It's amazing what happens when you spend a week without taking your normal vices ( I don't know if a sleeping pill prescription counts as a vice, but if it gives you a kick and you enjoy it, then it's a vice...caffeine, definitely LOL) and then you don't sleep properly. My body was just running on empty all week. It's scary to think about how little sleep I got, and how your body breaks down when you don't get enough, period. As much as I work out and train, that's not a good thing. I felt myself literally coming down with a cold a few days ago and I immediately upped my vitamins ( the best stuff in the world that seems to cure any onset of a cold, for me, anyways, is this fizzy drink called EMERGENCY C...it comes in lots of tasty flavors but I like raspberry). I take a couple packages of that and mix it with water and it seems to do some wonders for me.


So yesterday I came home from the gym ( I had no energy to work at the club and it's been dead from what the other girls have told me) and crashed...I mean I literally just passed out and slept for 13 hours. I heard nothing. The fire alarm could have gone off and I probably would not have awoken. My cats were wondering " Is she dead?? Who's gonna feed us??" I didn't hear the cell phone ringing ( and I have the ringer set on loud). When I woke up, I thought, oh, that clock must be mistaken...it's must be morning...but NO...it was this afternoon and already getting dark.)


Well hell...I needed my sleep. I went through this whole week like a extra-tired zombie who didn't even have the energy to terrorize anyone.

There's so many good albums from the past out there that I could listen to, but I'd have to say that it would be AC/DC's Back in Black. Classic metal right there. That, and a close second would actually be something completely the opposite...a CD of Favorite Opera Love songs. :)

I'd say I definitely am happy at my job at the gym mostly because of the rewarding experience I get from helping people to get fit and get in shape. I like motivating others. By making others feel good about themselves, I get a good feeling from that. I also have the choice of who I want to train as well as a flexible schedule.

My second job...well you know what that entails...I would say that if I'm not jumping for joy about it, I'm happy with the money that it allows me to earn and I wouldn't do it if there wasn't some element of magic still left in it. Again, flexible schedule is the KEY words here....I can go in when I want, any night or day of the week or weekend.

Initially, I'd say though that my ultimate dream job is just to be a freelance writer. It's hard to make a living ( well, maybe it's just that I'm not willing to be on an income that won't allow me to sustain my current lifestyle) doing that...at heart, I definitely think I'm a bohemian...I don't like other people telling me what to do or being my 'boss'...I am and have always wanted to be my own 'boss'. Ideally, I would love to just sit at my computer with a cup of cocoa, my slippers and sweats, and just write.

* stolen from Talonvaki* :))

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your flist guess your favorite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.




Hmm. Well...I either am totally obsessed with something or I'm not...there are very few things where I think they're just 'okay' or whatever. If I get obsessed then I get obsessed in every way and start collecting ( you guys know this LOL) stuff like crazy from the movie, joining fan sites and all that stuff. I have to admit though, out of all the obsessions I've had in terms of movies or books, the Pirates of the Caribbean obsession has lasted the longest...now going on three years. That fandom was actually the reason I had found Live Journal, through Yahoo's POTC fan group/fanfiction.

My list is a mix of movies, bands, and books.

1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Star Wars
4. Watership Down ( movie AND book) * Hey Talonvaki great minds think alike LOL *

5. Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame
6. Berserk ( anime series/comic)
7. Clive Barker's Hellraiser
8. John Carpenter's The Thing
9. Shadowland by Peter Straub
10. Flowers in the Attic ( the older VC Andrews series)
11. AC/DC
12. Ozzy Osbourne
13. Van Halen
14. Erasure
15. Iron Maiden
16. Elizabeth ( with Cate Blanchett)
17. Warner Brothers Cartoons ( the really violent ones)
18. Pac Man
19. Donkey Kong
20. Phantom of the Opera

Well that's a tough question for me, seeing as how I hate reality tv. Did anyone ever stop to think that reality tv IS NOTHING LIKE REALITY?!

That being said, in all honesty, for the amount of money I receive as a personal trainer per hour..( it would be hypocritical to ask for more) .I'd have to say that I would like to be on THE BIGGEST LOSER as a trainer for the people who come on that show to lose weight and get in shape. It takes GUTS and COURAGE to stand there and be weighed in front of an audience, let alone show your body under the glaring studio lights and wearing spandex.

Oh trust me...I'd shout it real loud to let everyone ELSE know too. " HEY____ ya got spinach between your teeth...it looks pretty bad, like algae."

CHILLING AT HOME!!!!!

The rudest thing someone came up to me and said was " Is it true that Oriental people have terrible driving skills because they eyes are slanted amd they can't see to see straight?"


To my response... I asked " Is it true white people can snort up more cocaine than Asians because y'all hill billy noses are so much bigger than my nose? Like, for example, Marry Manilow could be able to snort all of Columbia's cocaine in one swell snort.

Okay...this is enough to make me snap out of my tiredness from lack of sleep. It's my rant for the day. This is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves.


I cannot fucking STAND it when someone says " It's not my job" when it comes to everyday simple things to do that DO NOT HAVE TO BE PART OF YOUR FUCKING JOB TITLE to just be considerate of other people, period. And ESPECIALLY if you're a volunteer, like at a pet clinic where it's ALL of our duties to do ALL the things necessary to help out the pets. As a volunteer, your DUTY is to make things easier for everyone else. Don't give me shit about it's not 'your job' to clean the litter boxes and it's 'not your job' to make sure the bleach bottles are filled with the proper mix of water and bleach.

And to those people who NEVER bother to put fresh toilet paper and leave the fucking roll with no paper on it, or don't bother to make another fresh pot of coffee...or leave your dirty fucking garbage on the table so someone else can 'throw it away' when the garbage can is TWO FEET AWAY from you...here's my saying: the world WOULD BE a lot nicer if people like yourself would stop being so fucking lazy and just do the right thing because you're being a good person and no, not because you're getting 'paid' to do it or expecting tons if thanks. JUST DO IT...to be courteous, to be a nice person, period.


Now, my rant is over.

Okay....if you can believe this, my very first paycheck job was working at a children's shoe store...Stride Rite, at a local mall where I grew up. And that ironically was the place I used to get my shoes as a kid. I remember the minimum wage...heck, I thought 3.25 was a lot of money back then :P

No. There are things science cannot explain. I'm a superstitious person and I also don't believe in luck or coincidence or chance...I think things happen for a reason, and science can't explain things like that. Only the spirit, heart, and soul can.

Wow...I don't remember too many commercials from when I was a kid...but the one that I can think of right now was this commercial that said GIVE A HOOT, DON'T POLLUTE...so maybe even back then I was kind of LOL an environmentalist or whatever. I forgot what the name of the owl was.

The next commercial I remember most was the Life Cereal commercial where the little kid's brother says something like " Hey Mikey, he likey" or something like that.

All of it would be distributed equally among three places here in Reno where I live: the SPCA, the Humane Society, and Feline Rescue. I am not into people charities, but animal charities.

Well...there was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but I have to say that I also loved Sixteen Candles and Valley Girl. Jeez, I was a teen in the 1980's ;)

Well, it looks like a rabid, evil-smiling dog to me. Second thought I had was...it looks like something with wings.

....does LJ seem to be kind of dead or slow lately? I know that I've been so busy that I haven't had much time to comment on friends' journals or even community journals, but I scrolled through some of the places I belong to and noticed they seemed kinda dead too. I guess it's the end of the summer thing.

Speaking of that can you believe that August is here? I live in a neighborhood where there's a good number of families with children, and the other day, a couple of the young neighborhood boys came over selling stuff to support the football team at their school. These kids I've seen since they were like, going to kindergarten on the school bus that stops right down the block from my house. So when the kid rang the bell and I went to answer it, I was stunned to see just how tall he was, and that yeah LOL, his voice was changing. I said, " What grade are you guys in now?"

And his friend and him said, " Oh, we're going to be starting our first year in high school." Man, it just seemed like yesterday they were in grade school running down the street to catch the bus. My next door neighbor's kid was a baby when they moved here and now he's in fifth grade.


Time flies and for some reason this summer literally did that...FLEW BY.

There's been a lot ot talk about the economy improving and the housing market sales slowly, slowly going up. I am waiting for something to come busting down fast.


"THE DOW JONES HAS HIT 12000 today


I see myself in my spinning class, busting out Michael Jackson's greatest hists

Never. Because my relationships with men were extremely stormy and just very volatile, mostly consisting of fighting and fucking, there was no way we could ever remain friends after. That was both of our choices.