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Mechanics & Technology – How Conveniently Inconvenient

I’m back home in SD. The husband was out all day before our drive home with friends at a pub watching the damn World Cup. That’s cool, whatever floats his boat, but I thought we’d be headed back down earlier than 2pm! I mean, having to be at work by 4:30pm is kind of crunch and the later it got, the more likely it was we’d hit some sort of traffic. We hit patches of it and there were idiots in the fast & carpool lanes going slower than 60MPH which was ridiculous. Slow traffic stay RIGHT, assholes! Luckily I got home with enough time to hit the toilet, change quickly and head the 5 minutes down the freeway to work with a few minutes to spare.

We’ll be needing some maintenance to the car SOON. The brakes sound AWFUL and while we haven’t hit the average mileage for the first brake job, we’ve driven this car through a lot of LA traffic, cross-country and through all sorts of up & down terrain coming up & down between LA & SD. Not to mention some of the belts need to be replaced since they’re looking aged and cracked. We definitely don’t want something more expensive to occur because we neglected to change that shit out.

I’ve had my new laptop since, I think, March? Somehow the power adapter cord has melted itself through (or maybe it got under some other hot running electronic) and tonight the laptop wouldn’t acknowledge that fact that it was plugged in. Lo-behold, it’s melted enough through that it’s fricken smoking through the melted rubber/plastic on the cord. *sigh* Looks like I’ll be making a trip to Fry’s tomorrow morning since I’ll be wanting to use my laptop while I’m on vacation (hello movies!). Though it’ll only be half useful without Internet access, having a dead battery with no way to charge it would render it useless. It’d make for a great weight for when it gets windy, though!

So now I’m currently using a little battery power as possible (dim screen, no fancy desktop effects, as few open programs as needed). After I take care of some online business, I’ll be off to take a shower, get some clothes put together for my vacation and head to bed to wake up early for a doctor’s appointment. I have no hope of doing laundry efficiently here since our all-in-one machine takes forever with ONE small load! I’ll have to lug a bunch of dirty (though some clean!) to my parents’ house when my brother comes to pick me up. Thankfully they’ve got the family-sized efficient machines that are only a few years old (at least, the washer’s pretty damn new) ;)

PS: I have a new theme up. I’ve made some personalized adjustments to it but I’m still working on it as a whole! I need to make changes to have it reflect a personal blog and not a “magazine” style website, since that’s what the theme was meant for. I can do this! It’s not like I’m making a theme from scratch and no experience *lol*

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Oh, Fat & Stumpy One

I’ve decreased how much and how often my cat eats and yet, she still manages to be fat. I know she doesn’t get into any other food since the trash can is upright, the cat food is on top of the refrigerator and untouched, and there’s no food in the low cabinets that I know she tries to get into, but she never manages to open the door. I wish I knew what to do to get her more active in our apartment besides getting her a friend. Another cat isn’t an option right now. Any toy we buy her doesn’t hold her attention, however I’ll toss a crumbled up piece of paper and she goes fricken crazy. Unfortunately, it’s not really fun to have what looks like trash all over the floor of the apartment :P

I think I may actually be ready to quit smoking. The past few days I haven’t had a craving to smoke and if this is the case, how awesome! There’s nothing like ending a bad habit and not suffering through forcing yourself to do it. I had to suffer through the stopping of sucking my fingers when I was 10. Yes, I sucked my ring & middle fingers on my right hand until I was about 10 years old. It took an infection near my nail and blistering to make me stop. Even the desire to wear nail polish didn’t get me to stop. I was forced to since I couldn’t well suck an infected finger! I was facing braces if I didn’t stop, too. Thankfully after I stopped, my two top front teeth straightened themselves out.

That didn’t keep dentists from asking me if I wanted braces, though! I have this “snaggle” tooth on the left side of my mouth. There’s a small gap where my canine should be, and the canine itself is actually up a ways on the gum. My brother has the same affliction, but only he has an issue, apparently, with it. You wouldn’t know about the tooth unless I laughed or smiled nice and big. Supposedly it’s inherited from a paternal great-grandmother.

A week from now I’ll be up in the Sierras with my parents, brother, his girlfriend and my grandma & uncle. Unfortunately, the husband didn’t have enough time to take off for the trip so he won’t be joining us – even for his normal days off since two days just isn’t enough for the drive he’d have to make. It’s 5-6 hours (depending on how many & how long the stops) from Los Angeles, so add another 2-3 hours since we now live in San Diego… that’s just too much driving to make, especially alone! Too bad, since he won’t be able to compete in this year’s horseshoe tournament and maintain his winning streak ;) He won 3rd place in the winner’s bracket last year with a random partner, coming in behind my cousin. I played with my dad and we made it to the loser’s bracket but not far enough to rank. Hopefully we’ll do better this year, if I’m his partner, that is!

I’ll need to take books with my that I haven’t manage to finish since I’ve bought them. I have quite a few!

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We Need To Talk…

How do you recover from a bad break-up? The proverbial pint of ice cream? Quality time alone? Going out with friends? What are your personal healing strategies?

It’s been quite a while since I’ve gone through a break-up. The first break-up I remember, in middle school, I thought was amicable (I initiated) until I walked past him telling a few other girls some crap about me. That was bizarre! I just kept walking, completely baffled.

The next break-up was from his end while I took it, I wanted to at least remain friends and he ended up treating me like the plague. I had no idea why he disliked me so much. Apparently, I was found tolerable enough to date for a while and then once we weren’t together, I was the most annoying creature on the planet.

Lastly in middle school was the guy I had my first kiss with and I pretty much fell head-over-heels for him. Unfortunately it was purely a physical relationship with me on his end. He just wouldn’t be my boyfriend, but he’d make out with me behind the buildings after school. This tore me up, especially when he ended up going out with one of my friends. I was always crying and so self-absorbed about it. Needless to say, my first real heartbreak wasn’t dealt with very well. Looking back on it, I feel so embarrassed about it. As far as the stereotypical “female goes chasing the pint of ice cream”, that’s not me. I tend to go the opposite way and don’t feel up to eating at all lol. I just want to be left alone, be all emo with my music and cry it out (or at that time, write it out as well lol).

High school relationships were all over the place – the first I can’t remember who broke up with whom, but we kind of remained friends until his behavior just got more stupid (as stupid as boys who seem to have just found their penis can get *lol* ). The 2nd, I only went out with him for a couple of days and broke it off. If I ever got a preview into what it would’ve been like to be in a relationship with a clinger, it was that one. I was fearful when it came to breaking up with him! He had a reputation that preceded him and I didn’t pay it attention. After I broke up with him, at one point, he threw my backpack up on a school building. I had actually done my homework the night before, and I never do my homework! Lastly was my first high school sweetheart.

That went on & off forever. I broke up with him the first time, then it was mutual the 2nd time. Finally, I wanted back together with him and I did everything I could think of to make him want to be with me again. It finally worked, but after working so hard and being so hung up on him for so long, I’d finally moved on and turned him down. The timing never seemed right :/

Minus a short stint with a guy at my 2nd high school, I met my husband and well, we’ve had our “break-up level” issues, but we’re together and working things out and so far so good.

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How 'Bout Them Dodgers?

The latest I’ve worked is 11pm with my current employer. I’ve never closed and the earliest I’ve worked is 7:30am or so… so technically I guess I’ve helped open, but not nearly as early as others. Sometimes after I’m off work at night, I’ll look at the clock a few hours later and realize we’re still open and my coworkers are still at it! I was actually let off a little under an hour early tonight. Early in the week are generally our least busy days.

You know what’s a very interesting series to watch? The History of Sex on the History channel. They go through the beginning of humanity through current times. There are so many interesting things that occurred sex-wise early on in history. It’s astounding, sometimes! The ignorance and surface prudishness of even early doctors, and the amazing hidden perversity experienced by both sexes is just… awesome to learn about!

The Dodgers are seriously disappointing me now. They’ve fallen into 3rd fricken place, behind the Giants, for our division. It’s causing me to lose any hope that they’ll perform well for us against the Yankees this Sunday! I want to see them kick Yankee butt! Just going to the game will be pretty awesome. It’s the gift my cousin is giving my husband for his birthday and myself plus my dad get to go along for the fun. I’m excited! I wanted to get him an authentic Lasorda jersey but they’re 1) expensive and 2) hard to find! Replicas are much easier to get your hands on, but I wanted the real thing… I eventually want to get myself a Piazza Dodgers jersey :) Those are even harder to find! There are plenty of Mets jerseys for him :P

Gosh, I need money. I need to win the lottery! It would help my chances if I actually played the lottery, huh? *lol*

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