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.