Back to just one. Don't have time to create all three. Just have no time right now. I graduate in 11 days, I'm stressed out beyond all belief.
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I started summer school today and already want my summer break back :) I'm so tired :c

-angeles
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Hey all! :)

Well, I finished school a year ago. I'm totally alone here!:p

Ah, well I'm starting uni in September.. I can't wait because where I live there's not even a record shop, which is absolutely *killing* me, but it's good in a way because I won't spend all my money on CDs I don't necessarily want.

Yay, I'm happy, I just downloaded the audiogalaxy thing and it's so great! There's nearly 9000 Tori Amos things to download!!! I'd better get cracking if I want to get them all! ;b
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Ohh yeah, forgot to mention my French Translation test today. It went ok. It took me the full 2 hours I was allotted.(damn and I thought I was good at translation) I hope I passed it. I know there are a couple things I didn't translate right. But I had to translate a version of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. I just went and looked up what the legend was, and for the most part I translated it correctly. There was one thing, that I realize now, that I couldn't translate without knowing the legend itself (which isn't fair, some people just don't know mythology! and I'm one of them) And if I didn't pass it, I can scramble to get the "waiver of residence" approved to take the test after I am finished with my classes.

I got the results today.

This is the only thing I was worried about, becuase if I didn't pass I didn't know what I'd have to do.


I PASSED!!!!!!!

Wheee! So I am as good as I thought with translation ;)

Anaximenes--I love Audiogalaxy. Mainly because my favorite band, The Delphines, aren't a very well known band. And still, on Audiogalaxy, I found THREE unreleased songs from them! Ones that the band's webmaster didn't even know about! And they were good songs too.
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I haven't heard of The Delphines. What kind of music do they do?
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Blues-y Rock music is what they play. The guitarist of the Delphines is Kathy Valentine, bassist of The Go-Go's, but the two bands couldn't be any more different. My dearest buddy Leina Rose got my hooked on them. :) There's a whole big fat thread in Lesser Known Artists about them right now, and its pretty much just Leina and I discussing them, with the occasional post from someone else. If this kinda music is up your alley, check them out. Since I know you play guitar, I think you'd like them. Kathy Valentine, though more well known as a bassist, KICKS ASS on guitar. (And she too is a Fender girl ;))

(and on a totally unrelated topic-POOOOO YUCK instant coffee is crap!)

*edit* My avatar is one of my favorite pictures of the Delphines, and my user status line "likes lo-fi better" is from a song of theirs :)
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Okay, well, I'll check them out tomorrow when I've got loads of time. :) Well, I say 'tomorrow', but over here it IS tomorrow already, but I haven't gone to bed yet.

I'll add them to my queue on Audiogalaxy.. but it might take a while since I already have a thousand million Tori songs right now.. in the mean time are there any songs you would recommend?

**yawns and goes to bed**
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I'm pretty sure you can find all of these on Audiogalaxy: (and if not, let me know, I have mp3's of them all)


I Want You the Way That I Want You
Chick
Crazy
Kopperhead
Delphine's Desire (this one really showcases Kathy's guitar playing skill, which is why I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song :O)
Rock Star (I KNOW you can get this one on AG, that's where I found it)
Smile Pretty (this one is on AG too)
I Idolize You
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I'm going to vent here because I know you all actually listen (unlike those in OIT)... I'm in a sad mood this evening. Today started off at 7:30, after 5 hours of sleep... I had to sit through Thomas and the Magic Railroad (what a completely mundane movie!). My fiance's car broke down on him so he was in a bad mood, and he has his kid this weekend and he was being a brat today. I called Blockbuster today and they said they didn't know when they were going to be hiring even though I was up there the other day and one of the managers told me they are going to be hiring for 2 more people... What upsets me the most though, is that me and one of my good friends was suppose to go out and have some fun tonight, go see a movie, or go shopping, whatever. We never ever see each other or really talk anymore so I was really looking forward to seeing her. I was waiting for her to call me after work, so I could go pick her up. She did call, but instead of talking to me, she talked to my little sister. She told my little sister to tell me that she didn't feel like going out tonight... That makes me mad and sad and disgusted, and just all together upset because she was supposed to be one of my good friends and if she didn't want to go, all she had to say when I called her is she didn't want to go out, but instead, to please me she said she would. But then she decided not to tell me, but to have my sister tell me. It kinda like explains to me in full force what our friendship is. And that really bites because I love her like my own sister.

I feel like having a good cry.

-angeles
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That 'friend' was out of order! :s

I'm pretty ruthless with friends. It means I'm always lonely, but it's better than being unhappy in a friendship. I've been really badly treated by 'friends' in the past, and I just got rid of them. It means I live a solitary life, but now I don't have to worry about being let down. :)

Go and have that cry! It'll do you the world of good. Listen to a song that makes you angry or sad and cry your heart out; you'll feel better afterwards. ;b
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VenusFetish-Why not just go alone, have some fun by yourself? Will you have friends going? If so, I don't think it would be so bad if you went stag and just saw it as a last chance to have fun with high school friends. I really wish I had done this with MY senior ball/prom. I didn't go becuase I didn't have a date.

angeles-that's just one of those things that makes you wonder, why is she even your friend, if she does things like that.

My husband and I REALLY need to stop going to just "look" at cars. Both times we did that (last year and just this weekend), we came home with new ones. Now we both have new cars. We just went to look at Dodge Neons after our psych final on saturday. We got a pretty good deal on one. Before tax, license and fees, the car was 9998. We added a couple maintenance plans to it for a couple reasons. 1-this is the hubby's car and he's HORRIBLE with remembering to do maintenance on cars. So this way, its all taken care of for him. Plus, it helped reduce our interest rate, since I have decent credit, but the husband is rebuilding his credit. We're gonna do the same thing with this car that we did with mine, any extra money goes to paying the car off. My husband gets quarterly bonuses (and the next one he gets will be BIG because my husband works for a sports novelty company and with the Lakers being in the NBA finals, and the Carolina Hurricanes being in the Stanley Cup finals, they're doing a LOT of business right now) and those will go towards paying off his car loan. That'll shave off at least a couple years on that loan.

I got my Chevy Cavalier (which I love! poor thing needs to be washed) that way, but we didn't get some outrageous deal on it. I REALLY wanted this car, and REALLY wanted to get rid of my husband's old ass beat up hunk of junk truck. It was sucking up our money and would have needed MAJOR repairs to be reliable. I also need to check into if we can refinance the loan on this car. Our credit has improved since we bought it, so I'm gonna see if we can get a couple points knocked off the interest rate. I'm hoping to have my car paid off by the beginning of next year, becuase I have to start paying off my student loans in December. I don't want to have to make 2 loan payments at the same time.
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This has been an *interesting* week to say the least.

Let's start is with Saturday 6/8

Saturday the 8th-Had my Intro Psych final. The first of my last finals. Hoping I did ok on it, wasn't too bad. Husband and I, since we took the class together, stopped at a Dodge dealership near campus to check out Neons. Ended up leaving 3 hours later with one.

Sunday 6/9-Nothing too out of the ordinary. Had my graduation photos taken with my younger sister who is graduating from the 8th grade. Found out that my husband isn't entirely happy I'm graduating. He's jealous of me. He's been in college a bit longer than I have, and I am done before him. He really shouldn't be jealous of me. I was SUPREMELY lucky to have parents that for the vast majority of my time in college paid for my tuition. I didn't have to work and go to school until just a couple years ago. He's had to do it the entire time he's been in school.

Monday 6/10- Nothing too out of the ordinary happened this day. Well, unless you count that I, the person who used to write papers at 4am the morning before they were due, finished my Critical Theory paper this day, 3 whole days before it was due.

Tuesday 6/11-Here's where the week starts to really take off and hasn't slowed since. (Whoa, and I noticed that it was 9 months after 9/11. Crap, its been THAT long already?) Worked in the morning, nothing else new with that. Going up to school, I noticed that one of the streets halfway up the hill to school was closed off with a police car, and there was a fire truck in the street. I could smell the acrid smell of something burning. I thought "Hmm, something's on fire" but didn't see smoke or flames. Most of the area surrounding my campus is residential, and about halfway up the hill is where the fraternity houses on campus are located. Driving to school, and when I got to campus, I noticed that there were 2 news vans from a local station there. I wondered why. I go to school, turn in my Critical Theory paper (2 days early, woohoo!), take my Senior Seminar final, and head home. Not long after getting home, my husband calls a friend (who is also a fraternity brother of his) to talk about something. Turns out, the house that was on fire, was my husband's fraternity's house! Now, my husband has barely spoken to ANYONE in the fraternity in nearly 2 years, since they treated him like crap and my husband didn't want to take it anymore and then moved out of the house. I urged him to go to them, since if there was ANY time they wouldn't care about what happened 2 years ago, it was then. He goes, and its now like he never left. THAT is what made this week *interesting*

Wednesay 6/12-Nothing too bad. Picked up my graduation photos (which I still owe my mom 65 dollars for *mental note, give mom check*)

Thursday 6/13- I am so freaking excited right now. I HAVE MY VERY LAST COLLEGE FINAL TODAY. I can't wait for it to be time for me to leave work, because I cannot wait till this final is done and over with. The end is really here. After I finish with this final, I am no longer a college student. For the past six years, that's part of how I've defined myself. Whenever I'd have to introduce myself to someone, or my parents would introduce me to someone the phrase "I'm/she's a student at CSU Hayward" would always be a part of that introduction. Not anymore it can't. Then after I am done with my final, I have to bolt to get to my sister's 8th grade graduation. (at my old high school. I am so tempted to sneak in a roam around my old stomping grounds, for old time's sake, and feel majorly old becuase I'm 6-7 years older than the oldest students there...) I'm not gonna let some stinking final keep me from getting to her graduation!

I've barely seen my husband all week, except for in the morning before work and in bed before going to sleep. I probably won't see him this evening either. I've been so goddamn busy, I forgot today was my grandmother's birthday!! Hell, I've even forgotten that MY birthday is next week!
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Congrats, Rose! I'm in my fifth year in college, and I'm supposed to graduate next year with my bachelor's in psych... I'm probably going to wait though so I can do what I need to do to make sure I get into grad school... so I have like a good 3-4 years before I will even consider not going back to school... Probably after I get my master's I'll be going to medical school (well, that's the plan now anyway) :) So I'm in school for a long time :p It's good though when you actually enjoy going to learn.

throw that cap high because after 6 years, you deserve it! :)

-angeles
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i guess this is as good a place as any ...

i just wanted to let you guys know that i've lost about 13 pounds since april 29 on the body for life diet.

yay me!

i still have five weeks to go; i'll give my body a rest from exercise for week and then get back on it.

i have to admit that i have been slacking on the exercise a tad. i've joined a summer softball team and that's been putting a damper on my regular routine. (softball is really anaerobic, not aerobic, but it's still exercise, i guess.)

:)
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cooling_grrl-That's great!!! I love hearing about posters success. Even though softball is anaerobic, when I played on a softaball team the summer I was 16, I was in the BEST shape that summer.
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I've been really good lately. Last weekend a lot of my old friends came home to watch the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson fight. It was great. There was about 25 of us at my friends house with two huge TV's hooked up so everyone could watch. Everyone was getting along, talking trash about who they wanted to win the fight. All those different personalities which normally clash, all flowed together like water. I don't think there was any discontent anywhere from anyone. In all honesty, as strange as it sounds, it was a beautiful thing.

It brought back my waning faith in human behavior. I've seen enough back- stabbing, cheating, dissing, arguing, and fighting to last me a lifetime. Just to see all those people come together and all having come away saying it was one of the funnest nights they have had...well I'm glad I was a part of it. It was damn good to see old friends as well...they can never be replaced.

VenusFetish, I'm sorry to hear about the prom situation. You haven't changed one bit in my eyes. He is going to miss out on having the most beautiful date at the prom. His loss.
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Originally posted by Rose Bud
cooling_grrl-That's great!!! I love hearing about posters success. Even though softball is anaerobic, when I played on a softaball team the summer I was 16, I was in the BEST shape that summer.

it is anaerobic, but i do sweat like a fiend! ;)

it makes me feel good anyway. :)

thanks, rose bud.
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Home for the month... this is my leave for the next year and I cannot take my mind off of school. Biggest on my mind is the required swimming class.

I hate swimming.

That's why I'm going almost every day. I want to validate the class so I can get out of swimming for the semester. All I have to do is break 8:30 for 400 meters, and do a 10 meter jump. The jump is no problem. I figure I can just step off the edge and everything else happens automatically- I just don't want to think about it. It's the swimming that is killing me. First issue is that the workouts are getting old- same old pool bottom (the view doesn't change) - same old workout of 50 laps - same old time of about 9:00 for 400 meters. Does anyone else out here swim regularly have any ideas for breaking the monotony and helping me to swim faster that won't involve lyrca?

I hate lycra. I suspect a lot of people here can associate with that... probably quite a few can associate with hitting a plateau in their workouts too.

By the way, VenusFetish, glad to hear you had a good time and turned a few heads at the prom!
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NotFabio-Wear flippers/fins. They'll make you faster. I discovered this in a swimming class I took 5 years ago. Our final in that class was to swim a mile. One thing the instructor said would make it easier was to wear swim fins! You have to cut them for your height, but one day in class, rather than just plain old exercises to practice our stroke, we had a race. What helped my group win--we had the only person with swim fins in our group, and she let us all use them. Believe me, they make a huge difference.
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Hello all :)

Well, hmm, I don't know what to say.. I've been fine. I've actually had a few spiritual revelations recently....

I feel as though as beings who are conscious and philsosophical of their own existence, we have access to many levels of being.... perhaps in life we start of at a basic level and then work our way up (or at least, we have the chance to) until we have reached a state of total bliss and self-acceptance. Perhaps some of us only have a few levels to reach before we achieve this state, and perhaps others have hundreds of miniature levels, lots of little revelations as opposed to huge life-changing events. But that's not to say that a small revelation cannot be life changing. Indeed, it seems each week my existence becomes more profound and acute due to these little sparks of inspiration.

It can be on many different layers, though, not just spiritually.. although, after all, everything is spiritual. You can discover a new mystery to life when you're experiencing the taste of a piece of fruit, or when you're exercising, or when you're having a conversation. Most of my biggest theories on the universe have come from having inspiring conversations (although admittedly most of them have been with myself, but hey). It's important to recognise these events, though, and to appreciate them.. to not just say "aah, it's stupid to think you can reach enlightenment from eating an apple," but to cherish those moments because after all, we're alive and that's enough to smile about.

Jordie
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VenusFetish-I've tried responding to your post in several different ways, but each time it appeared as if I was launching into a diatribe about "kids these days..." and sounding like a grumbling old coot. (hey, nearly 24 isn't old. It officially qualifies me as a "twentysomething" but hardly old ;))

I think the easiest thing to say is that things will turn around for you. It may not seem like you're getting anywhere right now, but things will get better for you. It may not happen overnight, but you *will* get ahead in life. You gotta make it happen for yourself. Some people are spoiled and lucky and get ahead because of what is given to them. But most of us have to work to get ahead in life, little by little.
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Yo,
I'm back at my good ole' apt . . . whew! Been regularlee goin' one of my most favouritest places in da werld agin! DA GYM! :D
Man oh man, I missed dat place bein' back at my parent's home. I hope I'll be missin' dem few pounds I put on while bein' a dormant flea (tsk tsk!).
I've been eatin' onlee raw foods (fruits and veggies) fer da last twee deys and my tummy has nevah been happier. Been meanin' to do dis rasw foodist thang fer awhile, yanno fer schitts and giggles and I alwayz luff challengin' myself. :)
I kinna miss cooked corn . . . . da fresh schtuff is tearin' away at my teef, I swar! Gawd . . . been gittin' da worst cravings fer cooked schtuff. It doezn't help dat my budd-o boy, who lives wit me, iz gobblin' up all da goodies in front of me. Not to mention I've been cookin' fer him a lot. Sigh, but thar is satisfaction and in havin' a comfy tummy!
Otay, bi bis now.
Me, the Flea
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Hey Poopypie :p

Yeah, it's hard dieting when you've got someone to cook for! I've had someone staying with me for two weeks and I've eaten complete crap most days just because I can't be bothered to make different meals for both of us... **tut-tut**

As of tomorrow, though, I will be a new woman... I've invented a new regime for myself (I'm addicted to doing that) and I'm going to eat PERFECTLY...

I am going to Glasgow Uni in September and want to be totally irresistible! I am going to GLOW with health and good vibes in general. My boyf left me for someone else in May and it made me realise how much I'm worth - that I should put all I've got into making the most out of my life, that we can't put our self-esteem in the hands of others. :)

Jordie
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Sorry I haven't been around more. See the thread I made a few days ago to explain why.

I've been staying with my sister a lot lately, since my mom is at the hospital with my grandfather most of the time. My sister is nearly 14 but my parents are super overprotective of her and don't want her left alone all day. I took friday off from work, which also happened to be my birthday. A big thanks to everyone who posted in the thread and a giant ;k to Leina for posting there and to cooling grrl/maureen for starting it. I was lucky anyone remembered it was my birthday, so that thread made me feel better when I saw it. I've also got tuesday off from work (why oh why didn't I take monday too?).

So needless to say with my birthday and things not exactly being normal, I haven't really been able to watch what I eat. Hopefully things will get back to normal tomorrow. I went grocery shopping during this past week, so my fridge and cabinets are stocked with good things to eat. I just need to let things calm down starting tomorrow and get back to normal.

One thing I hope to accomplish for myself is quitting obsessively weighing myself. Its a big problem I had when I crash dieted in high school. I'd weigh myself several times a day. Like if I felt I ate too much I'd run and get on the scale. Lately I've started doing it again and its not doing me any good. My main goals in life right now are to lose some pounds (enough to start trying with the husband to get pregnant in december. I want to lose at least 20 pounds for that to happen) and reduce my stress. I know I can do them both, I just need to stop the self-destructive behaviours that I always do to screw myself up. That won't be easy but I have to do it. And one of those destructive behaviours is being obsessive about the # on the scale.

I got a raise and a promotion at work, that go into effect July 1. So to treat myself today, I signed myself up for guitar lessons! I start this coming saturday. I'm excited about this. Not only will my poor guitar get some use, I know this is what I needed to start learning. The self-teaching thing was too unstructured for my lazy and procrastinating nature. When it comes to stuff like this, I need the structure. (same thing applies with me and losing weight. I need structure to my eating habits, I need to think and plan about these things rather than just "whatever's there!") My guitar lessons are on weekends, and I did that on purpose. I could have chosen weeknights, but that's gym time for me. So this way, saturdays will be my "free" day when it comes to workouts. I'll save practicing my guitar for some quiet me time after the gym during the week.

What a difference properly fitting clothing makes. Before, my pants would never fit. They're always too big, squeezing and pushing my stomach up making it stick out more, or too large, drooping down, which has the same effect as pants that are too small-they make your stomach stick out more. I finally found pants that fit well. Lane Bryant jeans in size 22. I'm not constantly adjusting them or pulling them up. They fit just right. My shirts are suddenly long enough again. I wore them last weekend and my mother in law asked "Have you lost weight? Because it looks like it with your stomach" and honestly the answer is the opposite, I've put on a couple, and it was all because of pants that fit better. I think I'll be buying more of them.
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oh my god I think I just cured myself of not being able to control myself with pizza. all i have to do now is when I think about wanting pizza, think of the NASTY ASS SHIT I just ate from Domino's Pizza. The crust on the pizza was MUSHY for christ's sake. WHY WHY WHY did I eat it? Oh yeah I was hungry and it was free. Why didn't I just eat my lean cuisine? I don't think I'll have an appetite for the rest of today, that's how much this nasty shit is turning my stomach. :m If I wasn't taking tomorrow off already, I'd ask for the rest of the day off, I am seriously not feeling well now.
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hi chris! :O

whenever chris's hubby would ask why i'd watch the food network but not cook anything, i'd just shrug. i was shrugging because my answer was that i'm lazy. now that i think about it, why DON'T i cook?!?!

on sunday, i cooked a stew with leftover chicken breast (which i really don't like but heck the bf loves it), mirepoix (fancy term i learned off of food network), rice, and lots of free-range chicken broth. okay so the rice was a bit undercooked, but damn, it tasted good. so i just added some water and let it simmer some more.

today, i'm plotting to do something with leftover steak. i'll probably buy some potatoes and make a side-dish for the steak. and then saute some mushrooms to garnish.

i'm joining chris on her anti-fastfood journey. homecooked meals just taste better. and i finished off the last of the pepsi twist in my place. starting today, NO MORE SODA! i'm terribly bloated from all the caffeine i've been consuming. i'd reach for a pepsi twist whenever i was thirsty or as a snack. yes, i drink sodas as snacks! no wonder i've been sleeping at five in the morning.

time for me to listen to my delphines mp3s to get inspired by kv's guitar-playing....oh yeah i downloaded a whole bunch of tabs to go-go's songs. chris and i will be guitar goddesses in no time. okay, in a few years. :D
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Leina-Fajitas are a great use for leftover steak, plus they are pretty simple to make. The most work it takes is slicing the leftover meat and adding some seasoning and spices to it. The only other thing you really need is tortillas :)

I'm a guitar goddess in training that needs a kick in the ass. Hopefully them lessons I signed up for will do the trick. We suck in that we didn't pick up guitars till we were 23. I must remember to go pick up my guitar from my parents house. Guess what, the stoopid doofus on ebay was WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! That whammy bar was NOT made to fit a Squier. Thankfully the super nice people at music unlimited swapped it for the right one, even though I didn't buy it there! does that rule or what? But anyhoo I didn't take it back home afterwards and didn't want to leave it sitting in my car while I was out so its sitting safely at the parents house.

Hey he asks me the same thing, that I watch the food network but don't cook. Its fun to watch others cook. Hey I don't mind cooking when I'm well prepared. That's where my whole meal planning idea is gonna help. I'll know what to cook, and not think "Ohh I didn't pull anything out to make, lets just go buy some junk instead!" I have the day off tomorrow (taking my sis to the orthodontist for the first time, since my grandfather comes home from the hospital tomorrow) so I think one thing I'll do is stake out the kitchen, see what we've got in the freezer and cabinets and pre-plan our meals for the next week.

Yay another anti-fast food buddy! Knowing you've got support in your quests really helps.

My stomach is feeling better after the pizza mush. I still get a bit queasy when I think about it, but *shudder* Rose Bud has learned her lesson!! The whole reason we had pizza today-the World Cup. One of our employees promised that if Korea did well, he'd buy everyone lunch, so he did today.
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Aaah, no mention of the World Cup, please! I'm sulking! :s :r

Bloody hell.. the whole country got really worked up about the England-Brazil game and what happened? We messed up. No, forget that. THEY messed up, because they cheated. Bloody Ronaldo or Rivaldo or whoever the hell it was kept on being a total wimp and falling over in agony whenever anyone came near him.. it got to the stage where whenever he got the ball everyone went "BOOOOO!!!" Ugh. Their playing made me sick. And at least we have a good-looking team. :D (that's the deep and meaningful and not at all shallow Jordie coming out here). I mean, we have Beckham and Owen. **faint** And I don't care how England do.. just keep Becks and Owen on and I'll be fine! I was also rather vexed that Argentina were knocked out because those guys were YUMMY!

Anyway, away from such things. I don't really like football anyway.

Rose Bud, I'm pleased about the lessons! I wish I could afford lessons. I've been playing since I was 11 and pretty much taught myself. I would kill for someone to just teach me a few things... I'm a heavy metal freak and I just can't do those solos! :s And watch out for the fingers, LOL, because you will be in PAIN! I totally mangled my fingertips the other day and then went to someone's house to cook for them.. I ended up chopping an onion and all the juice went inside my hurts and made me whinge for the rest of the day. :r

Jordie
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that's why i've still been practicing the only 2 chords I know right now, just to get my fingers used to playing.

i really need to make an appointment for myself to go to the doctor. my health issues have gone on for too long. and when I say health issues, I mean the feminine health issues I've been having. only problem is that i've missed a bit of work lately, and don't want to miss anymore. I don't want to take advantage of how nice my company has been. i just hope that they understand that things have been hectic in my life. and its not really stuff I can help. but they also know that when times like this hit, when it all calms down, I work that much harder to make up for it.

i've been an insomniac lately. i'll be getting tired during the day, but i'm wide awake at night.
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Damn these Vanilla Cokes! They just taste SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! And my dad bought me 2 12packs so I can drink something while I'm at school... They need to hurry up and make the "diet" Vanilla Cokes! I will be happier :) I don't like to limit myself, because, well, they taste like a little slice of heaven :p

-angeles
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once i saw a girl drinking a diet cherry coke, but i have never in my life seen one of these in a store. has anyone?
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Originally posted by getupkid
once i saw a girl drinking a diet cherry coke, but i have never in my life seen one of these in a store. has anyone?

i think i've seen diet cherry coke once.

diet mountain dew is the way to go!!!! :p

(although i haven't had one in almost three months!)
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I cannot drink regular Coke. I've drank diet for so long, that I had to drink a regular coke the other day, and threw it out after 2 sips.

Vanilla Coke however....*slurp*

I've started slowly easing myself back into going to the gym. I hopefully will eventually work my way up to doing cardio 3x a week and weights 3x a week. But for right now, just to get me back into going, I'm just doing cardio 3x a week. I'm feeling a little muscle stiffness right now. Not pain! Just some stiffness. I think its becuase I didn't keep moving after going to the gym and that didn't help matters much. They'll be fine by later today though. Doing ok with the eating too. Not doing the worst but there's room for me to improve.
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Originally posted by cooling_grrl


i think i've seen diet cherry coke once.

diet mountain dew is the way to go!!!! :p

(although i haven't had one in almost three months!)


Ewwww.... Diet Mountain Dew is yucky! It tastes watered down... But, hey, whatever floats your boat :)

-angeles
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i've been having dreams about soda since last monday. mountain dew code red, vanilla coke, and pepsi twist. nooo...well my pants seem to fit a lot better just from one week's worth of no caffeinated soda. i couldn't believe i was that bloated. to keep me busy from even thinking about buying soda, i've been eating fruit. white peaches. white nectarines. white cherries. goodness, i love white cherries---that's one of the reasons why i look forward to the summertime.

and i think i have more energy nowadays from eating fruit and cooking my meals. i cooked this one recipe from america's test kitchen---braised short ribs. it was an all-day and over-night affair. but the end result was soo delicious. definitely something i want to cook once every two weeks. expensive but tasty. and i'm going to buy nigella lawson's books. i'm really not into healthy cooking. but eating good quality food is better than eating crap fast food.
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I had my first guitar lesson this weekend. I'm excited to be actually learning, just that now I have super duper short nails on my left hand and sore fingers from practicing today. It is worth it though! We coverd 8 chords in my lesson, and my teacher told me to just pick a couple to get down, so I picked three to memorize.

I actually went to the gym three times this week, and ate decently. I've lost a few pounds already! I'm back down under 250 again. Not a HUGE accomplishment but its something for me.
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