38 posts tagged “life”

Show us something good about Mondays.

I shudder at Mondays, its the start of a new week, Aka = work/start of more work.

End of the weekend. So I guess the only thing I really have to look forward to on Mondays is when I come home,

to my favorite reality show ever. She is so crazy/dumb, I can't help but watch.

Show us how you blow off steam.

Show us your idea of the perfect Sunday.

 

 

 I guess my idea of a perfect Sunday would be a Sunday in which im not obligated to do anything.

Job, School, whatever. I just like a Sunday where I can do whatever I want, when I want to.

Its kind of my day to just rest and relax. =)

 

What are some things that are worth (and not worth) spending money on? 
Submitted by pinejar.

Things Worth Money

I guess what I think is worth money is what you use all the time,

everyday.

 

A decent digital camera is worth any amount you may pay for it.

A new decent camera I should say, because used or refurbished ones

tend to be that way for a reason.

I got mine for $300 with my tax money and I don't regret a cent I spent on it.

I've had it for almost 2 years now and its still working just as good.

 

Ok I just realized how stupid I was for making that used comment.

There are some good things that still work good used.

Like DS's. I bought my DS Original used for $115 at Eb Games

and it still works like a charm, I've had it for 1 year too.

I love it, I use it everyday.  

So I'll just shut my mouth now.

 

If you are deciding on any mp3 player, I suggest the Ipod, HIGHLY.

I use it where ever I go, Im up to 545 songs.

I bring it with me wherever I go,

Mostly in my car I had a cassette adaptor that I plug my Ipod into,

So its almost like a built in CD player, without all the cds.

I also have a car battery charger so I can charge the battery while im driving.  

I got it for christmas from my parents, the only down side is

the video part really drains the life of your battery.

But I use it mostly for music anyway.

 

 These arn't my fish, but I think they are worth the money

you may pay for in pet stores.

It's been said that these two fish arnt suppose to get along, but mine are fine together.

I've had my koi's since June and they havn't gotten sick once.

The Gourami I got from a friend of mine which she said has been alive for 3 or so years 

If you want a fish thats going to last awhile and you don't have to worry about waking up the next morning

to death, then these two are the best.

Just keep in mind they both get really big.

 

 I love using this kiosk, I take my SD card to CVS and get my pictures done,

 and I hang them in my room. I love photography if you didn't notice lol. 

But usually I get 17-30 pictures done, which is about 33 cents a picture. 

30 pictures costs to about $6.75. 

But it lets you pick how many copys of each you want, the style you want it in

glossy or matte, whether you want a white border or not and what size you want it. 

Not a bad deal I think. =)

 

This movie finally came to my city,

I went to see it last night, it didn't exactly.. exceed my expectations,

it was.. alright to say the least.
It just made me like the music more.

I love the soundtrack, and I think its worth the money in buying it.

All the songs in the movie are the beatles songs for instance

Revolution, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, All you need is love,

Hey Jude etc.

They did some excellent covers.

 

Things Not worth your Money

 

Ok I had two of these fish, that I bought within weeks of each other,

both died within 3 weeks of me buying them.

Not worth it.

I don't know if it was something I did, or what, but they just arnt worth it,

too tempermental, too much work, to keep them alive.

 I kind of gave up after awhile.

Now I have my Koi's, snails and gourami and im happy,

because they last more than 3 weeks.

 

 I love Mangas as much as the next person,

but I don't think that they are worth the money to buy them,

I can go to Barnes and Noble and finish a manga within a half to one hour.

If im there long enough I can finish the series.

Why would I want to take that home?

 Unless im a hardcore collector or its a series I wouldn't

mind reading again.

 

 This movie is so horrible, its not worth your money or your time,

if someone tries to get you to see it, make any excuse possible not to,

it's the worst movie ever, it makes no sense,

Lindsey Lohan as a stripper,

I was curious ok?  Even that didn't make it worth it. 

Just don't see it, trust me.  

 

 

 

 

Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___." 
Submitted by chl*.

 

 um. wow this is a tough one. There are so many things I've done and yet.. I can't think of any I havn't..

...oh ok I have one.

"I am glad to say that I have never had rabies."

 I want to try everything I guess, except for things that might bring me down, kill me, or get me addicted in a negative way I.E - Drugs.

Im just glad no dogs, racoons, cats have bitten me either.

Back to updating.
I've been on such a lag lately.

I miss my vox friends =).
I need to update more often.

I had this huge fight with my parents

over a dumb shirt that my mom started crying over.

and somehow during this fight I ended up losing everything under the sun.

Including my car, My dad 'supposedly' took the battery out of,

which meant no training, which meant no job.

Only to find out that the two days after I missed training I put my key in the ignition

the car runs fine.

So my parents were basically playing this mind game with me

'Let's see how long it takes her to figure out we did nothing to the car'

So to save my ass (no thanks to my parents)

I had to call up my job and tell them

I had a little car stall and the car would be in the shop till Thursday.

So I have to reschedule my training.

You know I was trying to find a picture, of something to express, what Im writing,

Pictures always seem to make writing more exciting, and I think that picture 

( the one with the red guy)  was the best I could find lol.  

No one can really do a good pissed off face and make it look real.

 

I've been really busy with Dan too, I've been going to his house more often,

he made a vox journal as well. Found here - http://danj.vox.com/

I'm not sure if I wrote this before so sorry if im getting repetitive.

Dan's Grandma is terminally ill. She's under Hospice care right now.  

Which basically means, she's basically going to die. 

You can read more about it in his blog.

But she just seems to be getting worse and worse.

She's been vomiting and going to the bathroom almost every hour at night.

She sleeps all day, and they've resorted to giving her morphine now. 

I just want to be there for him the best that I can be.

Try to be a support system but also someone to cheer him up

making him laugh.

He hasn't gotten that a lot lately. He's to the point of frustration

because she can be very hostile when she is like this as well,

He's frustrated because since December of 06 he has had to stay with

her constantly along with his mom caring for her and she not in her right mind

is hostile towards him.

I can't understand what hes going through, I've never been through it,

I can only imagine how hard it really is for him.

Because I've been there, I've seen what shes like and I've seen

what they have to go through, I can only pray that when I have to do that, 

I'll at least have some help, they are doing it all by themselves. 

With the exception of nurses coming over to teach them how

to use the oxygen or inserting a catheder.

It just shows me how brave they are, especially Dan,

at his age having to do these things, 

it just shows a lot of courage to me. 

But on a more lighter note.

I'm onto my anime phase again.

I get it every so often,

I wonder how long it will last.

I just started a new series called 'DeathNote'

Awesome anime.
It's basically about this guy from the underworld who has this note book

and he drops it in the 'human world' this notebook is special because

whoever's name is written in the notebook, will die. Automatically.

Well a human, guy named Light finds this book, he just thinks at first its some sort of gimmick, like chain letters or something, until he actually tries it and finds out, its not all he thought it was.

Really good anime. 

  

Ahh, oh and special thanks to Cory Roberts

for this Vox Promo sketch he did of I'm guessing 

me? lol =)

No one's ever done anything like that for me before!

I will save it on my hard drive always ^_^.

 

 

 

 

 

  

I've been reading a lot of books lately too,

especially ones about Asian culture.

Me being Thai, I havn't really been able to find

personal memoirs of women from Thailand.

It kind of sucks.

So the closest I've been able to find are

memoirs from Japanese women.

I've been reading two books.

 

One is called 'Bento box In The Heartland'

  

I lovve this book I can't put it down!

It's about this girl who comes to America,

at a really young age, and she yearns to fit in

with all the 'All American Girls'.

From what she brings to school for lunch,

to her race and how she was made fun of in school.  

As she grows she starts to begin to appreciate her culture

and where she comes from.

But what I like best about this is the author often associates

her life with food, she talks about it so well its almost as if you can taste it.

 

 

The other book I've been reading is called 

'Stealing Buddha's Dinner'

It's the same premise except she talks more about her life,

then food, she talks more about adjusting to her
American way of life than her own history. 

I havn't gotten far in this book because I've been

stuck reading the other but it's new and

I think its a bestseller right now.  

 

 

It's 11:15 now I'm going to try to get some reading done before I go to bed.

I will try my best to update tomorrow and to keep with the habit =).

 

 

Ok so I went to the interview yesterday.

I think it went well, I said a lot of what I planned to say,

One of her questions completely baffled me,

'Name an example of when a superior said something you were against'

I couldn't remember, but I said I think it was on my application so she referenced it for me,

and I explained what I wrote.

 

Overall I think it went 'ok' not completely great but just fine.

The group home I went to was the group home that I would work at

if Im hired.

There is also on in Cranston too.

 

The house I went to has 6 girls ages ranging from 20- 60.

One of them is blind.

5 of them are mute with the exception of 1.

In Cranston they have 3 boys in the house.

One of them has OCD.

Only 1 of them is mute.

There were a few things I did learn about the job.

Like what im suppose to do.

I guess during the day, the kids have certain things they do,

They go to art classes, go collect recyling, various things,

and im suppose to help them, they have chores,

At night she said I can be more 'creative' as to what I want to do with them.

I get Health and Dental Benefits.

I also get paid $9.70 an hour which she says will go up

the longer im there.

Both of the houses are on diets with the exception of 'cheat night'

where I can take them out to eat. =)

Have you ever heard of a job where you can take people out to eat?

lol I really hope I get this job, it sounds like fun too.

Next week I have to go to training in Bristol,

which is far away not so far I have to sleep there but far enough.

from 9:00 - 2:30.

They are going to train us on CPR,

Abandonment, Neglect, what to do in a certain situation.

You have to pass training in order to be hired as well,

as them wanting to hire you.

My aunt Marie is coming with me Monday,

Dan might come with me Tuesday.

I just never drove that far by myself before,

so its nice to have company.

I have another interview with the other woman I met at 3:30 today.
I feel more confidant now than yesterday because the other interview didn't go as bad as I thought.
=).

Wish me luck!!

I'll post later telling how it goes, and pictures of stuff I got at the flea market, im just too lazy right now.  

I need to burn some of the stuff on my computer to cd im running out of space!

 

One of those lazy days.
Where you just don't have anything to do.

I had such a good sleep last night.
But when I woke up, I felt like I did get a wink of sleep.
I hate that feeling.

I have the therapist at 3:00 today. Woopee.
In other good news though,
I got a call for an interview at a place I really wanted to work at!

 

It's called L.I.F.E Inc. and they are looking for 'Direct Support Staff;

http://www.lifeincri.org/default.htm

basically my job would be to chaperone mentally disabled kids

to their jobs, take care of them at home, cook, clean, play games.

Just be there as a caretaker I guess.

It seems like a tough job, but its something I've always wanted to try.

Not only would the job be free flowing as in I won't have to worry about dress code or what color my hair is, but everyday will be something new.

Unlike my old job, it was just the same shit everyday. 

I know its going to be tough but its something I'm willing to go through just to say I experienced it,

who knows I may end up liking it. Not just that but the pay, is suppose to be pretty decent.

I'm kind of excited about going back to work, I know that might sound a little crazy but,
I miss having money, eating out, going places, buying things.

I can be a 'material girl' at times ;D.

 

This weight loss thing is tough.  

Temptation is pretty much everywhere I turn.

but if I take enough discipline I should get there.
I just have to have enough strength to resist temptation.

 

I'm trying the slim fast diet now. 

I went on the site, its basically this

Morning meal - Shake

Lunch Meal - Shake

Dinner Meal - Something they tell you to make

but don't have the recipe for.

That's really a lot of help -_-.

 

I've been looking at a lot of diets,

this Atkins one confuses me a little.
So.. I guess.. all you eat is meat?

and they crucify you if you eat an apple?

How does that work?

I asked Dan and he basically said that

eating all of that protein, puts your body into

an emergency state, where it will try to lose all the fat,

because your body isn't getting what it needs?

So, your basically playing with fire. 

I'd rather not have a heart attack trying to lose weight, thanks.

 

Then I saw advertisements for the 'Nutrisystem diet'
Which is basically a company that sends you meals,

which your suppose to have breakfast,lunch and dinner, snacks, shakes etc. 

They also contain a certain amount of calories to each thing you eat,

so its controlled.

I thought it was pretty cool till I saw what it looked like..

What you see to the right is suppose to be what looks like,

 

Meatloaf and mash potatoes. Its kind of making my stomach turn.

There is this girl on flickr who is on the diet and she takes pictures

of all the food shes gotten.

Not just that but the price seems a little not worth it.

$10 a day for 3 meals, that are that size.

It just seems a little iffy to me.

 

 

Enough about diets though. 
I decided to get on my creative side and make a little collage

in my room of all the pictures I've taken over the past 2 years. 
I have all these drawings on my walls of pictures people have done

on Elfwood etc. Various art sites, everyone always asks me If I drew them and I say no.
So at least if I put my pictures up and people ask me if I took them I can say yes =).

Not only that but my room needed a little redecorating anyway, I havn't redone it in years.

 

I was looking for a nail in my garage so I could put up this antique mirror I got at the flea market.

I shifted through some boxes too and low and behold I found my old Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles tape.

 That used to be one of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
I've been downloading some old episodes online

NOT the 2003 version, the 1987 version!

So I was happy when I found it, I plan on watching it a.s.a.p.

 

I'm thinking of bleaching the ends of my hair again.
I think it looks cute now cause of the short haircut,

half of my head isn't dyed now lol.

But I think the dye would be brighter if the bleach was brighter.

I just hope it doesn't turn my hair orange or just decide to break off. 

I need to find a better hair dye though, the red fades so easily.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 
 

 

 

 

I suck so bad at dieting.
I suck.
I suck.
I SUCK.

One of the worse things I can do when im dieting is see my b/f.
His house is like heaven for me, they have all the food my mom

refuses to buy/isn't on sale.

I don't even want to write what I ate yesterday im too embarassed.

 

Let's just say it was too much and it wasn't good for a diet.

and leave it at that.

I did some good things yesterday though.

Dan and I went to the flea market and a couple of yard sales.

He ended up buying a $1 DDR pad from a yard sale,

A pokemon Guide book for a quarter. 

Chronicle comic with a penguin on it also $1

and a bunch of food stuffs.

I ended up buying an antique mirror for $1

Some Incense 25 for $1

Also Food stuffs (baddd)

Note to self - Chicken in a biskit

DOES NOT taste like Chicken in a Biscuit.

 

I also almost got ripped off.

Ok I bought a ring off this guy it was really pretty,

shiny yellow semi-precious stone for $5.

I bought it because not only was it pretty but

 

he also said it was Sterling Silver, meaning it was real.

So I walked around for about an hour with my pretty ring, 
admiring it, oh so pretty,

Till I took it off. My finger is green.

Ok its not that I don't like fake rings, 
It just annoys the crap out of me,

when they stain my fingers.

Which is why I havn't worn them in a long time.
They would always turn my fingers green. 

Not just that but I really don't appreciate being lied to.

So I went back to the guy and returned the ring, luckily enough

I got my money back. But I had to laugh when he said,

'It must be something else thats turning your finger green,

because this is real sterling silver'. 

Right, so my finger just turned green because
I'm going through photosynthesis.

The only thing on that finger I wore was his ring!  

-_-.

I think its kind of funny how my fingers are

  

automatic fake detectors.

 

I've been wearing the ring Dan got me

for a couple of weeks now.

It still hasn't turned my finger green =).

I just looked it up online I guess

it has to do with the PH level in my skin

and the cheap metal.

So one solution is to paint clear nail polish

on the ring.

I'll have to remember that for next time.

 

Dan bought me some jewelry at the flea market too.

A $1 a piece but you can get some really nice pieces if you look hard enough.

I got a pair of cheap earrings and a really nice necklace.

I love it =).

I'd been meaning to get a new one because my old ones

keep breaking or just don't go well with what I wear.

 

Then to his grandma's house because shes home now,

and his parents were going out on errands so someone

has to constantly keep an eye on her.

I brought a few of my PS2 games over,

Dan just got a PS2 for $40 at a garage sale.

I tried to get him to play

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Hilarity ensued.

He was so confused by the slang

and I loved how he couldn't drive the car,

he kept bashing into things and getting into trouble.
So he was too afraid to move the car or break any of the rules afterwards lol.

It was fun.

 

 

Then we went for a walk when his parents got back.
At first I thought we were just going on a regular walk,

but he took me to this really old Swedish cemetary.

He had remembered how I wanted to walk through a cemetary,

near my house so he took me to one near his house.

There's something so peaceful about walking through a cemetary,
It's always so quiet and gentle.

When I go to visit the cemetary I go to, usually I like to glance and read

the other stones. 

But I'm usually with my parents so we don't stay long.

So it was good to be with Dan and on our own terms to be able to look

and see what we wanted to.

I also love reading the old ones, to think that people before our time were buried here.

Some of them were from the 1800's. Some of them were babies, 

Some stones were totally destroyed or unreadable.

It's so sad seeing a person who is buried by themself, or

a stone that has no flowers. Like that person was literally forgotten.

Sometimes I just wish I could buy enough flowers to give every grave one.

But that would cost... a crap load of money.

We must have looked at every single stone.

But there was this one stone that had the last name buried

You could just make it out but you couldn't really see it, you could tell it was completely abandoned.

So Dan and I decided to dig up the grave stone so you could at least see the last name fully.

We dug it up and then we washed it so the dirt would wash off and not just pile up again. 

It's the least we could do for Mr. Larson. 

 

 
Some grave stones were completely abandoned.
This one has a whole flower bush growing on it.

 

 This was in the cemetary too.
What a strange yet exact place for a bird to die.

 

That's pretty much it. 
Happy Memorial Day =)  

 

 


  

 

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

Ok yesterday I 100% failed automatically with this whole 'serious' diet business.

 

I went out with Dan and I got a burger king fry and a coke icee

and later that day I got a Java chip Frappachino from Starbucks.

Automatic FAIL.

I guess you can say that was my last day for 'treats'

Today I start again.

Well I can't say yesterday was all that bad,

we were suppose to have Pizza for dinner

but I turned it down because I was too full from the frap

 

and Dan and I wrestled a little yesterday.

...NOT LIKE THAT.

We actually wrestled.
We had just gotten into a fight,

so we were just calming down and I don't know what happened,

I guess I was just trying to wake him up, because this heat wave

we're having, always weakens him a great deal.

So I kept tickling him, the grumpy gus, he was so grouchy yesterday, 

and that ended up with him trying to tickle me back.

So I think I lost a lot of calories doing that.

I was thirsty as hell/sweating bullets afterwards.

 

Earlier I had gone to his grandma's house to see the ramp they were building, she's suppose to be coming home today from the nursing home.

But they're building a ramp for her wheel chair in front of the house.

The workers are really nice, they were talking to me a great deal, they probably think that im spanish.

I felt bad it must have been 100 degrees or so outside and they'd been working since 9AM.

Then we went to the nursing home, which I don't remember much of, because I had taken two allergy pills prior that had the same ingredient as your average sleeping pill so yeah I fell asleep on the couch.

 One of these days when I have time im going to have to write down every song I have on my Ipod,

just incase I ever have to have the battery changed, all the songs are deleted once that happens

and already my battery is starting to die fairly quickly.

Have to go copy some movies for my mom now but I'll write down what I eat later

 

What I ate Today

 

11:29 AM - Nothing yet!.

12:30 PM - Slim Fast Cappachino Shake