Monthly Archive for August, 2007

so my week started out normally enough. was wondering if goodwill would call me back at any point, and they didn’t until wednesday after I’d gone to a contract/temp agency to fill out stuff for a job they wanted me to apply for. it’s a contract-to-hire for the city of sunnyvale. the interview was scheduled for friday, but I never went, mostly because the interview on thursday with goodwill looked pretty good. I still haven’t gotten a call from them, so perhaps I’ve just screwed myself for another week or so. Hopefully the money in savings will tide me over until I get another job. Blah. I HATE HATE HATE being job-less. It makes me feel worthless and hollow and useless.
Friday (was it friday? think it was) I got a txt from my guildie’s wife, asking me who the hell my soulmate was. it was an interesting exchange of txts. I’m sure she was fully aware that I knew who she was. I don’t play dumb very often/very well — goes along with the whole it’s-really-hard-for-me-to-lie thing. She finally called me, and we actually had a pretty nice conversation. Timer on the phone said 31 minutes and 50 seconds. She was pretty angry in the beginning, but toward the end she was getting preoccupied with massive numbers of children. It’s interesting talking to Ryan and talking to Brenda, cause they both tell two different sides to a story. Kinda like trying to get the truth out of a couple of children. One’ll tell their side (in their favor), the other’ll tell theirs, and when presented with the other side’s story they’ll add to their own. Eventually you get enough facts that the whole story is out. Since I hate dancing around issues, and probably also cause of my libra-ness, I tend to tell everybody’s side all at once and people stop listening. Hey, it’s one way to evade taking responsibility for something
California Extreme was THIS WEEKEND, and while it was just as fun as the last times I’ve been there, both Jason and I noted that there were a hell of a lot more pinballs than arcades. Course back in 2005, madden arcade was coming out, so there were some of those and some other global vr stuff. This year there was the global vr game with the bee-head helmet, and some other stuff I didn’t notice (was mostly looking at ddr, c’mon!). DDR was 7th mix, so there was no cartoon heroes or captain jack (whaaaaaaaA!!). I grouped up with a guy at one point, really really good at heavy songs up to almost max feet. We were both sweating out our ears by the end of the third round, but we kept going. He got TWO AA or something in a row (which means he didn’t miss any steps, blah!) so we got a bonus round. We didn’t get to pick the song, and it was max feet on heavy mode. 7th mix doesn’t have challenging mode. We couldn’t edit the song (for me, make the steps go backward), which sucked, and in any case it was going WAY TOO FAST for me. I gave up around the time he did, and we sorta wandered away from it to catch our breaths and let the next guys take a turn. Since I was feeling hungry and thirsty, I figured I’d wander over to TJ and see if I could sneak into the hengehold truck for some water and mebbe peanut-butter ritz (which are really good at making my head stop spinning, as it turns out). The guy was sorta following me, which made me feel kinda nervous. He was cute, in the typical geeky way (I have a huge thing for nerds/geeks specially with glasses. add an earring, and I’m a goner), but since I’m so DAMN addicted to my one man, the though of another guy made me insanely nauseous. I smiled at the guy, told him it was nice playing with him, and then took off in the other direction. Why do I pick such WORDS?? People have always misconstrued what I say ;.; Blah. Anyway.
I ran into Debbie (TJ’s girlfriend) once I’d passed the outside door, and TJ was right behind her. They ran off to the bathroom, so I snuck behind the front desk to sit down and catch my breath. The geeky guy came out to drink some mountain-dew, and I’m assuming he was looking for me cause he stood there for a while staring out the doors to the plaza. Eventually TJ came out, so I had him get me a water (by then geeky guy was gone). Debbie TJ and I all went to watch music videos on TJ’s new video-wall (four monitors stacked on top of eachother — it’s AWESOME). eminem, hanson (wtf???), nysnc (I murdered tj. sorry everybody) and two princes (is that right? I can’t remember the band’s name). Couple others, and some odd Coke commercial I didn’t get. It was getting late and I was exhausted from being up early and running around all day. When I work the front desk, I don’t sit stil, or even SIT. Too much to do. Run run run, take money, put those stupid hair-ripping wrist-bands on people, and calculate the children’s discount. It’s probably my favorite thing about the show Lots of people, they’re all usually uber friendly, and non-stop action (hehehe, like it’s a movie or something )
Only worked a few hours today, but I saw that geek-guy again. I dragged Jason and Jaiden with me since I was only going to be there for a few hours, and geek-guy saw me with Jaiden (if he didn’t see me, he was blind) and assumed whatever he assumed. Didn’t look at him or acknowledge that he was there cause I have no idea how to deal with that kinda situation. In any case. Jaiden ran around and stomped on leaves with daddy while I worked the front desk, until he keeled over from exhaustion on daddy’s shoulder. He brought him in, and I snuggled him against daddy’s sweater under a table (one on the side, so he wouldn’t get kicked). Everybody thought he was sooo adorable, and one guy got his picture. At one point he turned onto his tummy, and had his butt in the air, still fast asleep. Didn’t get a picture of that cause it was over too fast, but it was very very cute xD
Eventually we went back to the house, and Jaiden’s standing here trying to not be sleepy (it’s his bed-time, 9′oclock, but he rarely goes to sleep when he’s sposed to. Diego tells him to go to bed at 9:30, but Angie hears it and freaks out, since Diego is in the living room)

Anyway.
hehehe.
those’re the events of the past week, pretty sure they’re in chronological order.
I met a couple new people, one physically, one over the phone. Course there were all the massive amounts of people who went through the show who I met, fleetingly. Many of them I’ve seen at previous shows, so it was sorta re-meeting?
It was awesome that everybody who works at the show remembered me, even though I was out last year since they timed it perfectly with Jaiden’s birth. We took him -after- the show, so TJ and Ken and John could meet Jaiden (who was what, less than a month old? Show was in July, Jaiden was born the end of June). He’s a lot more alert this year

I reallyl miss ryry. It’s hard being away from him. It helps to talk to him every day, but even that’ll go away when I get a job. Maybe that’s why I’m terrified to get a job subliminal screwing-myself-up kinda thing, when I go in for interviews.
I bought some girly shirts! got like 10 of ‘em, and since I only buy sale stuff, it was all less than 100 bucks. Awesome and coolbeans They’re really cute too. Oh, and a bra, a real one instead of these sports-bras (which I got into cause TJ liked ‘em, even though they’re what I fondly call the uni-boob bra They’re really comfy though, and good for playing DDR in, and for sports I suppose xD)

Got one of those metal nail-files today. They seem to work best for nails. Since I usually use a leatherman file (which Jaiden has stolen, and i don’t know wher ehe put it), it was the next-best-thing? hehehe
so now my nails are getting shaped, or whatever. flamingos maybe. more than likely a blob of some sort. leaning tower of pisa?

Trying this stupid dieting thing again, since I hate being overweight. I’ve been -at- my weight, but I still feel overweight. Doctors bicker over whether I’m five foot one or five foot two, so I figure I’ll just do whatever the hell feels good on me, and not care about the stupid BMI, which is based off very shoddy scientific experimentation from the 1800s over in a completely different country (and thus using a completely different system of weights). Some joke or something, among a bunch of drunken buddies, determining which of the fair ladies was most enticing. Who knows And of course, back then, shape and curves was sought-after. Maybe that’s why I feel lumpy, even when at my designated weight Having huge honkers doesn’t help, either. My sister’s skinnier than I am, and still has bigger boobies than I do ;.; Blah! Oh well
I remember when my mom got to 105 friggen pounds. She’s what, an inch shorter’n me? Her doctor said it was menopause or something. I say she was reverting back to her teenage years She’s had two kids, and looks DAMN hot in a pair of short shorts. very very sexy legs, my mother has. me, lucky ‘ol me, got my dad’s legs xD Chunky and Thick Chunky’s the left, Thick’s the right. anyway
think I’m rambling now
and I’m sure I lost all of you back at the second line
have fun ya’ll, and try to stay out of trouble
hugs-n-kisses and stuff