - yea I said TEETH (caps) - and everyone makes fun of the way he talks now... plus he's a dwarf (upper body is normal sized, legs just really really short). The partner is a really nice guy but it's just so easy to make fun of him... anyway, Don got mad at me because he feels sorry for the guy. There's also another girl here most people don't like but I can't say anything to Don because he thinks she's the nicest person (he says she's the girl who works in a group project and does all the work and lets everyone have all the credit but we don't like her because she is anal and the girl who works with her is always complaining because she never has anything to do)... He gives me shit for being one of those people who cut in on the Cloverfield exit so I don't do it anymore (the right-most lane of the freeway is always packed in the morning and it turns into two lanes at the exit but everyone sticks to the right most lane of the exit so if you're in the next lane on the freeway, you can cut in at the exit and still make your right turn, if that makes any sense at all)... Whats wrong with this guy, turning me into a nice person again? Whats up with that??

This weekend was so fun... A partner offered us tickets to the UCLA - Washington game and I was the first to jump on that so I got to go... he had 4 tix, 45 yard line with Lot F (SO CLOSE) parking included. Maria wanted to go and I hadn't seen her in a while so we went with her supervisor (brownie points for her, DirecTV connections for my company :))... Game sucked - too many turnovers and we missed a 2 point conversion at the end of the game so we lost by 2. After the game Maria and I made plans to meet up with Don at a restaurant... she loved him... she hated Dante from the day she met him almost 4 years ago and I should have listened to her. Anyway, after dinner Don and I walked back to his apartment and there were flowers there waiting for me. I spent the night with him and his friends (one of his roommates comes by our company also doing computer stuff) just watching movies and having fun. The next morning he cooks me breakfast - he cooks! After breakfast I fall asleep and he sees me sleeping so he just cuddles with me and I didn't realize we took a 2 hour nap until his dad called him. His parents are so excited to have him move to Florida. It was just a nice fun relaxing weekend - one that I haven't had in a long time...

TOO BAD HE'S LEAVING!! :( And neither of us want a long distance relationship and I'm not going to leave my job (after 4 years of working I've finally found a job I want to stay 10+ years at) so at the end of the month, thats that.

Good day today...

Don called me when I was at work... just to say hi! Wow, another amazing concept. Ass Dante only calls to ask for money or ask how to do stuff. We talked on the phone for 2 hours last night and it was just great. I love the people at work so when I'm talking about them, he knows who I'm talking about and he tells me other shit about these people. I'm totally seeing the difference between these 2 guys and even when Don moves to Florida, I'm not going back to Dante. Dante is changing his behavior, trying to be sweet but he just annoys the hell out of me now.

Yesterday I had a tax refund check for a client... Adriana and I thought it was 98k and we were amazed at how much he paid in taxes if he got 98k back federal. Today I was doing the deposit and I realize, it's not 98k... its 986k!! I thought I entered too many numbers. I thought his CA tax refund was 26k, turns out it's 265k. Amazing. The client is awesome though - he started from nothing and you can imagine how much he made if he got 986k back in federal taxes. Wish people would stop talking about the top 1% getting back whatevers in taxes... if you paid $400 in taxes, do you expect to get more than that back?? The client paid millions in taxes to get that amount back, so we should hate them because they got more $$ back right? These people do help the economy a lot, believe me... I've seen their credit card statements.

I don't know where to start... the last 3 days have been amazing. I'm just taking the last steps to finally get rid of the loser in my life :).

So I started dating this new guy - one of the computer guys who comes around our office every now and then. We spent 45 mins talking in the kitchen last Friday at work even though both of us had so much to do and when my co-workers were going out, I invited him to come along but he had some more computers to set up. (perfect opportunity to exchange numbers - call me when you're done so I can tell you where we're at and come join us). Anyway, long story short, we hung out Saturday night and Sunday night (drove back from OC Saturday just to spend time with him, drove back to OC the next morning) and he's such a refreshing change from Dante. When we went to dinner Saturday night, he paid! Yeah, what a concept huh?? When you date a broke loser for so long, you just don't realize how much easier life can be. Don is employed and sooo responsible. He's young but he put himself through college, he has a lot of investments and he's moving to Florida in a month to buy a house there and watch over his parents (who he gives money to every month). Geez, way more responsible than I am!! I'm still the spoiled brat who gets money when I go back to OC to see my parents... Dante came by this morning to use my computer, etc (he spends the entire day here on the computer "working" and I don't know what the hell he's doing - you can only take so much porn right?) and he had the nerve to ask me if I had $10 so he could get some pants out of the tailor. "Didn't I give you $10 for that a month ago???" Aargh!! That was just the last straw - we got into a huge argument about everything and I got my key back from him (which means nothing because he can always climb through the window like he does if he forgets the key). Dante knew I was talking to someone new and he knew I was out Saturday night because he came over and I wasn't here but my car was. He came over first thing Sunday morning just to make sure I wasn't in bed with the guy. WTF! I got so pissed off about that because he's been with so many girls since we broke up a while ago but I can't date another guy?

Anyways, at the office today - Jon comes straight out and says, "so you hooked up with Don?" so everyone was teasing me about it. Jon started asking me "did you see his hard drive?" "...input?" "did he give you a virus?" etc., just being stupid but thats what I love about my co-workers - everyone is goofy and most of us get along so well we can talk/joke about anything. Don has been coming by the office the last four years so they feel like they saw him grow up. Why does everyone mention his big feet?? Thats not why I started seeing him!! He's tall, he has to have big feet. He's just the sweetest guy but because Dante is the only other boyfriend I've ever had, I was hurt so much it is hard for me to believe any guy can be sweet. I was just asking people - tell me something bad about Don! No one had anything bad to say, by the way. I remember when I first started dating Dante and he met my friends, no one liked him. I shoulda listened.

allright, I'm too drunk to post but here's the jest of what happened tonight:

Lucyla8: h3y
Lucyla8: oops hey :-)
wndrndstny: hi
Lucyla8: i'm drunk right now
wndrndstny: (^^;
Lucyla8: but i met this guy today
Lucyla8: actually, i've known him a couple months
wndrndstny: k. was wondering if that was someone else at your comp
Lucyla8: our computer guy
wndrndstny: ooh
Lucyla8: just came home - got drunk with co-workers
Lucyla8: and the computer guy joined us
Lucyla8: he's cute
wndrndstny: yea, but you said you get drunk really easy tho. how much did you drink? ;-)
Lucyla8: and everyone seems to think he likes me :-)
Lucyla8: 2 drinks
Lucyla8: but the first one was at 5pm
Lucyla8: the last one was at midnight
wndrndstny: oh boy... (^^;;;;;
wndrndstny: you are WAY too weak if you
wndrndstny: 're tipsy at 2 drinks
wndrndstny: =)
Lucyla8: i'm totally weak
Lucyla8: thats why the guy drove me home
wndrndstny: woohoo~
Lucyla8: marilu and jon planned it like that
wndrndstny: go lucy =)
wndrndstny: nice =]
Lucyla8: i gave him a hug
Lucyla8: we might hang out tomorrow
Lucyla8: he's totally cute though
Lucyla8: good future too
wndrndstny: woohoo~~~ (^^)v
Lucyla8: i cant believe how much i like this guy
Lucyla8: we were in the kitchen talking for about an hour today
Lucyla8: and they said he usually doesnt go out but he went out with us because i was going
wndrndstny: score~ =]
Lucyla8: totally
Lucyla8: BUT
wndrndstny: well, not like that.
wndrndstny: ;-)
wndrndstny: you know what i mean, right?
Lucyla8: he's moving to florida the weekend after thanksgiving
wndrndstny: =]
Lucyla8: :-(
Lucyla8: buying a huge house for 145k
wndrndstny: wow
wndrndstny: doh
wndrndstny: but wow
Lucyla8: he was telling me to move out there with him
Lucyla8: i can be his bookkeeper
Lucyla8: does that mean he likes me? :-)
Lucyla8: oh shit
wndrndstny: uh... duh? =]
Lucyla8: i'm actually here at my apt with no car
wndrndstny: yep
Lucyla8: i gotta call someone tomorrow to take me to work
wndrndstny: have him pick you up tmrw so you can hang out and go get your car =]
Lucyla8: he said he'd do it but he has to be at another job at 9am
Lucyla8: i am soooo happy i found a guy i like who i think likes me and who doesnt gross me out
Lucyla8: :-)
wndrndstny: (^^)v
Lucyla8: he's really tall though
Lucyla8: one of my co-workers kept pointing out the size of his feet!!
Lucyla8: wtf
wndrndstny: ooh, how tall? =]
Lucyla8: heehee
wndrndstny: LOL
Lucyla8: i think 6'6
wndrndstny: wow. nice
Lucyla8: what, the size of his feet? :-) heehee
wndrndstny: 6' 6". you know how i'd been saying how i would want a guy that's taller than me? heck, that's plenty tall
Lucyla8: totally
wndrndstny: hmm... size of feet... b-ball players
wndrndstny: (^^)
Lucyla8: then alicia had to ruin it for me by saying she thinks he has a hairy butt
Lucyla8: heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
wndrndstny: lol
wndrndstny: ewwww
Lucyla8: we dont know
Lucyla8: its a rumor
Lucyla8: thats ok
Lucyla8: it can always be shaved
wndrndstny: ROFLOL
wndrndstny: by you? ;-)
Lucyla8: heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Lucyla8: he kept telling me to just crash at his place otnight
wndrndstny: oooooh
wndrndstny: ;-)
Lucyla8: i cant be easy though!! :-)
Lucyla8: but i like him a lot
wndrndstny: true
Lucyla8: i havent felt this way about anybody in a long tme
Lucyla8: and jon and marilu knew i liked don and they thought he liked me so they helped it along
Lucyla8: jon wanted don to take me to my car so he made up this sotry about how he's taking marilu home
wndrndstny: nice friends =)
Lucyla8: totally
Lucyla8: he knows i think dante is a loser, jon kept emphasizing that i'm single
wndrndstny: ni~ce (^^)v go jon!
Lucyla8: oh and one more thing
Lucyla8: that makes him perfect
Lucyla8: he's a republican!!
wndrndstny: LOL
Lucyla8: met my one requirement
Lucyla8: oops 2 requirements - employed and republican
wndrndstny: =]

CBS's rescheduled 'The Amazing Race 6' lands weeknight time period, resurgent series to premiere November 16 - ahhhhhhh, finally!! I can't wait for the show to start up again even though I'll probably love last season more than I love this season. Have the first 4 seasons of Amazing Race been as good as last season??

I was coding a client's credit card bill (breaking down charges into categories) yesterday and he went to New Zealand last month. We usually talk about how our clients have all this money and they go on the boringest trips to Hawaii, Hamptons, London, etc... nowhere super exotic like Tahiti, Fiji... and they don't do anything but sit/walk around spending money. Anyways, this client goes to New Zealand and I see Zorb and Skydiving on his credit card bill. Now THAT'S a vacation!!

I am soooooooo pissed at UCLA right now... the dumbasses who work in Murphy Hall. I've been waiting a month for the CPA Board to approve me to sign up for the exam and I get a letter today - you do not meet the education requirements... WTF??? The letter said that I didn't get a degree, according to the official transcripts. I look at the enclosed transcript and it was dated 7/26/00 - I graduated in December. I KNOW I filled out that stupid transcript request form right but I guess these braindead idiots thought I finished before Fall 2000. When it says, "Last Semester Attended" you write the last semester you were there right?? I always put Fall 2000 when asked when I graduated. Now I have to call the CPA Board and tell them what happened and hope they don't take another freakin month to review my app after the UCLA admin idiots send it again. I have to go to Murphy Hall and show them what I DON'T want them to send - do I have to pay them again for this shit?? Freakin idiots... I shoulda known. My roommate works as one of these people at LMU and you already know what I think of her.

Anyway, to update you guys on everything that has happened this past month...

Dante moved out, yada yada yada... I have more money in my pockets now because everytime he asks me for money now, I say, "Don't you have money? You can't pay me back the money you owe me but you have money to waste on rent." That gets the job done everytime. I also find myself more annoyed at him... you know how you look at someone and you think, why am I associating myself with this idiot?? Yeah, I feel that a lot. I hate how he plays music loud in the car (so FREAKIN GHETTO). I hate how I have to explain how to do stuff step by step with him and I already KNOW he's going to mess it up. I got a new computer last weekend (XP finally! whoohoo) and all day at work, I'm worried about how he is messing up my computer here at home. I hate how he's too good to put the cap back on the toothpaste and how he uses a ton of toilet paper each time (you can get by with 5 squares or less to wipe your ass, he just lets it roll). I have premium toilet paper too (Cottonelle), not the shit you steal from work. I hate how he leaves food out and I have to throw it away because it goes bad... I should stop... I want to finish this post sometime within the next hour! Oh - but I need to add this - I didn't talk to him for a week after he was telling me how he watched Fahrenheit 911 and he believed that it was all true. I don't need to be around stupidity like that.

D: "I saw a picture of Bush shaking Osama Bin Laden's hand".
ME: "So? I have a picture of Mike Tyson biting some baby's ear off. Does that make it real?"
D: "But they wouldn't put it in a movie if it weren't true."
ME: "Yeah, Hollywood doesn't make shit up. All those movies out there are TRUE stories. They wouldn't do a 60 Minutes news report based on false documents either. You're right. Michael Moore doesn't exaggerate at all."

God, I'm so glad I'm surrounded by intelligent people at work. People who I can hold a decent conversation with. Most of the time we're laughing about something or other. I've spent way too much time with co-workers lately. We go lots of places together - Knott's Scary Farm, Yankee Doodles (for pool, foosball, etc), the mall, and of course - drinking after work. I'm not too much of a drinker though - 1 strawberry daquiri is enough for me.

Remember how we used to be up early to get to amusement parks before they open (8am)? And stay til it closes(2am)? We got to Knott's Scary Farm at 7:00 pm (they closed the office early because the partners knew a bunch of us were going to Knott's Scary Farm and because they wanted to go to the Dodgers game that night) and by midnight I was sooooooo tired. We went into one last maze and I was just screaming at anything because I was exhausted. It didn't help that Jon kept telling the people there to scare "these 2 girls" (me and Marilu).

Work is going so well. I can't believe I'm finally at a place where I am HAPPY! I don't dread going into work, I go in on Saturdays sometimes just for the hell of it because a couple people are going in too and because I always have something to finish up. I can't believe how busy this job is! I have so many little projects pending but I never get to them because there is so much work. We got another new client in the last couple weeks - a model - Victoria's Secret, Sports Illustrated, blah blah blah - good for her, but the one thing she's done that I am SOOOOOOOOOO unbelievably jealous of her for is she was "the girl" in a Justin Timberlake video. Lucky girl.

The client with that 3.5 million dollar life insurance check has been driving us nuts lately. Her husband died a couple months ago and he was the earner in the family. Their house is paid off, she has millions in jewelry, furnishings and artwork, they have millions in investments and the bank, she gets about 2 mil a year from his royalties, etc... and she's worried about running out of money because there is no new income. She was asking me how much the messengers cost, we cancelled a couple phone lines just to save money. Oh my god - the problems of the rich. We were talking about this and Caymi says, "What?? Run out of money? Thats every week!!"

There has been nothing "Must See" good on TV lately. Just the usual shows. I did add Desperate Housewives to my TiVo though - thats the only show I can't wait to watch. Joey is ok, but not something I'll drop everything to watch. In fact, when The OC starts up again, I might even skip Joey. Apprentice (go Kelly - just cause he's from UCLA) and America's Next Top Model (go Norelle, because Republican Kristi was eliminated already) are good too but I don't look forward to every show the way I did with The Amazing Race. Arrrrgh, I'm still waiting to find out when that show is going to start up again.

All right, thats it for now - I need to go get some In 'N Out so I'll be digested and ready to work out at 10pm. Some Red Bull will help too.

I was trying to finish this entry with a long ramble before I posted it but forget it, it's been too long and so many things have changed... it's easier to just start a new entry.

Ok, so now the biggest check I've held in my hands (to deposit) is $3.5 million. (It was a life insurance check though).

I've been crying a lot the last two days because Dante is moving and although I know it's good for me, I will miss him a lot... I also realized just how little I mean to him and that gets me depressed because I have given him everything I could, I sacrificed a lot for him and in many ways I ruined my life for him, and he shows his appreciation by treating me like shit and putting everyone else priority over me.

Ok, so who wants a Gmail invitation?? I have 6 to give away... Are they still doing this by invitation only??

Nice to get all that out...

I swear, if I didn't have a job I love so much at an amazing company, I'd have gone postal by now. (do people still use that expression, go postal?)

I'm sure every company is like this but when you were at an awful place like my last job, you appreciate things soooo much more. It's so nice to work around young people!! My last job was all old ladies and cranky partners. I've always said I wanted a work life like Ally McBeal and a friends life like Friends... 1 out of 2 is better than nothing. We don't have that unisex bathroom but do automatic flushing toilets count for anything? :) We've been doing that "going drinking at the bar downstairs after work" thing a lot lately. A bunch of us are planning on going to a male strip club soon - we just have to find one that isn't far from us and is open on Saturday. We do the beach volleyball thing every Thursday, but I think we're gonna change it to bowling now because I don't think we'd have enough time to play a couple games at the beach after work before it gets dark.

It's not just the people at work, I love what I do and I love the clients we have. I love joking about these people too - how some of them can't do anything on their own except charge on their credit cards... Sometimes when I'm explaining to people what I do, they ask, "they pay people to do that?" (pay bills, etc) and I say back, "if you're rich enough, you can pay anyone to do anything." One of the clients I work on pays someone to come in once a week and CHANGE LIGHTBULBS!! Can you believe that? :) One of my favorite parts from Ocean's Eleven was in the beginning when Topher Grace was talking about how his business manager wants him to write checks to Brad Pitt because he can take it as a "research" deduction and checks are receipts. Thats what we do! Whoo, shout out.

A bunch of us were in the kitchen at lunch today talking about reality shows and we got into that show - "Fabulous Life of..." and some people were saying it makes them depressed watching that show. Lorena and I were like, "that makes you depressed but working on our client accounts doesn't??" Lorena said she has held a $30 million check in her hands... I think the most I've had is that $540,000 from earlier this week, but I've only been at this job 2 months :).

How many times do you have to tell someone something before you have a right to be pissed off?? "GIVE ME SOME ROOM WHEN YOU PARK IN THE FUCKING DRIVEWAY!!" Aargh!! I'm sure I've ranted about this a million times but we have tandem parking here, they gave us a long driveway and my roommate parks where no one else can get behind her. We fit 3 freakin cars in the driveway all the time and she has to take up the whole space?? If she can't fit in the first spot like she insists (which is impossible because I park my car in there all the time, Dante zips into the spot in his Mustang, my ex roomies have fit a 4-Runner and a big ass Mitsubishi Montero in there), then she should be parking her crappy ass dented/scratched up GEO PRIZM in the street instead of me trying to find street parking all the time for my newly repaired Audi A4. It's not like parking is so easy to find around here. She doesnt even have to fit her car in the first spot, just pull in a little bit... but the bitch doesn't even try. I've told her a million times to park her car right. A couple weeks ago, I just told her straight out, I just spent $2300 fixing my car, I don't want to park that shit on the street. She was good for a day! Whoo, I think that was too much to ask. I came home late one night last week and I couldn't find any street parking, so I called her to move her car up. She wasn't even home!! I ended up parking WAYYYYYYY down the street and she knew I was so pissed off because she kept calling me apologizing... that didn't teach her though. She did it again tonight!! I couldn't find parking tonight, I drive by MY SPOT and there's her car taking up the entire driveway again. I came up and asked her AGAIN if she can park right. She said, "I'm leaving in a couple minutes" and 30 mins later, she's still here! I told her tonight, "I don't care if you're leaving soon, I'll move my freakin car when you need to leave, I just don't want to have to walk down the block after dealing with traffic on the way home from work." We'll see if that gets into her dumbass head.

Aargh, next time this happens again (and I KNOW there's gonna be a next time), I'm just gonna go off... hmmm, maybe I need to delete this post so there's no evidence...

1 episode of Amazing Race left!!! The finale of Big Brother (go Drew!) is also next Tuesday. What am I going to do after next week? The Apprentice just feels weird this season because everyone is a freakin nut.

Lets see what Frank Abagnale Jr. (Catch Me if You Can) has to say about the Bush memos...

CBS, I love you for reasons I can't say on this public online journal, but I'm so disappointed in you. You've been screwed big time twice this year!! Once by my boy, Justin Timberlake and again just now by these memos.

Ooooh - this just in - Newly Unearthed Bush National Guard Memo...

Just a heads up on today's Oprah show... amazing.

All this money flying around lately!! Gets me depressed. A client got a tax refund check for $55,000 last week... this week another client gets a huge huge check for his producing fees on his show - guess how much... naw, you won't guess... this is for 3 episodes of his show - $540,000 and he gets another check for the royalties on that show - the royalties are for more episodes (5) - $90,000. Clients who don't get as much income are getting huge checks this week too!!

I love this job but it just makes me realize what I don't and probably never will have. I finally got off my ass and turned in my application for my CPA exams but even that won't get me to the level these people are at!

Thats part of the reason why I've been depressed lately... I've been going through that quarter life crisis thing again, this time its been more depressing than ever. Nevermind that 2 of my closest friends are getting married and I lost my "back-up".... I make good money here (comparatively) but it's still not enough! Freakin dumbass girl who rear ended me last month wasn't insured!! Her policy lapsed 2 years ago so I have to pay my deductible and the rental car even though I wasn't at fault... her 'insurance' even had the nerve to send me a letter asking me to describe the accident! Every time I think I'll be ok financially "after this paycheck" something comes up beyond my control. I can't live my whole life like this!!

Anyway, I'll get more into all that later - can't blog too much while I'm at work... been so busy but I'm still loving it!

TWoP Forums - Hottest Olympians - this is the BEST message board on the internet! :) After watching Aleksei Nemov and the way he handled the bullshit gymnast judging, I'll add him to my list of hottest guys... I first saw Alexander Popov sooooooo long ago and he's so cute I still remember him. Oh my god, I just googled him and found this... I think I'm gonna faint heehee. Alexander's nickname is the Russian Rocket and I think Aleksei's is Sexy Aleksei... Why hadn't I noticed him before??? He's totally classy.

I haven't had time to read the whole message board to find new meat :) but I'll get to it eventually. This is just too fun.

Sooooooooooooo much shit to talk about - It's been a long time since I wrote in this journal... I'll sit down later tomorrow night (technically, tonight) and just write.

Bush Family Gathers for Wedding in Maine - DAMMIT!! This week just gets worse and worse... George P. Bush is married now. He was such a cutie 4 years ago at the Republican convention. Lucky girl.

I was rear ended on the freeway yesterday when I was trying to get to work after a doctor's appointment. I was 2 exits away, I saw traffic coming up so I slowed down and came to a stop behind the car in front of me... then BAMM! Some car hits me, I hit the car in front of me and she hits the car in front of her. The accident wasn't bad but now my car is running like shit. It sounds like one of those crappy fixed up cars (why the hell do people do that to their cars voluntarily?? All that noise... GEEZ). My car is sooooo sturdy though because the car behind me was scrunched up in the front, my car was only scratched badly (she did dent the trunk though) in the back, and barely scratched in the front. I can say that my brakes are awesome. Argh, it's been like 3 weeks since I got it out of the shop and its going right back in the shop. I'm not mad about the accident (they happen) but I'm mad that I have to go out of my way now to get the shit fixed... and because I don't have a rental car on my policy, I have to go to a body shop and have them say my car is undriveable before I can go rent a car and make the other insurance pay for it... and it's Saturday so NOTHING is open until Monday... that means I'm stuck home for the weekend :(.

I've had a couple of crappy weeks lately. At least I'm tan now... I've been at the beach every Saturday with Amy the past 3 weeks and I've finally started to tan!! Thank you SPF 15.

Oh - by the way, there's a party at the Santa Monica beach (by the Jonathan Club) tonight at 8pm... some cute lifeguard invited us but Amy had to go home and I'm not going to that by myself. Lifeguard party :) closest thing to heaven in Santa Monica.

FOXSports.com - Lakers trade Payton, Fox to Celtics -WTF WTF WTF WTF... Alright, thats it for me. I might still watch but only if there is absolutely nothing to do.

I found something at American Eagle I HAVE to have!! Boy Briefs - I want the pink ones... check out what it says on the back of that one :)...

The sun completely hates me... I've been out at the beach so much this summer and I'm only semi-tan, if tan at all... My barometer for "tanness" is if my mom yells at me. She hasn't yet :(. Amy and I go lay out at the beach for 4 hours every Saturday and I've been playing volleyball there Thursdays after work... I think my sunblock works too well. I bought that new Coppertone Ultrasheer Sunscreen and I love that thing!! It makes your skin so soft, it doesn't feel like you have sunscreen on because it's not oily and sand doesn't stick to you. I need to go get the SPF 15 instead of the 30 though. Last time I went to Target, they were sold out of all the Ultrasheer Sunscreen.

Red Bull is amazing. It keeps me awake in class so you know thats powerful shit. You know what's better than Red Bull? FREE Red Bull! They moved their headquarters to a building across the street from us and they've been giving us a free carton every week. Last week, I took one on my way to class just in case the one I drank before I left for class wasn't enough... turns out it was enough, so I put it in my fridge for later, just in case I felt like working out. Dante took it before I got a chance - he loved it and told me to get more... they're freakin expensive if you buy it anywhere! Everyone in our office is addicted to it so it's hard for me to have more than 1 or 2 a week, so I went to Costco to get some - $31.95 for 24 cans!! Can you believe that? I also saw them on sale at Ralphs this week - $6.99 for 4. That's no sale!!

Speaking of Ralphs, I was there last Sunday and I must've not had any Red Bull in me because I wasn't thinking straight. There's a ghetto Ralphs I go to sometimes because it's close - everytime I go, this one guy always starts flirting with me, etc. He looks EXACTLY like Erik from O-Town (shoot me for knowing that) and I thought he was kinda cute so when he asked me for my #, I gave it to him... Afterwards, I was thinking, 'the guy freakin works at Ralphs! What did I do that for?? I'm supposed to talk to guys on my level.' but it was too late. So this guy calls me later that night at like 11:30p and wants to "hang out". Yeah, I wasn't born yesterday... plus I dated a player so I know... "hang out"?? pfft. He calls the next night at 11:00p... I tell him I'm tired. He calls 2 nights later at 10:00p, I'm busy. The next night at 10:00p, I was taking a nap cause I was so tired from volleyball. I know I told the guy I had an on/off boyfriend but I don't remember if I told him I lived with the guy... I'll do that next time he calls. I've just been avoiding his calls the last couple days. Maria and I figured out what our problems were - we aren't going to give anyone a chance until Bruce tells Maria he met someone or Dante tells me it's OVER over. (It's been over for a while, but not OVER over)... I think Bruce is waiting for Maria to tell him she met someone, so that one is gonna take a while too.

Brandy's Sneaky Marriage Secret - haaaaaa... I hate Brandy.

So-so day today - one of our big clients died last night and another big client got his job back after begging and begging (and for that job, I'd beg too)... Oh, and the Daily Variety is reporting that Will Ferrell is in talks to star in a movie another client wrote... even if the movie script sucked (which I hope it doesn't, because our clients are better than that!), Will can make it funny and make it huge.