My Life is Complete

I've hit the pleasure trifecta!

One corner has everything I need to make me happy. Just a couple of miles down the street, in the next city, there's a Fresh & Easy, the brand-spankin' new Porto's kitty corner from the Fresh & Easy, and just behind the Porto's, the movie theatre. Everything I need. OK, if they added a bookstore, then it would have everything I needed, but I'll take what they have.

The line to Porto's is crazy long. Depending on what time you go, you first have to wait in the line that starts at the door and wraps around. Once inside, you go to either the bakery line or the cafe line. The cafe line is supposed to be the express line and the Porto's worker at the door will come out and ask if anyone is getting just drinks and sandwiches and/or under 6 bakery items and they'll let you ahead of the people in the outside line.

I went to Porto's twice today. I met Tiny at there at 11am for lunch and there was no outside line. After lunch, we went to the movies and saw "For Colored Girls." I will never see Michael Ealy in the same way again. :(  Yes, I cried. I cried a lot.

After the movie, Tiny caught the bus back home because she had to go babysit, and I went back to Porto's and this time, there was an outside line. It was so funny, though, because a couple in front of me tried to sneak into the bakery line inside and they got caught. The husband tried to argue, but you could tell the wife got embarrassed and walked back out to the outside line. We were standing outside laughing.

All in all, the second time I went today, it took about 50 minutes to wait in line and get all the goodies I got. I bought enough for my sister and mom to try their popular dishes. Except my mom can't have the cheese rolls because she's lactose intolerant.

Man, Porto's is yummy in my tummy. My mom enjoyed it too. My sister hasn't said anything, but I'm sure she enjoyed them too. She's been giving me crap all week about Porto's and the long-ass line.

And now that they've extended their hours, I can actually make it during the week and not wait until the weekend.

So, for now, my life is complete. :-D

Juggling a lot right now; laziness and procrastination are huge chunks of it.

It doesn't mean a thing if you don't do it

I'm not crazy. I wasn't the only one dishing it out. He was dishing it right back.

So why can't he just say it now? Why does he have to hide it?

He's clearly seeing someone and has clearly been seeing this someone for quite a few months.

He's not a part of my life, so it's not like I care, but it bothers me because he keeps saying he misses us hanging out and wants us to get together more often...blah blah blah

Terribly annoying

We have very little in common. We have different outlooks on life. I'm a heck of a lot more generous than she is. Yet, week after week, I go to the movies with her. Yes, she's the one with the car, but I'm the one with the free movie pass. Do you know how much it costs to go to the movies nowadays, especially if it's a 3D movie? A lot!

My cousin, his girlfriend and I went to the movies a few weeks ago. We saw Resident Evil 3D at one of our theatres so I was able to use my free pass, but then they wanted to see Pirahna 3D and we didn't have it anymore so we had to go to the Regal theatre and it was $46 for our tickets. FORTY SIX DOLLARS!! And that didn't include concessions.

So imagine how much she's saved on movies since I've gotten my free pass. On average there's 2 new releases a week, occasionally 3 or more, and she's gotten to see them all for free.

I don't ask for anything in exchange. I'm just happy to go to the movies since I don't like going by myself.

But I'm more than irritated at how demanding she's getting. No concern for my schedule. It's when she wants to go and the order she wants. She complains about everything and is so friggin' cheap. Arg!!

And yet week after week, there I go. Why o why?

Who else am I supposed to go with?

Feel like myself

I'm not 100% yet, but sooooooooooooooooo much better. I have a lingering cough, but wake up better every day. Last week, even on Sunday, I was still feeling crappy, but this week I feel like myself. Better. :-)

I'm writing this blog while my phone is tethered to my laptop. Way cool, huh? I just hope I don't go over on my data usage. I do tend to use a lot of data as it is. And yesterday I downloaded a bunch of songs from iTunes. I had a really long list of songs to download. eek! Now I have to start building my list back up. I'm in desperate need of some new music. There's not much out there that's catching my attention. Even old faves are wearing thin.

Ta-ta for now....

WTF?!?!?

What happens the second I hit publish on the last post and logged out?

I had a really bad coughing fit - the kind where your throat closes up for a second and you feel like you can't breathe.

Of course I would jinx myself with that last post. :(

Sick as a dog

I can't remember the last time I was this sick. I started feeling bad right after my birthday outing in Pasadena Labor Day weekend and it progressively got worse with the height of it last week.

It was mostly just a cough. No fever, even though I was sweating more than usual. My skin would be cold, but I'd be sweating like it was 115 degrees out. It was gross man. Aside from the cough (and incessant sweating), I was mostly sluggish. Walking the 2 blocks to the bus wore me out. And the stairs here in the office, oh man....not only did it take everything out of me, I'd go into a coughing fit for like 20 minutes.

I was taking everything you could imagine and that's saying a lot considering I'm a "let it run its course and suffer through it" kind of girl. Between Walgreens and the Albertsons pharmacy, I was buying pharmaceuticals every day. Some things helped, some temporarily, others I was just taking just to take them.

This past weekend, I detox at home; trying to get everything out of my body that I had put in during the past week, hoping that maybe then, some of the medicine would start working again. And I slept and tried to get as much rest as I could.

Unfortunately, it also meant that I missed my niece's baby shower and I didn't see any of the three new releases. :(

I took one extra day at home on Monday. One last day to recover. I even gave my body a little talk. Told it enough was enough. I had too much going on to let it keep me down this long. It didn't really work, but at least I felt much better Tuesday morning than I did Monday morning. And even though I was still grossing out my coworkers with my incessant mucus hacking, at least I didn't let it keep me down.

Nights this past week have been horrible with all the coughing, but each day I've awoken better than the day before. Today, my voice sounds worse than I feel and I'm not sweating as much as I was. Most importantly, I got up the stairs without the coughing fit and I'm not as tired. There is still a lot of crap in my throat, but it's easier to get out now. (eww! GROSS!!!)

I'd say I'm at 85% now. Can't wait til I'm back to 100% - there are lots of things I want to do. Too many movies to see!

8.31.2010

Gift from my sister - Burberry wallet - I LOVE IT!!!YUM! Chocolate cake!! :)
My mom (forgive her, she had 2 glasses of wine), me, my sister

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

(2006 - 28th Birthday)

Weird weather

Yesterday I came off the plane in Hailey and it was hot, 95 degrees. We drove over an hour to the lake where it was nice and warm. Driving back from the lake, though, we hit a big rainstorm with thunder going through the forest. Back at the house, no rain. The night was a bit chilly and this morning I awoke to rain. Now the sun is starting to peak out.