Sabrina

Street Fair

2010-09-05T18:57:00.000-07:00

Last night was the first time I've been to the Street Fair in Orange. It was so packed, down one of the streets (Mexico) no one was moving anywhere. It was worse on the Italian street, mostly because a band was playing, but we couldn't get through anyone to get to the bathrooms. We were only there for a few hours then went to downtown Fullerton.

Today is mostly for recovery from the beer last night. :)

Stones & Rhubarb

2010-08-11T11:20:00.000-07:00

So a few weeks ago I woke up one Monday morning at 2am with the unmistakable pain of a kidney stone. It kept me awake for roughly two hours, I took three extra strength Tylenol's and laid on the couch. I fell asleep after a big glass of water around 4:30. Time to get up at 6, went pee, and out comes the kidney stone. This one was a record. Fastest passed from first pain, to passing. But thank god.

This is kinda gross, but I saw the stone in the toilet and so, in order to show the doctor and have them figure out what I'm eating wrong, I had to scoop it out. It was a big mo-fo too. I put it in a baggy and took it to my doctor appointment two days later.

Last week I got the results, I am to stay away from spinach (hmm), rhubarb (never had rhubarb), any leafy vegetables (sorry salads), tomatoes (thank the lord), chocolate (for sure can live without) and coffee (UGH Nooooooooooo!). I do like spinach in stuff, not so much on it's own. Chocolate I've never liked, but coffee, what am I going to do?

Dana

2010-08-10T21:13:00.000-07:00

Today is one of my best friends birthday. She passed away March 4th from a brain aneurysm. She was only in her early 40's. I miss her so much, some days it hits me harder than others. Usually when it hits me hard, is when I'm drifting off to sleep and her face pops into my mind, it jolts me awake and then I realize I will never get to see her again or hear her voice. Ugh, it's not anything I think I'll ever get used to.

Busy, blurry weekend

2010-08-09T11:37:00.001-07:00

Friday night started out at The Block in Orange with my friend for a few drinks, (four actually). Saturday morning was spent shopping for a dress for a friends wedding, (cute dress actually). Saturday afternoon was spent at the wedding in Lake Forest (nice wedding actually). Saturday night is blurry but I think it ended with some splits and leg stretches on the kitchen floor...but I can't be too sure. Sunday morning was spent wondering what happened the night before. Sunday afternoon was spent at a birthday BBQ, two beers was all I could stomach. And here we are at Monday, barf. At least my three day weekend is coming up. I plan to do some work clothes shopping on Friday, company picnic on Saturday, and the Angel game on Sunday. In other words, more drinking.

When am I going to give my liver a rest? By the time I fully wring it out it's the next weekend and it starts all over again. Ugh.

No Go

2010-06-06T21:14:00.001-07:00

My last entry I talked about going up and forcing my parents to see me in Washington. Yea, not so much. My mom called me and we talked for maybe a half hour or so, she pretty much told me they can't allow me to visit. I ended up crying and being really pissed. Whatever at this point. It still really burns me, but I'm trying to forget about it.

Facebook

2009-06-06T22:15:00.000-07:00

And oh yes, I've removed myself from Facebook. I'm over it, I feel like I'm wasting my life away in front of the computer when I have a cute little son to play with. Of course, now I've replaced it with blogger but, this takes less time than sitting here looking at all my friends profiles and whatnot.

Myspace won't delete me, it wont send me the confirmation email to finalize the delete.

Washington and stuff

2009-06-06T21:42:00.000-07:00

So, I decided to fly up to Washington next weekend to stay with my parents. Basically I'm forcing them to spend time with me. I haven't seen my dad since I left home in 1997, 12 years ago. That's a lot of time. I saw my mom at her father's funeral, that was in 99. I drove down from Minnesota with my ex-mother-in-law to North Carolina for that funeral. My mom had flown out from wherever she was living at the time, her first time on a plane.

A lot has happened with my life since then, stuff they have no idea about. And that's ok, but, if I ever want to see my parents again, I'm just going to have to drop in on them and force them to let me sleep on the couch for a weekend. I talked to my mom today on the phone for the first time in a few years. She seemed concerned about why I wanted to come and see them. She asked me what was wrong because the only way they can "associate" with me is if there's some sort of problem or there's a death.
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My oldest brother Steven just went back home to Norco, about 35 minutes from here, he was staying with us for a few days. I liked it. Especially since he's the only family I have. We got to know each other a lot better, with him being the oldest, he was moved out from the house before I was old enough to "hang out" with him. I was sad when he left. But hopefully he'll visit again soon.

Latest and the greatest

2008-11-10T11:42:00.000-08:00

Really there is no latest, so there'd be no greatest to report. I always think of stuff I'm going to write about, but by the time I log on, I forget all of it. I would like to admit to something I really don't want to admit to...I think I'm getting to old to party anymore. There I said it. Ugh.

I went out last minute Saturday night with Rochelle and Sarah and Paul. And I don't know if I just wasn't amped up about going out, but it was a so so night. I had three beers and somehow wound up trashed. Well, pretty buzzed that I don't remember the last part of the night. I'm guessing it's time to bring back my old nickname: Goldie Locks and the three beers. Except not so much gold locks anymore.

The next day I wasn't hung over, just tired, and worried I'd said something the night before to piss anyone off. I get really retarded when I drink. Not in your face retarded, I'm more the quieter tard off to the side usually. But still, I always worry I will say something that is super stupid.

Whatever, I'm over it now. I'm sure I'm not done "partying" just probably not as excited about doing it as I used to be. Ugh, growing older sucks.

Tired! But what else is new?

2008-10-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

I haven't entered any new entries on here in a while. Just have been so busy with everything. We are trying to get everything (house-wise) ready for our Halloween party this Saturday. We've got a DJ (thanks Reg!) and booze of course and the fog machine. Lol, I love my fog machine. So far we have 45 guests confirmed, most will be last minute, but we invited around 70 I believe. Finally we are able to have our halloween party held in our own house!

House is coming along. Slowly but surely. Painting seems never ending. But we are loving having a house and can't imagine ever having to go back to apartment living.

Saturday night I got to go out with some of my friends, to Long Beach. I was out until 4 am, which is crazy considering I usually am in bed around 10 at the latest. Gibson. I blame him for my early bedtime. But it was fun. Crazy crazy night. I woke up with a nasty bruise on my knee, from what, I have no idea. I know I didn't fall. Rochelle and Sarah fell, but somehow I wound up with the bruise. Hmm....

And we just got our raises, which I've very excited about. Yay!

All for now...

Pics of the house

2008-08-28T21:04:00.001-07:00

At the front door, looking at the garage wall.

Living Room bay window

Front screen door

Living room. We HATE the orange wall, we are repainting over it to just match the brown.

Living room

Front door/living room/entry way

Entry

Front of the house

Paint paint paint

2008-08-24T17:23:00.001-07:00

I've just now started taking SOME pics of the house. But on my camera phone and after we started painting. So here are the ones I took today. It's hard to appreciate the color we chose from the pictures, in person it takes a minute to adjust to the bold colors, but it eventually grows on you. Hehe. We still have edging around the ceilings to do and a second coat on a couple of walls.

We won't be back in the house until Wednesday night.

In the living room. This color is like a burnt mustard, to go with our ketchup red couches. Lol.

At the open front door. Door is being replaced. But that's the brown we went with.

yard clean up

2008-08-20T18:51:00.000-07:00

This week while I've been at work, Casey has been over at the house with Dan tearing up the yards. They filled one of those LARGE dumpsters and had to get a second one which is now half full. They brought down a couple fica (sp?) trees.

Inside they tore out baseboards and will replace those tomorrow. We also start painting tomorrow, I hope. The carpet people are coming by to give us an estimate. And after that we have to go to Anaheim to the tile store and pick out the tiles for the main bathroom, which is being gutted.

I hate it because I have to be at work while all this work is going on. I want to help with everything also. It sucks. At least I do have tomorrow off. I'll try and snap a pic of the house to post.

We got it!

2008-08-15T07:32:00.000-07:00

This past Tuesday we signed all the papers for the house, FINALLY!! It's done, but of course not without stress the whole time. So we will be living in the next town over, Fountain Valley. I'll miss saying I live in Huntington Beach, but would trade that for a house any day!

Three bedroom, two bath, big front yard, big back yard. Cannot wait to get in and start doing what we gotta do. I'll start taking pictures and blog our progress. Boring for you maybe, fun for me. First thing is next week Uncle Dan and Casey are going to get a trash bin and start yoinking out all the whatevers that needs to be tossed.

Then, as soon as we can, we are going to get in there and paint the whole inside, then rip out the carpet and replace. Then we will move in. We have until the end of September to vacate our apartment. So there's time.

5.8

2008-07-29T20:07:00.000-07:00

The earthquake was centered in Chino Hills, and I guess was a 5.8 one. It started at 11:45 am.

It was pretty scary at work. I was shaking a bit afterwards for a good 5 minutes. That one actually scared me. One of my coworkers bolted out the front door, I swear he would have run me over if I was standing in the way. I knelt down beside the desk once it hit harder and seemed like it wasn't going to stop. Others around the office also crawled under their desks, which I believe is the WRONG thing to do. I heard it's best if you laid flat on the floor along a desk or table. It would create somewhat of a pocket. Hopefully.

It was the biggest one I believe that I've ever been in, but I don't even think there was very much damage to anything anywhere. It knocked over some awards on the table in the lobby at work. And insulation and whatnot sprinkled out of the ceiling. But other than that, it wasn't that bad. Just woke us all up and gave everyone something to talk about the rest of the day.

Shrek

2008-07-23T20:47:00.000-07:00

Oh man, I think I have watched Shrek 1, 2 and now 3 seventeen times. Gibson is SO into it. It's all he wants to watch. He can even quote lines. HE'S NOT EVEN TWO!

So I'm beginning to think about our first Halloween party in our new house. I am so excited to finally have a place where we can have a TON of people over. It's going to be so fun fixing it up and making it our own.

Hard part is picking out the costume. Halloween is my favorite holiday ever, if I haven't already said. This will only be the fourth "big" party we've had for Halloween. All the others we had to host in someone else's home. So I'm pretty excited.

Jury Duty

2008-07-22T18:55:00.001-07:00

I know that it's our duty, but man, I really don't love having jury duty. I had it today. At the big courthouse in Santa Ana. Two large groups were called first, the first for a 13 day trial, the second for a 10 day trial. I narrowly escaped going on those because my employer only pays for 40 hours. These required jurors to get paid 10 days from employers. Whew.

Sometime before lunch a group of us (including myself) were called to a courtroom. Maybe 5 minutes of waiting outside the courtroom to enter, the bailiff came out and announced that the case had been resolved and that we could return to the juror room. Whew again!

The rest of the day was just hearing people get their names called and feeling sorry for them, but lucky for me. This courthouse was actually pretty cool, compared to Westminster. They have a cafeteria right outside the juror room. Plus they show a movie during lunch time. Today it was The Invasion with Nicole Kidman. It was pretty good. Anything would have been good though. Anything to get my mind off of my numbing butt.

House

2008-07-12T17:26:00.000-07:00

WE GOT THE HOUSE! I guess we figured that we would, so it wasn't all that much of a surprise. But we are still very excited!!! We have to talk to Jenny to find out all the final stuff that we have to do or whatever. Hopefully on Monday we'll know.

I think tomorrow night we are going to sit down with Dan to pick out tile and all that stuff for the main bathroom. The house is a fixer upper, which I totally don't even care about, because that to me is fun.

I really can't believe we are buying our first house!

Hope is not lost yet

2008-06-25T17:42:00.000-07:00

Don't want to jinx us, but the house thing may work after all.....stay tuned....

Freaking A

2008-06-24T20:05:00.000-07:00

So we got the call from our mortgage chick, we were approved for the loan. BUT they want us to have a cosigner. So pretty much, we are going to forget about it. There's no way in hell I want to ask anyone, not even family, to do something like that. I don't borrow money from people, I sure as hell am not going to ask for a cosigner.

So whatever. I'm pissed, I'm depressed, and disappointed. I'm sick of thinking about it. We spent two months worrying if we'd get it or not, waiting for someone to call us. And then this is what we hear. What a pain in my ass.

Now I'm having a beer and surfing the freaking internet. Pissed. I hate having my hands tied.

beth and I

2008-06-23T18:29:00.001-07:00

beth and I
Originally uploaded by bree0977

My sister scanned this photo from my moms photo album a while back for me. It was at the River in Coloma in Northern California. Not too sure, but it might be the American River. I'm guessing I might have been 8 or 9.

Fathers Day & a Birthday

2008-06-15T13:37:00.000-07:00

Were going to Sarah's tonight for a bbq. It's for Father's Day and Laurena's birthday. We got her one of those bbq cages for cooking your vegetables or seafood, so they don't fall through the grate. (She asked for it) I also got her her favorite cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory.

I'm not complaining one bit, but did you know that a 7" cake from there costs $23?! So I only got one, then went to Marie Callender's for the second banana cream pie. I also got Casey's Father's Day gifts too, two shirts. The print on them are what he's into these days. Hopefully he likes.

It's only like 71 degrees out right now. Kinda chilly. And the kids are all suppose to play in the sprinklers today and the water slide they have. Not sure about that, Gibson already has a cold. So we'll see. I don't see it warming up much more at this point.

And then tomorrow is Monday...ugh.

IMG_2572

2008-06-14T17:50:00.001-07:00

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Originally uploaded by bree0977

I planted Calla Lily bulbs a month or two ago in a pot that I've had empty forever. Well this morning I was in my kitchen, and looked out the window and noticed something yellow. Then it hit me, MY FLOWER!!!

Vegas is coming up!

2008-06-11T21:39:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that Vegas is two weekends from now!! It's coming so fast!! I'm not ready! Plus, without my pocket size camera, it's depressing to think I'll be going without a camera. I'll take my big one for photos taken in the hotel room, but, that's only going to be so many.

I'm going to see if I can borrow Laurena's for the weekend. :O) I'll have to promise I won't leave it somewhere. Hehehehe.

Indiana Jones

2008-06-09T19:14:00.001-07:00

So last night we went to dinner and saw the movie. We ate at Cheesecake Factory, but were too full to order a slice of cheesecake after dinner. That's ok! We don't need it.

The movie was great. Typical Indiana Jones I say. And that's good. I was hoping it was going to be. I worried about him playing the older Indiana and having a son and all, but it turned out really good. There were of course some of the cheesy impossible parts. The most impossible being when his son was swinging through the jungle like Tarzan on the vines and wound up catching up with the caravan then dropped right into the bad guys truck to knock her out. Far fetched, but still great.

I always loved how long the fights lasted and how close to the "edge" they'd always get. Woo hoo, I loved it. Perfect Indiana Jones.

Sunday

2008-06-08T15:48:00.000-07:00

Today is already half over, or more, which means my weekend is just about done. That was fast. Ugh. Friday was somewhat uneventful. Saturday was the company picnic, which was ok, but I got sunburned on my shoulders. After the picnic I got to go out with Rochelle and Guillermo for some drinks. That was....ok. Lol. I was out later than I wanted to be, and spent a little more than I wanted. So that sucks.

Sunday, today, was little Gracie's 4th birthday party. That was pretty fun, watching the kids play and squirt each other with water guns. I posted some pics on flickr. Now I'm just sitting here trying to cool my shoulders. I didn't realize I was getting so much sun.

I reeeeeeally don't want to go to work tomorrow. It's going to suck. I just don't feel like working. Lol. My three day weekends are almost kind of bad. It's like coming back from a mini vacation and kind of hard to get into the groove at work at first.

Energy!

2008-06-06T09:20:00.001-07:00

Seriously, this waiting to hear about our loan is driving me insane!! What the heck man?!?!

I'm on my second cup of coffee this morning. I've become the caffeine drinker I never wanted to be. Everyone, including my mom, has told me, give it time, you'll be just like the rest of us. And here I am. I love coffee, but only if it has about 4 ounces of creamer in it. I don't really love the taste of coffee itself. So I buy flavored coffee and flavored creamer. Lol. I'm also highly addicted to Rockstars or Monsters. (energy drinks)

I've gotten Rochelle addicted to them as well. We both need to lay off of them. They don't even work hardly anymore, we are almost up to drinking two every day, and the label says no more than three a day. Lol. Yikes.

On the way to vegas

2008-06-05T19:43:00.001-07:00

Aahhhh, the weekend

2008-06-05T17:33:00.000-07:00

What I thought was going to be a quiet weekend is turning out to not be so. Tomorrow I'm not doing anything, but going to see Casey on his lunch break. Friday night I plan on staying home and having a few drinks (trying to condition myself for Vegas), Saturday is our company picnic already, and after the picnic I wanted to go to a bar with some of my co-workers for a few drinks (see if that happens), then Sunday, we got a last minute invite to another kids birthday party. Sunday night, if we are able, Casey and I are going to go see Indiana Jones. I have been DYING to see it!! Indiana Jones has always been my favorite.

Not so much a quiet and relaxing weekend as I thought.

WORK SUCKS!

2008-06-03T18:34:00.001-07:00

I got so mad at work today. Most companies don't allow internet surfing for the regular joe blow employee, right? Well sometimes, they will allow it during the common lunch period. Which at my work is 11:30 to 12:30. I wanted to look at stuff, such as my flickr page or even this blog, but couldn't. Why? Because there is so much control going on that the people who DON'T abuse the internet get screwed out of even doing anything at lunch time.

It makes me so mad. I really get pissed about it. I do my job, I don't sit on the internet shopping all day long, and I'm the one who can't even look at anything during the lunch BREAK!!!!

Vegas, Trip #1

2008-05-30T16:50:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow we leave for Vegas, just for one night, with Gibbers. It's Casey's friends vow renewal ceremony. So this trip is just a quick, rather uneventful one, except it will be fun to watch Gibs get excited to see the water show on the strip and possibly the new pirate show at Treasure Island, sorry, TI. Although the last time we saw the pirate show it had a bunch of whores swinging on the ropes, so it's not geared so much for family these days, but he will still love to see it.

And he'll like all the lights at night. It will be fun to go on a trip with him.

Woops

2008-05-29T18:28:00.000-07:00

So I finally did it. I got a tongue piercing injury. I've chipped a couple of teeth, but that's not as bad as what I did the other day. Somehow it punctured the "webbing" sort of area under my tongue. Grossed out? Me too.

My tongue is still swollen but not nearly as bad as the following day that I did it. Talking on the phone at work was difficult. I had to speak slowly so as to not mess up any pronunciation of my words. Lol. Ugh. I tried to take the ring out after I punctured my skin, but it's on there really good.

I still am wearing the original jewelry they pierced my tongue with. I was never able to unscrew the balls to make the ring a shorter one. Which very well could be the reason I messed up my tongue. Yuck.

Vegas!

2008-05-25T19:23:00.003-07:00

Bust

2008-05-25T18:44:00.000-07:00

Well, this weekend is a bust so far. Ugh. We didn't do anything, mostly due to it being so cold and gross outside. I see that Minneapolis is warmer than us! So weird. But tomorrow we are going to Aunt Renee's for a bbq. Carne asada and rice and beans. Should be good, and fun.

We are still waiting to hear something about the house. (I don't think I've mentioned yet that we are trying to buy Uncle Dan's house in Fountain Valley. He has been wanting to get out of California and retire. He wants to buy income property and live off of that.) The neighborhood that his house is in, is where Casey grew up and went to school at. Perfect for Gibson. AND it would take me literally 2 seconds to get to work. Not that 8 minutes is bad either, but can you imagine? That's close. I love it.

It's a bit of a fixer-upper, but I love fixing things and making them my own. So it's perfect. I'm already planning out things I want done. I just don't want to get ahead of myself. I'll be pretty sad if we don't get the loan. It looks pretty good so far, according to our girl, Jenny who is helping us. It's just taking F O R E V E R for them to process it. And it's driving me nuts. I'm very impatient and this is just killing me.

Weenie Roast Chris Payne from Reno!

2008-05-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

Metallica

2008-05-18T19:37:00.000-07:00

Finally, we got to see Metallica in concert!! We got tickets to KROQ Weenie Roast. It was more like a people roast, it was so H O T out in Irvine yesterday. But it was great.

Although, I lost my camera. I'm pretty upset about it. It was a really nice Nikon. Ugh, it depresses me that someone else has it now...

Brothers

2008-05-13T18:05:00.000-07:00

So last Friday I got to see my brothers again! I had a bbq and they happened to be in the area and came over. They stayed the night and we hung out Saturday. I really love seeing them. They might be back tonight or tomorrow night and stay until Saturday while they are finishing up a construction job they have in Lake Arrowhead.

I talked to my brother Richard about my moms letter. While we all had been drinking for a bit. I didn't plan on mentioning it at all. But I did. He said he had gotten one too a couple of months ago but hasn't replied yet. His was just an encouraging letter. As was mine, I suppose. I just hate still that they sent it to Casey and not myself.

Whatever, I'm over it. Richard said not to get upset by it. It's just they way my family is. And I know. Which is why I'm not stressing over it.

I talked to my sister, Beth, today too. She asked me if I got anything in the mail from our mom. I hesitated but told her I did. And told her what I felt about it. I guess my mom asked Beth what she thought I would think about it. Beth figured it would make me mad. She was right.

Totally different subject: I know hardly anyone reads my blog, maybe just Jack. But I'm wondering what might be some thoughts about someone dating their best friend of 11 years or so would be? Best friend meaning, talking to each other every day practically. Going out and partying every weekend. Having kick ass times together. Lots of flirting. Thoughts, Jack? Hehehe......

numb...

2008-05-05T20:27:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it before, but I think whoever reads my blog probably knows that I'm on the outs with most of my family. Especially my parents. (I decided around 19 years old that I didn't want to follow the rules of the religion we all practiced. Therefore I was ousted until I was ready to say I was sorry, then would be welcomed back into the religion and able to speak to my family members who practiced. Well, here I am 30 and am still not ready to apologize.) Against the rules, I decided last year to start sending my mom little gifts here and there once I learned that she loved seeing pictures I sent my sister of my son, Gibson.

I crocheted her some scarves and sent them. Waited some time, never heard anything except from my sister how my mom liked her purple scarf. Ok, that's fine, my mom was still following the rules. I wasn't surprised, but I was a little tiny bit hurt. But not bad.

Next I sent her her OWN envelope of pictures of Gibson so that she wouldn't have to get any from my sister. No note, I just sent pictures. Waited, nothing from my mom. Only my sister telling me that my mom received the pictures. Ok, I still was ok with that I think. At least on the surface.

Last, I was at Disneyland and bought some taffy for her. I know my mom used to LOVE taffy. So I sent her a bag of it. Waited. Nothing. Just mention of it from my sister. But nothing from my mom. She was really sticking to the rule. I couldn't win her over with candy even.

I went through some crap with that, trying to realize that I really wouldn't ever talk to my parents again, unless I saw them at a funeral. And they especially would never get to meet Gibson. I think now, that what hurts the most, is that parents can let something, such as a religion, take them away from their child. Even being brought up to believe that God comes first, I still could never ever see putting that before my Gibson. Gibson is my world. Gibson is the only blood that I basically have, that I know will never set me aside. And that I'll never set him aside. For anything or anyone. No matter what.

I don't know what my family believes love is. How can I spend 19 years of my life in the religion and walk away not understanding why a God would allow this sort of treatment between family members? It's odd, but being away from my family has made me realize how much family means, maybe because it was taken away, and you "never know what you had until it's gone", but now I have a family that is so loving, and shows it everyday to each other, in what they say, how they act, how they help each other out. To me, that's how God wants people to be to each other. Not casting each other out because they've "messed up". Or decided they don't want what was shoved down their throats their entire lives until they were old enough to decide for themselves what they wanted.

So the other day, my husband got a package in the mail. Guess from who? My mom. As soon as he told me, I felt a lump in my throat drop into my stomach giving me a stomach ache. He sat down and opened it and started to read the long letter. I waited for him to finish. While I waited, I felt pissed off. Pissed that my parents have the nerve to write to my husband in the first place. Who do they think they are talking to him. You can't talk to him if you don't talk to me.

I was half afraid to read the letter. But I did. I teared up half way through. Mostly at the parts about how they love me very much no matter what. Or the parts where my mom said that I was a very giving and loving person, so much so that sometimes I didn't know when to say "no". I sort of chuckled at that part because it was so me, and how did my mom know I was that way??

By the end of the letter I was just numb again. I vented a little, and then I just turned it off. It told me to give up. It told me that they really wouldn't ever meet Gibson. It told me that they appreciated the gifts, but I wouldn't be sending anymore. It told me to be numb again. And so I am.

2008-05-03T19:38:00.001-07:00

Stuff

2008-05-03T18:40:00.000-07:00

Well, Temecula was fun, but we didn't get to do the winery tour or the limo ride. There was miscommunication between my brother and his best friends dad. But I still got to hang out with my brothers and nephew. It was really really good.

My nephew may stay with me next week while my two brothers are doing a construction job in Sand Diego. So that will be pretty fun.
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Now, tell me what this is suppose to be...
I took this with my cell phone at work the other day. It's suppose to be a breakfast croissant sandwich from Carl's Jr. Lol, yea. Looks like a mashed together mess. And it tasted like aluminum too. I think I'm done with Carl's breakfast.

Temecula

2008-04-25T16:00:00.000-07:00

Looks like I'm going on a last minute Temecula limo tour. My three brothers are in town, and one of them, Jared, his best friend's dad owns a tour company in Temecula. So tomorrow we are suppose to tour the wineries. Again, for me. It should be pretty cool. I guess just to see my brothers, and all of them in one spot at the same time, should be good.

Tonight we are going to John and Dana's.

Big Bear

2008-04-22T17:31:00.000-07:00

Big Bear was great. I thought it was a great trip. I felt like I got to "bond" with Casey's family (I hate the word bond). I at least just got to spend time with them and got to know them a bit better. I miss hanging out with family. And since I have none really of my own, it was really special to me.

I shouldn't say I don't have any family, I just don't have any that live close and most others don't really want much to do with me. Which, like I've said before, have come to deal with it. I haven't accepted it, but can deal with it. By the way, that reminds me, all three of my older brothers are in town this week, so I will get to see them for a little bit. We are planning on Saturday meeting halfway between my home and my oldest brothers home. He lives in Riverside County. I'm in Orange County.

Anyways, back to Big Bear. I will post photos soon. I'm planning on making a photo book from Shutterfly so that family can order one if they'd like. So I don't really want to spoil the photos until the book is complete. It will take some time to upload the photos and arrange them for the book.

Thursday's fun

2008-04-12T12:44:00.000-07:00

Thursday turned out to be really fun! Tiring but fun. Disneyland we actually only rode three rides, Space Mountain, Matterhorn and Tower of Terror. Let me tell you that Space Mountain had it's moments, but wasn't as scary as I remember. Matterhorn hurt more than I remember. Lots of bouncing on the track and jerking from side to side. Tower of Terror was one we'd never been on.

Tower of Terror is probably THE best ride I've ever been on. I've never been on a ride that scared me so bad I wanted to piss, but at the same time, had me laughing, probably out of fear of dying. Haha. It was SO good. Maybe I loved it so much because I really had no idea what the ride was all about.

Awesome ride.

Matterhorn
Dino at California Adventure (taken for Gibson)

After Disneyland, we got home with Gibson and rested until it was time to go to the concert at the Long Beach Arena. Really, I was ready just to call it a night. But of course we went anyways. The concert really made me remember how much I like that type of music. The tour was called Taste of Chaos, and I think it was sponsored by Rock Star energy drinks (my favorite energy drink, which I am highly addicted to). By the time we got there we only saw four bands perform, I think there were more.

Atreyu was really good, and Avenged Sevenfold was awesome. I hate to admit it, because I always hated it when Casey played the cd in the car. But seeing them live made me change my mind. It usually works that way with me anyways.

And of course, I had to be near the mosh pits (or circle pits as the bands were calling it). Lets see, I got pushed I don't know how many times, feet stepped on I don't know how many times (bruises to prove it), sore arms and shoulders for being pushed and pushing, my ribs are sore on one side for some reason, must have gotten hit there. Ankles are pretty sore. Hehehe, and I loved it.

Keeping someone from falling on the ground, I accidentally nicked the guy on the face with a finger nail. Lol. I saw him go to his friends and ask if he was bleeding. That was funny. He jumped right back into the pit. People lose shoes all over the pit and nice people will pick them up and hold them in the air looking for the owner, two times I got the guys holding the shoes to give them to me, then I just chucked them back into the crowd. Funny for us, probably not so funny for the person getting a shoe to the back of the head.

It was a great day/night.Avenged Sevenfold

End of show

Thursday

2008-04-07T17:50:00.000-07:00

I took this Thursday off (now I'll have a four day weekend!) to spend some time with Casey without Gibson. Not that we don't want to have him around, we just haven't had much time with ourselves. Anyways, we are going to take him to daycare, then it's off to Disneyland! Where we will be able to ride the rides we love, probably without too long of waits.

We will leave Disneyland around the time to get him from daycare, then wait for Grandma to come over to watch him while we go to a concert. (Avenged Sevenfold) I admit, not my favorite band, but Casey loves them. So that's fine. I'm sure it will be fun. As long as I don't get punched in the jaw again from being near the pit. Can Avenged Sevenfold have a pit? I guess they probably will. But, I don't know if the music is pit worthy...

Anyways, that is going to be our Thursday...

Another weekend down...

2008-04-06T15:52:00.000-07:00

Another weekend goes by that I really didn't do anything. I took Gibs to the play yard. Stopped by the pool on the way this morning. It was pretty warm. So we'll have to start going to the pool.

I want to bbq. Oh that reminds me, I think I will at least have a beer right now.

I've been watching my Ghost Hunters show from the DVR. I just watched one on the Willard Library, which was cool because I used to visit the website on the Willard Library. And to see it being investigated by TAPS was pretty cool.

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is on the HDMovie channel. I've never seen that movie...

Lakers game and belly dancing

2008-04-04T18:43:00.000-07:00

We DID go to the Lakers game, it was really really fun. I've never been to a basketball game or the Staples Center. So it was really cool. It was awesome to just hang out with Sarah and Evalyn and Rochelle too.
This was taken in the Staples Center bar.

Rochelle and I FINALLY joined a belly dancing class through the city of HB. I have a lot of different feelings about it. Hehehe. First of all, she and I have been talking about doing it for 3 years now. So finally doing it, feels GREAT. I've wanted to do it my whole life, so that makes it even more awesome that I'm finally doing it. We were pretty nervous when we got there. For one, just didn't know what to expect. Two, I don't dance in front of people (not even alone) unless I'm drunk, and I'm sure it's not as sexy as I feel it is at the time. Third, our teacher is, well, old. We believe she said she was from Brazil or something. Which is fine, but she talks SO LOW and with an accent, we don't know what she's saying! So it's hard to follow her. Plus, she isn't that great of a teacher, meaning, she doesn't really show us the move in slow motion very much before she moves us into doing the move at a fast pace. (If that makes sense)

So we were just ALL over the place. It was pretty messy. But we did get to feel her ass. LOL! At the end of the first class, she went to each student to let them hold her cheeks while she showed us how she clinched them for a certain move. It was so funny.

So we will see how it goes. I'm still going to finish out the class. I know that I could really get into it. Our mission is to find the little waist wrap thing with the coins on it. Most of the students were wearing them so they got more idea of how the moves work. It may help.

Anyways, I'll keep you posted, and unfortunately (or luckily?) I don't have a picture of us in the class to post. Ha!

Boring day and Ned Flanders

2008-03-26T20:36:00.000-07:00

So crazy how one day at work I'm flipping busy and can't catch my breath and the very next I have absolutely nothing to do.

It's not true that I didn't have anything to do. One of my crazy co-workers, we call him Flanders, decided to go around my planning for his meeting, that HE asked me to plan, and book the room himself. And had the balls to tell me that if I wanted to book another meeting with this place that it's best to just go down there rather than try to reach the people on the phone. I planned the last company holiday potluck with this place and had no trouble. He just got impatient.

I just about knocked his block off. I was so pissed off. That's the long story short, there's much more to it that makes me even more pissed. He's a total ass. Like seriously, there isn't many at work that like him.

Busy busy busy

2008-03-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

I was sooooooooo busy today at work. I had 15 binders to make for Bob. Thick binders. Not fun. Back breaking even, especially when the fast copier broke on me! So I had to go across the parking lot to the accounting building to finish the copying. Ugh.

Still nothing from the doctors office. That's a little annoying. Maybe it means good news?

It was hot today too. So I guess our Spring is going to be Summer. That's ok with me.

Still waiting

2008-03-23T21:02:00.001-07:00

Still haven't heard anything from the doctor, of course not on the weekend. But I would have thought I'd have heard something at the end of last week. Probably hear something this week.

Today was H O T. I heard it got to be in the 90's. Nice! Going to be a warm spring?

Easter was good. Lots of food. But I wasn't feeling so great, so I didn't eat much. I was helping peel the eggs from the egg hunt, for deviled eggs, and standing there at the sink with Sarah and Laurena, I started feeling a little nauseous. It got worse and worse, until I started getting real light headed and sweaty. A cold sweat. I made the excuse I had to go pee, left the sink rather abruptly, and went into the restroom and just sat until it went away. Eventually it subsided. Thank god. I hate that feeling.

Earlier that morning I had taken two extra strength Tylenol's for a headache, then hours later, my back was killing me so I took a Vicodin. I'm assuming it could be a combination of that and standing in the sun/heat watching the egg hunt.

Always something...

CT Scan

2008-03-19T18:52:00.000-07:00

I had my CT Scan today at 2. It went fast. Took longer waiting to get in there than the actual scan. They are going to fax the results to my doctor. Now we wait.

I hate waiting....

At home on St. Patty's

2008-03-17T19:07:00.000-07:00

This year is the first year in a long time that I've not gone out to celebrate St. Patty's. It's my second favorite holiday, Halloween being my first. I'm not going out mostly because there wasn't really anyone willing to watch Gibson on a Monday night, since everyone I know has jobs. I wouldn't ask that of anyone anyways.

I guess Casey is going out after his class because the people from his old work asked him to. Don't get me started about that.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to have my CT Scan, but I'm gonna have to reschedule because I have to pick Gibson up from daycare. I don't know what I was thinking when I scheduled it.

So back to bathing Gibson. Him and I will have a quiet Noggin night.

Tattoo

2008-03-16T17:41:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I went to Roy's shop with Rochelle yesterday, so he could figure out what to do with my tattoo. After joking me pretty badly about my tattoo, he asked me what I thought about a koi fish, with maybe some cherry blossoms. He's going to do white and pink flowers and the fish will be orange. I really love the idea and can't wait to see what he comes up with.

I just wonder how painful a cover up is going to be. I thought I heard somewhere that they cover up the old with white ink, so that's almost double the pain, it seems to me. But we'll see.

I'm nervous and excited. We hung out a while after he took pictures of my foot, to watch him do a dragon (a small, but pretty detailed dragon) on a lady's left shoulder. I don't know if it was one he drew or not. But it was pretty cool watching. Makes me want to get my tattoo as soon as possible.

Stones!

2008-03-14T17:31:00.000-07:00

I saw the doctor today. Looks like I'm going to get a CT Scan on Tuesday to make sure there are no kidney stones. She prescribed Vicodin. I'm hoping I don't have to have the same procedure again, where they zap the stones, turning them to dust so the pass.

Gray?? What the hey?!

2008-03-12T17:18:00.001-07:00

So back when I was 25 (1 1/2 years ago ;oP), I noticed my first few lonely gray hairs. Big deal. It was only a couple, that I spotted, but nonetheless, they were there. And it was enough to make me say, what the hey?! I'm only 25. This isn't fair.

Well this past year, especially since I went darker, I've got grays sprouting up all over worse than the weeds growing in the cracks of a sidewalk. So it's making me want to go back to blonde again. Yes, it was a pain keeping up the blonde, BUT, plucking grays is painful! So screw it!! I refuse to look older than I am.

Work sucked today

2008-03-11T21:39:00.000-07:00

Not much to elaborate on, work just sucked. I kept getting irritated by people who think they are funny for one. Normally I just laugh it off, or whatever, but today it was just grating on my brain. But mostly people acting stupid or playing stupid really irritated me the most. UGH.

This weekend I'm going to see my friends friend who is a tattoo artist to check out the tattoo that I don't like anymore. He's going to see what he can do to cover it up. The old tattoo is a lizard, probably will do something along the lines of a Japanese dragon. I don't know. I wish I hadn't gotten anything like an animal at all. But I was stupid. It meant something when I got it, and it still does, but, it just isn't what I like anymore.

My sister and I got the same tattoo in the same spot at the same time. When we were younger, we loved catching lizards. And one time we spotted a baby lizard that ran under a large rock. So we lifted the rock to reveal the lizard and we accidentally squished him. We felt really really bad about it. So later we thought that would be an appropriate tattoo for the both of us. It's on our right foot, sort of wrapped around our ankle.

Problem is, it's a standard lizard we picked out of a book. AND I've seen the same tattoo online. No good. Stupid. It's gotta go.

(I honestly can't remember if this is my foot or my sisters, but this was taken right after we got them done)

Sick

2008-03-06T15:00:00.000-08:00

This season has been the worst as far as sickness goes. Ugh. I've been sick three times in the past few months. My friend probably more than that. Once you start feeling better, you get something a little different. The only thing that I REALLY hate about it is trying to keep Gibson healthy.

I can't believe it's March already either. St. Patty's is coming up, a few birthdays this month. Next month is the Big Bear family trip (that I planned) which I can't wait for. Nothing much in May I don't think, then in June we have our 2nd annual Vegas trip. September or October is camping in San Diego, THAT will be fun. And it's also my anniversary and Gibson's 2nd birthday. OCTOBER, one of my favorite months of the year...I'm not going to say much at this point, but it may be that we will be able to have our Halloween party that's been on hold for the past 2 or 3 years due to not having a place to have it. Crossing my fingers, trying not to jinx it.

Myself and Gibbers

2007-11-29T18:20:00.001-08:00

2007-11-29T18:14:00.001-08:00

Finding a baby sitter isn't the easiest thing, especially in the month of December. Hmmm.

Tomorrow night we finally get to have dinner at Joe's (my brother in law) at his new place in Long Beach. I haven't seen it yet. We're getting Thai foo d. Yum.

Saturday is the childrens Christmas party through my work. They throw one for the company kids and give them gifts. Gibson should have fun with that. Then the adult Christmas party is on the 8th. That one is at a Golf Country Club.

I put up our tree at home, but I need more decorations. I wanted to go with a silver and black look this year since I found a silver and black wreath for the front door. We're having Christmas breakfast at our house this year. It's the first time we've had it, it will only be 5 adults and Gibson. Not too stressful.

Home today

2007-11-16T07:52:00.001-08:00

Gibs caught a bug somewhere. He's running a fever and seems to have an upset tummy. So I stayed home with him. Can he never catch a break? Poor baby is constantly sick.

So I did it. Last night I went dark. No more blonde. I now have dark chocolate hair. It's a really really pretty color. But I'm still trying to get used to it on me. If I love it once I'm used to it, then Ill consider leaving it for a while, but right now I think it's just a winter time thing for me. I just needed a change. I get so bored.

Crazy after all

2007-11-13T17:01:00.000-08:00

Ok, so today WAS crazy after all. I predicted yesterday that Tuesday would probably be boring. But there was SO much to do at work today, and it kept coming until 10 minutes before I left. So that's good. My day went by really fast.

Except, Rochelle had to leave work early because her mom thinks she suffered from a stroke. But her mom wouldn't call 911! She called her doctor and was waiting for a call back! Insane!! So Rochelle left early today.

Last night I started crocheting again. I only make scarves as I only know how to do simple stuff. I don't get fancy either. I know the basic stitch or whatever they are called and that's it. I'm going to make my mom and my sister a couple of scarves. I wanted to do some for my mom, sort of butter her up for when I go up to visit. (Her and my father don't talk to me, but when I go up and want her to meet Gibson. Hopefully she'll agree to meet up. I miss her.) I've had to start the scarf over probably 4 times, I want it to be perfect.

Anyways...

Stuffed

2007-11-12T19:02:00.000-08:00

Rochelle and I have been wanting sushi all day, so we three, went to have it tonight for dinner. And now I'm stuffed. When I say I eat sushi though, it means I have California rolls or crunchy rolls, the weenie stuff. I can't eat that raw fish crap. Sorry, it grosses me out. But I love the rolls I get and am pretty happy with it.

Work was pretty whatever today. Nothing too exciting. It was Monday, Monday's suck. Although they do always go by quick. So that's the best thing about a Monday.

Tomorrow is Tuesday, probably going to be another uneventful day at work. Blah.

One year and two days

2007-11-10T21:54:00.000-08:00

It's been one year and two days since I last posted on here. I've been using Bravenet, but I get bored of one place after a while. There's things there I like, and things here I love. So I don't know.

I just finished watching that movie by Pixar about the rat that loved to cook, (I can't remember how it's spelled) and thought the voice of the kid sounded a bit (not a lot, just a bit) like Ray Romano. Turned out it's Lou Romano, so I was looking him up to see if they were at all related, and I haven't found anything that says they are. But what a coincidence.

Anyways, that's how I happened back upon my old blog, by finding Lou Romano's on Blogger. So there you have it...

I'm back??

2006-11-08T12:11:00.000-08:00

I may return to this blogger! I just found it again and wonder why I ever left???

New Blog

2006-04-07T16:53:00.000-07:00

Ok, I started another blog, somewhere else. I don't know why, I just get bored REAL easy. So here is the address: http://bree092377.bravejournal.com/

In case you are looking for me here. I've had that journal thingy before with these people. So it's familiar. And not all that shitty. :)

drama

2006-03-28T17:09:00.000-08:00

This IT position has created so much drama between the IT manager and my current boss. She's been in a bad mood since Monday, and I don't know if she's mad at me or the IT department. So it makes me feel bad. And uncomfortable. I just want it all to be over with. Move me over to IT or leave me there, I don't care, just get it done with.

I finished writing my job description basically so that the president can review it and decide if I can still be receptionist AND work with IT. Pfft. I will quit if he thinks both can be done by the same person. I hope none of it gets dumped on Rochelle though either. Ugh.

Long story short

2006-03-24T17:19:00.000-08:00

Long story short: There was a position opening in the IT department at work, that I was processing resumes for. It raised a flag, I asked my boss about it, she said, in so many words, she didnt think it was something I'd want to go after. This was last week or so. Today, one of the guys in IT, Paul, was asking me about doing it. Turns out it is something I would want to go for, so the IT manager found out from Paul, that I really WAS interested and so he went and talked to the president, the guy who I don't really like that much, and the president is ALL for me moving over. So now I just have to talk to my boss about it on Monday. Yikes, that's weird, I'll be working in IT. Mostly be doing stuff like document stuff it sounded like, but also I was told that the IT manager wants to show me how to put a computer together. Lol.

It's funny. We will see what happens on Monday.

so warm today

2006-03-23T17:02:00.000-08:00

Oh it was so warm out today! It was close to 80 I think, I did not want to go back in to work after lunch.

Our 9/80 work schedule was approved, so we all get every other Friday's off. First Friday off is on the 31st!!

Last night

2006-03-18T07:48:00.000-08:00

Last night was John's birthday party, yes, he was born on St. Patrick's Day, lucky. And so Dana threw him a birthday party/St. Patty's day party.

Today I have to take my VW in to Midas to get the brakes checked. I keep sliding through intersections and I don't think that's suppose to happen. hehehe.

My brother from NC finally moved out to Muirietta, near Lake Elsinore. He's the oldest of my five brothers who was in my wedding. (The only family member at my wedding) Steven started a new job out here in construction, he's a superintendant. He loves it so far, so that's good. I think he'll stay for a while. I might go out to see him next weekend.

Hope everyone had a really good St. Patricks!

spiders and days off

2006-03-14T22:45:00.000-08:00

I had to kill another spider in the bathroom last night. I sprayed it with Raid for ants. Works good on spiders. But I got sick to my stomach thinking about the spider later. Very weird. I felt like I wanted to throw up when I had the image of the spider walking across the carpet in my head.

Yesterday was a good day off. Oh and my company is about to change the work week. Every two weeks, we will have Fridays off. Longer days through the two weeks, but I think worth it. We'll see. I've never worked anywhere where they did this.

New blog

2006-03-10T17:41:00.000-08:00

So, I've been using Yahoo 360 lately for my blog. Well kinda sorta. It's been more updated than this spot. So if you want to jump over and bookmark that place instead of here, Go Here. For now I'll keep it up. There's no chat box, but you can leave comments on a blog post if you want.

Rain

2006-02-27T20:17:00.000-08:00

It rained today.

Baby news

2006-02-23T21:31:00.000-08:00

Ok, so for those of you still coming around to check out the blog...and actually haven't given up on checking it out...some news here. Which would explain why I haven't been on much. But I'm pregnant. :) It's a good thing. Planned. Hehehe. It's pretty weird right now, today we heard the heart beat for the first time. Very cool. I promise not to turn this blog into a baby site. I know it gets boring reading about how the baby is. So no worries. I also promised myself that I wouldn't be one of those annoying co-workers that does nothing BUT brag about their kids, like they are the only ones to have ever had kids. And I especially, even though these things will mean alot to me, will not hang up every piece of art work my kid ever does in my cubicle. That's just ANNOYING!!!

gone

2006-02-15T13:10:00.000-08:00

Oh it's been forever since I've been on here. I'm thinking of using a different blog area. Not sure yet. I've been kind of out of writing on here. Haven't felt like keeping it updated. Lazy I guess. Lol.

Sylvia Jones

2006-01-21T22:34:00.000-08:00

Sylvia Jones is our best friends mother. She had simple knee surgery on Tuesday. And today, Saturday, she passed away. Thankfully, Dana was already at her mom's home in Michigan when she went into cardiac arrest. Sylvia was an awesome woman. She treated everyone as though they were her own kids. We've only hung out with Sylvia maybe 5 or 6 times when she came to California to visit John and Dana. But we felt we knew her forever. I'll miss getting 20 joke emails from her everyday.

Oh it's gonna rain

2006-01-18T16:34:00.000-08:00

The clouds out are getting darker and darker over here. I hope it rains and rains hard. I need to rinse off my car. I also need to put more brake fluid in it, they are getting squishy again. Uck.

There is a spider hanging out over the kitchen door. He's been there all day. I'll try to get a picture of him for you. Not that I want to get that close to the bastard. But it will be interesting....

Home for lunch

2006-01-16T13:21:00.000-08:00

Can't I just stay home after lunch instead of going back to work? Ughhhhh.

Saw King Kong last night. Long movie. But good. It was fun, had some unreal silly parts but still pretty good.

California weather

2006-01-11T18:17:00.000-08:00

Ok, I'm about to become one of those people I hated and sound really rediculous. I'm going to complain about how cold it is here in Southern California. My feet are freezing, my nose is frozen, my fingers are going to snap off in this 59 degree weather!!!! Hahahaha, I know, I know. Zip it. I'm a tard. Yes, I have been in MUCH colder places than here. Minnesota for example. 30 below out there when I lived there. My car doors were frozen shut. I'd get a cup of hot water to melt the seal, but it would just freeze immediately and make it worse. Stupid idea anyways. I deserved the irritation.

But my blood hasn't thickened because it's been so damn warm here all the time. So the days it is cold, I freeze my arse off.

Goings ons

2006-01-08T19:22:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, while driving back from the store, in the VW with the top down, I got called a bitch. Lol. Two guys in a truck ride up beside me and stay there for like a block and then I hear the driver say, "Fine, don't say hi to me, bitch." I looked over and was like what? Whatever with that.

My brother Jared told me that Friday my mom and my younger brother were driving to pick up a prescription for my dad, and my brother, Michael, (who was driving) ran a red light and got t-boned by a deliver truck. Nice. Michael said that there was a cop directly behind them and was noticing it, and didn't notice that the light was red. My mom and Michael collided noggins. Jared said they had to use the jaws of life to get my mom out of the car. He said that it looked like someone took a baseball bat to her. It was my sisters only car and it got totalled. Michael and my mom are fine, just beat up.

Today we saw the Narnia movie. Better than I thought it'd be. So that was good.

Old Blue

2006-01-01T22:32:00.000-08:00

'Old School' Actor Cranshaw Dies at 86
Saturday December 31 11:04 PM ET

Patrick Cranshaw, who achieved cult-like status as fraternity brother "Blue" in the 2003 comedy "Old School," has died. He was 86.

The veteran character actor died of natural causes Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, his personal manager, Jeff Ross, told the Los Angeles Times.

During a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Cranshaw had dozens of roles, including a bank teller in "Bonnie and Clyde" and a demolition derby owner in "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005). Other credits included "Bandolero" (1968), "Best in Show" (2000) and "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), as well as television series "Mork & Mindy" and "The Dukes of Hazzard."

But he was probably best known for his role as elderly frat boy Joseph "Blue" Palasky in "Old School," starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn.

In the hit comedy, he was about to wrestle two topless girls but dies of an apparent heart attack from overexcitment. After singing "Dust in the Wind" at Blue's funeral, Ferrell's character calls out in agony: "You're my boy, Blue!"

Fans would yell the signature line whenever they saw the actor. He was even invited to meet with the Texas Rangers when they played the Angels in Anaheim.

"It was a great experience and an acknowledgment for him," Ross said. "He loved the recognition and would turn back and say, 'I'm your boy Blue.'"

Cranshaw was born in Bartlesville, Okla., in 1919 and became interested in acting while entertaining American troops before World War II.

He is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold.

This morning

2005-12-29T17:03:00.000-08:00

This morning I'm more tired than any other morning and my stupid alarm goes off. I snooze it twice, as normal, and the third ring I barely drag myself out of bed. I get to work less than 20 minutes later, 7:13 a.m. Unfortunately for me, this is the exact time the president was getting in. Trying to avoid having him say something to me about being late, I called to him, "Good morning!" as he crossed the parking lot. He's got that look on his face - the one he gives when he's "got your number". Half smiling, and looking out the side of his eyeball holes. He replies, "Good afternoon! Well it's close enough to 7 anyways, isn't it."

I chuckled a nervous chuckle and agreed with him. We made it through the lobby doors together and as he passes me he says, "Let's start the new year with coming in on time, at 7. Ok?"

11:30 rolls around. He calls me from a conference room, nice as can be to me. "Yea, Dennis and I are staying in for lunch, can you get a sandwich from Subway for us?" Well, no, I didn't have to go pick it up myself, Guillermo did. But rrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Yes, I shouldn't have been late, but can this guy compliment anything I do? He is constantly picking on my about one thing or another.

Boringest day of my life

2005-12-28T16:40:00.000-08:00

Today was the most boringest day of my life. The hours before lunch time (1pm) felt like 10 hours long. There is no work. Almost everyone is on vacation or out "sick". Boring! Rochelle didn't get into work until around 12:45 so there was no one to really chat with. I hate boring jobs. At least, if they are going to be boring, let me surf the internet, or even read a book. I can't do any of that. Which I understand why a company wouldn't let people do those things, but still. I'm BORED!!!!

Tonight we are going to pick up a real life slot machine for Dana and John. I guess they are going to put in like $500 for the New Year's Eve party we are throwing with them. So that will be a fun party game. I think a card table is going to be set up too, but I'm not sure.

So last friday night, the keg party, I...uh...got really drunk. What do you call it when you drink so much you don't remember any of the night? I didn't pass out. I kept partying so I'm told. But I don't remember one thing about any of it. I guess it all happened after the second shot of everclear/hypnotic I took. Things got somewhat fuzzy after the first one, but by the second one, I may as well have passed out because I don't remember one single thing. Especially not the part where I fell over the back of the couch. Hehehe. And I think I landed on my chin and forehead because both were sore in the morning. LOL!! I'm not even joking with that one folks.

So yea, everclear and hypnotic. Both of which I have never had, and yet I had them together for the first time.

Kegger!

2005-12-21T16:44:00.000-08:00

Friday night we are going to a keg party at Ambers. I'll post plenty of pics of that I'm sure. Unless I party too much and forget I have a camera.

sickness

2005-12-20T17:04:00.000-08:00

Oh I can't get rid of this cough. I feel like my lungs are full of liquid. My breathing sometimes gets raspy. And coughing sometimes clears it. It's weird. Barely any other cold symptoms.

So what is this that my Gwen Stefani is pregnant??! Do you realize how cute this baby is going to be? Do you? Huh?

Ok, that's it for now.

xmas party at SPEC

2005-12-16T16:50:00.000-08:00

So today was our xmas party at work. It was just a potluck at a community center away from the office. So that was nice. I brought rice krispy treats. Less than half of them got ate because there were waaaay too many desserts. But thats ok. Everything was really good. And it was nice to get away from the office for a few hours. We also did white elephant. Gift under $10 only. That was pretty fun too.

Now I'm finally home. Have to drop off our friends at the airport tonight. We're watching their cats for almost two weeks. But that also means we get to use their hot tub and pool. Hehehehe.

HOUSE PARTY!!

Man goes wrong way on highway for 11 miles

2005-12-12T13:34:00.000-08:00

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - A Frenchman drove up a motorway in the wrong direction for 11 miles, crashing into five other vehicles and killing one person and injuring three others including two children, police said.
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The 66-year-old man continued driving after his first two collisions Sunday in the hope of finding an exit off the A35 in eastern France, a police spokesman in the city of Strasbourg said.

No one was injured in the first collision with two vehicles, but one person was seriously hurt in a second accident with two other vehicles.

The retired motorist, driving with his wife, only came to a halt when he collided head-on with another car, killing an adult and seriously injuring two children aboard. Police said the victims were among a family of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Police said alcohol tests on the driver proved negative and he could not explain why he had turned the wrong way onto the motorway. He was in shock but he and his wife were otherwise unhurt.

don't know

2005-12-06T18:41:00.000-08:00

I don't know why I keep this blog going. It's kinda dumb. Who even reads these? I think it just gives me something to do when I'm bored. Sad.

I have to go work out tonight. I really don't want to. I have 4 days to melt off 20 pounds for the Word and Brown Christmas Party. So if I stop eating know, drink lots of draino and excersise for 3 hours every day, maybe I'll get there. Stupid.

I was really bored and tired at work today. No work to do. I think this weather is making me as tired as I am. Not that Southern California has "weather" but it's been somewhat cold. I feel like hibernating. Getting out of bed is the worst. Pain.

Saturday I also have my company christmas party which is at Disneyland. Rochelle put that together. I think it will be fun, but we have to leave the park around 2:30 to get to the hotel and get ready for the next party as previously mentioned. It's gonna be pretty damn fun. I bought a new dress. It's very simple but very classy I guess. No worries, I'll trash it up with my hooker heels. Can't be too sophisticated! Trash.

Anyways, I guess that's all for now. Bored.

New pics

2005-12-04T09:56:00.000-08:00

A few new pics on flickr....

Big Bear

2005-11-25T10:22:00.000-08:00

So today we leave for Big Bear. Not until around 4 I think. Some people had to work today. BUT NOT ME!! Thank god for that! The weather is a little crappy out right now, I hope it gets better because this bites.

I've run out of contacts for my eyes, so I'll be wearing my glasses all weekend up at Big Bear. That makes me unhappy.

What's new, what's new

2005-11-21T17:54:00.000-08:00

What's new, what's new....I just started back up my workout again. I was out for 2 weeks because, 1. my car was broke 2. I got lazy. I plan on going tonight (which I already did), tomorrow night and wednesday night. They are of course closed thursday and friday. I have 20 days to trim up for the christmas party. It's on the 10th, and we are going with John and Dana. It's their company party, but we know a lot of the people they hang out with, (through them of course). So it will be fun. Plus it's open bar. And you can't beat that. It's formal, so we have to do the tux and gown thing. I bought a gown last year, after christmas, for this year's party, but now I don't know if I want to wear it. I'll try it on tonight.

Last week I went to Vegas again. I drove out and back by myself. I went to see my brother and this time my sister who flew down from Washington to drive back up to Washington with my brother. It was a quick trip, but it was really good to see her again. And Jared too. I posted a pic of the three of us on flickr.

This coming friday we are driving up/down to Big Bear for the weekend. We are staying with Amber and Dan in his cabin he has there. I just know that is going to be a freaking party. I can't wait.

Hey what crap

2005-11-17T16:39:00.000-08:00

Hey! I love my crappy job! I just needed to share that. Today I had stupid phone calls, one included someone asking to speak with somebody who was already on their phone. And the classic question I usually get from the caller is, Do you know how long they will be? Here, why don't you think about what you just asked me first you big dumby. LOL.

Then I had to transcribe something for the president, who sounded like he was recording his ideas from the middle of the freeway. So I had sprained my ear trying to figure it out.

And then, people kept talking to me. Ugh.

Bowling is over

2005-11-15T19:06:00.000-08:00

Yay, bowling is over. And I got an award for most improved female player. Ha. Funny. And here is a picture of me and my award. LOL!Here's Rochelle, me and Christine. :O)

nothing to write about

2005-11-08T18:45:00.000-08:00

Well, as you see, I hardly write here anymore. I'm either busy with going out, bowling or working out. Then when I get home, I'm too tired to write. Tonight I flaked on working out. Last night was our last real game for bowling. Thank god. I started to hate it because of my partner. I told him last night that he was being too competative after he just complained that we weren't going to be first place. I was like so what, it's about having fun. But you are too competative to have any fun. He says he is having fun. I don't think so. So he was moaning all night about how after my shitty bowling we would be in 4th place. Whatever whatever. I didn't care. I was glad my shitty bowling was pissing him off.

But it still made me feel bad. So finally around the middle of the last game, I ordered a pitcher of beer. I drank two glasses and amazingly started bowling great. I was improving and Dave was getting worse. It was nice. Today at work, some of the other bowlers told me congrats. I said for what? They said, for coming in 2nd! So there. Next week will be our last bull shit game and they will give us our "prizes" which for myself I ordered bowling shoes. Though I don't know how much use they will get since I'm not going to bowl again, probably. There is no way in hell I'm going to be on Dave's team again. I already told him there wasn't going to be any next time for me.

Oh Halloween is over

2005-11-01T18:25:00.000-08:00

Oh Halloween is over. It was fun, and now it's over. The party we threw was the best one out of the three years we've thrown it. Alot of people showed up. The front lawn and street was packed full of people, so I hear. I don't know how I missed that, I must have been frolicking around chatting it up and didn't notice. And this year (unlike last) I didn't fall because of my costume shoes. So that was good. Everyone who tried them on however either almost fell or actually fell.

Just about everyone was in costume, so that was good. As they should have been! I was a Senorita this year. Casey was Marc Antony. (No not the singer, the roman guy way back when). There were doctors, nurses, devils, angels, strawberry short cakes, sexy cats, pulp fiction people, baseball players, mental institute patients, 80's rockstars, little bo-peep and gypsies. That's what I can remember. Lol.

And now it's over........

Big ol party

2005-10-29T12:06:00.000-07:00

Big Party Tonight!!!!

Gwen Stefani concert

2005-10-22T17:08:00.000-07:00

K, check out my pics from the Gwen concert (last night) on flickr. Some good ones in there, or the best I could get.

First day

2005-10-18T23:05:00.000-07:00

So I joined a fitness club. Just today. And started working out today. I really like it. So finally something I enjoy and something I can stick with.

Work was pretty dull today besides one co-worker telling me what to do. He's not even a co-worker, he's like a temp/contractor. He thinks he can boss everyone around. And when he bosses, he does it with a smile, and that friggin irritates the sheeot out of me.

I did horrible at bowling last night. I think there was too much instruction coming from people. Which I don't mind, but I think it was making me think too much. I do better when I'm just fooling around. So, my crappy playing really pissed off my team mate. Who by the way was being a total asshole. He was treating me like crap and being so dramatic. It's just a game, we are all there to have fun. God.

Thursday we go costume shopping. Cannot wait. Friday is the Gwen concert. Cannot wait. Saturday is Rochelle's birthday at Dave and Busters at the Block. Cannot wait. Sunday is Elizabeth's birthday dinner, forget where. That should be fun too.

Back from Vegas

2005-10-16T21:32:00.000-07:00

Aahh, it's nice to not be on the road anymore. I just got back from Vegas. (Visiting my brother whom I have not seen in about 10 years) It was a really good visit. Seemed like we just picked up where we left off. I'm glad I made the trip out there. It was good for me to spend time with him finally. And I hope the same with him as well. He seemed happy to have me there. We mostly just talked about stuff we remember doing and looked at old pictures. I saw his friend Jason whom I haven't seen in a very long time. He still looks the same.

Anyways, I'm exhausted, off to bed....

Sept. 22, 2003

2005-10-13T22:32:00.000-07:00

Hehehe, I found this in my notes I used to keep on Yahoo....

September 22, 2003 Monday

I cleaned the fish tank yesterday. Made sure the heater was working good, and everything. So I come home today, and hes floating upside down. The two other fish are still alive, but they look barely alive. (they are algae eaters) So after I freaked out, I was like what the hell. Smells like cooked fish over here. I saw the heater was still working, so I decided to feel the side of the tank, and the tank was hooooot. So I turn the heater down, but it doesnt turn off. It broke stuck on. So I had a smelly cooked fish floating in my tank. A smelly cooked fish that was too big and fat to flush. So I got a cooking pan, fished him out, stuck him in a garbage bag with water (because I couldnt strain the water from the fish completely) and I guess he was so hot that he started melting the plastic bag. Hot dead fish water sprayed my legs and my feet and some of my carpet, and sprayed all the way outside to the trash can. Good times.
Lol, so thats my great monday. Yay me. lol.

Day after the procedure

2005-10-12T16:26:00.000-07:00

So this weekend I am going to Vegas. My brother moved out there and I'll be going mainly to visit him. But I'll be staying with a friend who lives out there as well. Don't know what I plan on getting into while I'm out there. Fun things I hope. And once I get back, I really have to sit down and plan out this Halloween party. It will be the third one in a row that we throw. The first year I was a "dark fairy" and last year I was a "beer wench" and this year, me and my friend are actually making my costume. I won't say what it is yet. It's a surprise.

Did you see in the news where some lady in Arkansas just gave birth to her 16th child? Only in Arkansas,......right? And maybe Kentucky.

Tuesday

2005-10-09T11:39:00.000-07:00

Oh my weekend is going by waaay too fast. I guess when you aren't partying much it will do that. Today we are going to go buy a new dining room set. Pub style table and chairs. Figured it would make it more fun to eat at the table if it was like eating in a bar. Hahaha. That sounds awful. Like I'm an alcoholic. Anyways, this is the set we decided on:

It's got a tile top. Pretty cool looking in person.

Tuesday I have to go to get my kidney stones blasted. I have at least 6 stones in EACH kidney. So they decided I needed to get rid of them this way. I've had blood drawn twice and an EKG done. I guess the EKG is done to make sure I can handle being put under?? I don't know. Anyways. Should be a fun time. Ugh.

In case you didn't know, kidney stones are pretty common. A lot of my friends have had them. Three of us in my family have had them, if not more. Before I had gotten them the first time, (about 6 years ago) I had no idea it was so common. This go around, the doctors are going to figure out what they are made of so I can avoid making more. See? You can learn something from my blog, it isn't just all about drinking and partying! Lol.

Sabrina

Street Fair

Stones & Rhubarb

Dana

Busy, blurry weekend

No Go

Facebook

Washington and stuff

Latest and the greatest

Tired! But what else is new?

Pics of the house

Paint paint paint

yard clean up

We got it!

5.8

Shrek

Jury Duty

House

Hope is not lost yet

Freaking A

beth and I

Fathers Day & a Birthday

IMG_2572

Vegas is coming up!

Indiana Jones

Sunday

Energy!

On the way to vegas

Aahhhh, the weekend

WORK SUCKS!

Vegas, Trip #1

Woops

Vegas!

Bust

Weenie Roast Chris Payne from Reno!

Metallica

Brothers

numb...

Stuff

Temecula

Big Bear

Thursday's fun

Thursday

Another weekend down...

Lakers game and belly dancing

More Ned Flanders stories

Boring day and Ned Flanders

Busy busy busy

Still waiting

CT Scan

At home on St. Patty's

Tattoo

Stones!

Gray?? What the hey?!

Work sucked today

Sick

Myself and Gibbers

Home today

Crazy after all

Stuffed

One year and two days

I'm back??

New Blog

drama

Long story short

so warm today

Last night

spiders and days off

New blog

Rain

Baby news

gone

Sylvia Jones

Oh it's gonna rain

Home for lunch

California weather

Goings ons

Old Blue

This morning

Boringest day of my life