Relaxation

I'm home from work and off from the second job. I work for the the federal gov. At my first job and today was such and eye opening funny day. SOME one at work was dump I mean dumb enough to view porn on a government computer and it put some spyware on our system and messed up the system pretty bad and actually put and icon on one of our PC. hehhe. I thought the entire thing was stupid with a capital S! You all know I'm a perv, but never would watch porn on a gove PC or any PC at that. ehhehe. Love it........ It's the drama of the day. I'm at home now relaxing with my baby girl and watching my sweet 16 on MTV. Lord, I'll have to have a huge party for her 16th Bday.

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Aug.2006

Aug. 2003

Continuation

Continuation................
Sorry, I have been working like a mad woman ever since I got back from LA and today is such a rare moment for me, I only had to work at my regular job and so I'm home uploading my pictures from LA. I didn't take very many, but I'll post a few on flickr. So after we left the airport and headed back to Erins house to pick up her boyfriend Westin and then we went to eat at this cute Mexican returned. We had plans for the evening and headed back to the house to get ready for our night out. I wasn't sure where we were heading but after we got downtown Hollywood I recongnised the club was one that I had been too many years ago with Myke and Mary and now it was a not a rave but just a regular club. As we walked across the street to the club, we were crossing the street with Lloyd from Entourage. If you have no idea that is, it's one of my favorite shoes on HBO and Lloyd plays the secretary to Arie. Erin had recongnised him and asked if we could take a picture and so we stopped at that corner of the street while Westin took a picture of us. Lloyd was heading to the same club. We had so much fun , we watched DJ AM, that's the guy that use to date Nicole Richie off and on and he performed while the Parker dude, with all the tattoos played the drums and Too short rapped. It was such an awesome perforce and we stayed to watch the entire thing. After that we left to another club down the street and danced to 80 and 90's music, also some 60 and 70's. I was surprise I had so much energy since it was late, but really late for me since I was on east coast time and just couldn't believe how long my day was feeling. By the time we got home it was close to 3am and felt more like 6am for me and so I really didn't get to sleep at all. I was so jet lag, that I just lain in bed and stayed awake. The next day we had lots of running around to do and get things ready for the party the next day. We ate at this really good Cuban place and that was my first time to have Cuban sandwich and I really liked it. Later that day we just cleaned up at Erins parents house and got stuff ready or the party. I can't remember what else we did, but I think we ate out at another restaurant for dinner and it this was like an Irish place. After all that we just went home to rest up for the big day. We got up early Sat. Morning and we shopping at this ware house down town LA not far from China town and it was all vintage dresses. While we were shopping Erin pointed out to me that Michelle Williams from Brokeback Mountain was also in there shopping among us. She looks really tiny in person and her face is flawless. I can't believe she had a baby. I was really excited shopping in this huge warehouse with a famous star and everyone was getting undress right in front of one another since they had no dressing rooms. We had blast and Erin found a vintage 50's style bathing suit to wear for her pool party. I found a few dresses that were really brightly colored and cute. After all that the party was a success and I think everyone had a fun time. The taco guy she hired to cater was a THE BEST tacos and almost as good as my tacos ehehhe. I didn't want to get up the next mornig but I did and caught my flight to Arizona and had a 2 hours delay and was able to see Ron and Davina. I was so happy to see then since we haven't see one another in over 2 years. This was a rush story of what I did in LA, but I did mention all the fun parts.

Seeing Stars

I'm back from my short trip to Hollywood, but I've done and seen more than could possibly imagine in such a short time. My birthday was on Wednesday and Rich and Mianna got me new coach bag, that I just love. I know I'm such a coach bag lady. We celebrated my birthday by shopping by day with Mianna at the outlet malls and then we all ate dinner at my favorite stop, Outback Crab Shack. When we had got home from dinner, Erin called to tell me she was going to get my butt butt on plane pronto and fly me out to LA., So she had a private Jet by the name of Southwest. ehhehe. I love you Erin. She is the bessssteesss buddy ever. I flew to LA in a mater of 12 hours of talking to her and was on my way to LAX. From the time I stepped off the plane, I was trying to keep my eyes peeled for stars, but then as I sat on a bench to wait for Erin, guess who walked in front of me and stood for a second. That dark curly haired, dark skinned guy from Lost. It gets Better and I have more stories, but I'm too sleepy to type it all so this will be continued ..................

LA bound

Thanks to my buddy in LA, I'm now at the airport in Nashville and on my way to LA for the weekend. I took 5 days off from work to just relax and have fun. I didn't plan this trip to LA till the very last minute and Erin was a big help in getting me the flight to LA with her flight points she has earned from being a frequent flyer. Thank you Erin! and I love you. I'm in TN for about 50 more minutes and got an itch to get on the net and blogg a little bit. I can now picture all the things that Mianna went through just a few weeks ago, when she was in this same airport. I see a your traveler just like her and she is sitting on the floor by the boarding letter so that she gets a good seat and that is exactly what Mianna told me she did. I'm not sure what Miss Erin had in store for us this weekend,but I do know it will include lot of FUN!!!! I always mange to have too much fun with her and I plan to take plenty of picture to post of Flikr. Well fellow blogger, I'm off to surf the web and get settled in before we boart the flight. Peace! Ill update you all on my Bday in the next blogg. I did have a good day!

Fractured pinky toe

It had been such a long time since my last confession, HAHA, that's how I like to look at my blog, a short confession of my everyday happenings. Sorry to all my dedicated fans that loves to read this crap. ehehhe. I have been so buy out of my mind that it's really hard to keep up with my blogg. I work so hard at 2 jobs and hardly find time to sit at my favorite spot in the house. I'm happy to report that my baby girl is finally home. I picked her up from the airport yesterday and the story is quite funny. I went into work at CRC to do some overtime as if I don't work enough already, and I got off at 1. I knew that her flight would land around 3 and so I figured I'd go hang with Rich at the company picnic, but Mianna called and said, mom I'm here. I was like "what? Your here already" I told her I was on my to the airport. I called Rich to cancel meeting up with him and began my trip to the airport. I was thinking, boy that plane must have caught some major tail wind and hauled ass to jaxs with 2 hours to spare. DAM. As I was driving along the 295 north I got a call from Mianna again, this time sure she was already at the baggage claim, but what happen, was the plane stopped in TN and she got off, O LORD, her flight was scheduled to come straight to Jax and it said 1 stop only and it didn't mention anything about TN. Mianna called to say she was at the wrong airport, but with some help from the flight crew and an old lady that also got off on accident, they ran to get back on the flight. ehhehe. I was 1/2 way to the air by this time and was not going to waist gas and time to drive back down to the picnic so I just hung out at the airport and played bejeweled on my cell phone. So you’re wondering about the title of this blogg????? Well the day before all of this drama, I was on my way to work, wearing my cute open toe, really small, almost non existent heal shoes, that I just bought for 9 bucks at Ross. Well anyways, as I was driving I came to a stop and my left foot was resting on the rubber rest plate at the left side of the car, and my foot slipped off and banged into the rest plate really hard. O my god, the light was green and I could hardly press on the gas pedal to take off because the pain to so great. I did manage to make it to work, but I was in so much pain. I worked for 5 hours with a throbbing toe and then my boss let me go home early. I decided to go to the ER and have it checked out. They were really quick with the x-rays and sure enough my little pinky toe on my left foot is broke. It’s not bad broke, but just fractured. I left the ER with my toe wrapped up since there is nothing they can do about it and went to my second job. I worked at BEBE for about 2 hours with the funny looking toe and then they let me go home.
Mianna is still asleep since she is on west coast time and so I suspect she will be having jet lag for about a week. Just in time to get back on schedule before school starts back. I'm going to clean house a little and then maybe take Mianna to Kohl's to look at some stuff and then go to Dads friends house for this retirement party. It's to nuts with everyone around us retiring and we are almost there with 2 1/2 years left. Man time sure is flying by. We still don't know what we want to do or where we want to settle down. I love FL and do not want to sale my home. But by Sep, we should start looking for orders.

It's Friday!!!

O the joy of being off. I got up early this morning and the first thing on my mind, was to call work and see if they needed my help, but then I came to my senses and said. HELLO take a break. I'm actually off from BOTH jobs today and here I am trying make my self go to work!!!!! Silly girl, so here I am, enjoying the day and being lazy and, also catching up on some house work and getting things in order around here. I cleaned off the nook table because it became and catch all mail pile instead of a table and I shredded old mail. I vacuumed the entire kitchen and living area and now my feet are happy! The birds always have a mess around their cage and table so I cleaned that up and here we are only 4 hours later and its a mess again. They are so playfull today that they are just making feather fly in the air, you would think they had some type of bird nip thats making them act all crazy. I should put on my paint clothes and go to town in the spare bedroom, but I'm just not in a painting mood. I want the house to be spotless for when Richie gets home and that will make him smile. He always cleans up for me so I come home to a nice home, but it's rare for me to do it, since I'm usually working 50 to 60 hours a week with the full and part time job. The money is not even close to what I thought it would be but it helps out with the extras. The discount from shopping at my favorite store is nice as well. I try not to shop as much and so I buys stuff on sale. I only bough a hat this past week and it was like 20 bucks. It's like so Jlo about 4 years ago, but I love it. I have to make sure I keep the sun off my face so I can age with grace. eheheh. I feel Mianna will be dropping some major $$$ for school supplies when she gets back from SD and so I'm saving up for that. I think I might send her to AZ in a few weeks and let her spend some time there. She wants to come home early and spend some time with us, but I have to put in for some days off from the jobs. Duke is the only one that is so alone without her, we miss her so much, but he is really hurting from her being gone. He actually mopes around with sad eyes looking like he wants him mommy. I let him listen to her on the cell phone today and he kept looking around in circles, trying to see her in the phone, it was so funny.

1999 Meridian

The other night ( 6-17-06) Rich opened up a bottle of 1999 Meridian Cab that we had on the wine rack, and O MY GOD it was the BEST I have had, since the 1999 Rutherford we had with Kim back in Lemoore. the wine was what 7 years OLD. o man it was so good. I did a little research and the wine got press in all these papers. 1999 Cabernet Sauvignon, California
Dallas Morning News GOLD
San Francisco Chronicle Silver
New World International Silver
Tasters Guild Silver
West Coast Wine Comp Bronze
Pacific Rim International Bronze
L.A. County Fair Bronze

Nothings

I have spent the past few days, off from the second job and with nothing to do on my day off on Friday and Saturday. Mianna is in SD and it feels like I've lost my purse and this emptiness that is so hard to fill. I was so so board out of my mind and depressed the day she left that all I did was sleep. I couldn't even get happy windows shopping on the Mac .LOL. I still feel the same today and it's Fathers Day. My hubby is out BBQing and then we will be going over to some friends house for a gathering. I've been so depressed the past few days, I thinks it's because Mianna is gone and I'm not finding things to fulfill the void. I have been on-call at BEBE so much more than I actually work and that kind of stinks. I think I'll charge my camera battery and take plenty of pictures today. The weather outside is overcast and gray so that is how I feel today. I think we need to take a vacation and go some place fun.

ER room this morning

I got up this morning and started to get ready for work as usual when I found Rich in pain. He said he came home from work late last night and just started to have chest pains and then they started to get worst. He stayed up all night with the pain and it took me all morning to convince him to go in to the ER. The Dr did and EKG and chest x-rays and blood work twice. They found nothing wrong except one enzyme that was slightly elevated. They gave him some pain killers and told him to follow up with his Dr tomorrow. I called in to both jobs and got off since I had to take him in and just wouldn't feel comfortable leaving him, incase he had the pain again. This is about the 3 or 4th time he has had this similar pain and no one can really tell us what is going on. The Dr said it was some type of fluid in his cavity wall, but not in his lungs and that it just happens. I have no idea what these Dr are talking about, because they don't take the time to explain the situation well, and the nurse was actually more informative and reminded us of the Black Dr on Grays Anatomy, Dr Bailey. Rich is in bed resting since he was up for 24 hours and tomorrow we have to get up and head to the airport by 6am since Mianna leave to SD at 7:15am. My poor Richie boy scares me some times and I just hope he gets better.

2006 names

Alberto (currently a tropical strom) 6/12/06
Beryl
Chris
Debby
Ernesto
Florence
Gordon
Helene
Isaac
Joyce
Kirk
Leslie
Michael
Nadine
Oscar
Patty
Rafael
Sandy
Tony
Valerie
William

Mianna leaves to SD

I just can't believe how long it had been seen my last blogg. I usually have no time to do this, but it looks like I'll have plenty of off time this week and with my new work hours at CRC, I'll be home by 6 every day, But it I have to run to BEBE, then not home till say 10:40 or 11pm. I'm only scheduled to work 7 hours this week, so most of the time I'm off or on call. I was oncall today and they didn't need me. Mianna is leaving for SD this Friday and she will be gone for one month. I'm already starting to get sad, but I know that she will have a fun summer and love spending time with our family in SD. I'm not sure how it's going to work out with not having her here and Duke being all alone again, he is really going to miss her bad. I suppose I should use this time that I'm home to make dinner and clean the house a little and do some laundry. It's like my work is never done, we just work work work. UHHHH. I'm so ready to stop working. Today we are having bad weather and I just heard on the weather channel on my XM radio that there is a tropical storm called Alberto in the gulf and he can develop into a hurricane and this is the first storm of the season. Here is a clip I took from weather.com
Tropical Storm Alberto, which stengthened between Sunday and Monday, is holding shy of hurricane strength. As of 4 p.m. CDT, Alberto's maximum sustained winds remained at 70 mph, 4 mph short of Category 1 hurricane strength.
Hurricane warnings were issued today for a portion of the Florida Gulf Coast. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions may occur in the next 24 hours. The warning area covers the Gulf Coast from Longboat Key to the Ochlockonee River. A tropical storm warning has been extended northward to the Savannah River on the Atlantic Coast.

There is a slight chance that Alberto could reach minimal hurricane strength before making landfall around Taylor County, Florida by early Tuesday, but the storm seemed to weaken a bit on Monday afternoon.

Locally heavy rains may induce some scattered flooding but the general area has been very dry lately. Many locales will pick up 4 to 8 inches of rain with isolated 10-inch amounts possible. A storm surge of 8 to 10 feet above normal tide levels can be expected in the warned area which extends from Longboat Key to the Ochlockonee River. Isolated tornadoes are always possible with landfalling tropical systems.

The Season Ahead

Experts say the 2006 season could be another very active one. The latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls for 13-16 total storms, 8-10 hurricanes, and 4-6 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher).

Leen

my cousins hair is so long

Rainbow

G.Ma, Davina & Max

I miss my family so much. Here is a nice picture of my grandma, Davina and her mom my Aunty Max. I need to to go!

Seeing more clearly now

I got my eyes checked a few weeks ago and it just so happened it was on the day I had my pampered chef party and Lugo's going away party. I remember I as blind for about 4 hours after I had my pupils dilated. YUCK that really sucked! Today I picked up my new eye glasses and everyone at work likes the way they look on me. Mianna said I look younger and look like a college student. Now all I need is my braces and I'll really look 20 some thing. ehehhe. I love my new BCBG Maxazria glasses. ehehhe, I had to go designer... I'm such a nut. I have contacts ass well, but only need correction in one eye with the contact. I had Mianna snap this shot of me in my new look.

XMAN

We went to see it today and I loved it! We all loved it. way to go the movie is making big bucks!!!! Holly looked so hot with her new slender looking bod and salt and pepper looking hair.

Crazy Busy

I have been so busy I haven't had time to sit at the computer to update my blogg. I worked at my full time job today but I'm off from BeBe for today and tomorrow. Then on Wednesday and Thursday I'll be working both jobs. I'm off from CRC on Friday and Sat, but work at BEBE both days and that makes a total of 57 hours this week. I'm finally getting the hang of the register at work and started helping clients with purchases and fashion decisions. So far I really like working at Bebe and the girls I work with are the coolest. Friday I had my pampered Chef party and for anyone that wants to order let me know by Wed, since I'll be closing the party then. We also had a farewell party for Lugo since he will be leaving this week to Puerto Rico for good. Rich finally painted the remainder of the living room and made me sad by painting over the kitchen. I was so sad I cried. He painted it without even asking me first. I was so hurt and now I have to paint it back, it's so ugly and blah! I have to get off this thing and take Mianna to the store to get a Bday gift for her best friend. I'm out!

Avenn's Busted Lip!

Hippo poop

While we watched the Hippo's play it was so funny when one of them started pooping while wagging it's tail and the other one was drinking from the water. The entire crowd broke out in a loud EWWWWWW!!!!! it was the funniest thing ever!