90210

Guilty pleasure? Maybe not so guilty. Not sure.

I watched the original pretty religiously. Once I got started, that is. So when I heard that there would be a spin-off, I just HAD to watch it. I wasn’t expecting it to be any good. I was watching to see what “came” of the original characters, as they had been slated to be on the show.

Well…. it is a pretty awesome show. The new characters are completely different from the old. There are some parallels but they aren’t close enough to make it a repeat of the old. The old characters that are there, Brenda and Kelly so far, add the nice twist of having been there, done that at a different level/extent.

I think that the people who brought the show back (and how did it/was it able to switch from FOX to CW?) were very smart in bringing back the old characters (and actually getting the actors to agree). This way they draw in the new, hip teenagers PLUS they get the 20 something and 30 somethings that watched the original back in the day. And – as far as I know it’s working. I mean, it hasn’t been cancelled yet – so that’s an awesome sign.

Basically I am totally engrossed in the show. I’m excited about the new things that are happening with the new cast, but I’m also (and maybe slightly more) intrigued with what happened/is happening with the old.

I’m also still attached to One Tree Hill and House. Rocking show! Now if House & 90210 weren’t on at the same time, things would be a bunch better.

Dinner!

We ended up going out to dinner. Ate YUMMY food and dessert. Nikki was scared shitless by them singing happy birthday to us.

Mom just gave me my birthday presents, because if TEO sees the things they give me she’ll throw a fit about it. BUT anyway – she gave me all things I liked.

A set of candles in wine glasses. A candle warmer with a spice cande. Really nice sheets! Some nailpolish, too. All nice things. I think there was something else but I can’t think of it right now. I’d love to turn on some of the candles, but with my nose being as icky as it is, I can’t. Usually mom gives presents that she finds, she likes, are cheap to give to me (and others). Usually these presents don’t have any meaning to the recipient. Maybe that sounds a bit snobbish or unappreciative, but it is what it is. This time, though, she got me things she knew I would like.

Dad said one of these days he’ll take me to Jamba Juice and get me $50 – which equals two free smoothies. So that’ll be nice. Very. However, I knew it was coming. I should be getting another $25 from the SIL.

Hmm. Not much else. Except. Of course. Tomorrow. Me. Working. Scary. Ahh. Fuck me I’m going to melt tomorrow of being so fucking scared.

Okay. That’s it.

Grr! Anxiety!

I’m starting to feel a bit anxious.

I’m not sure it’s about tomorrow. More about having to go to Bally’s and “check in” so I can cancel my membership. It sucks because you have to enter and leave through the same door, so the person who checks me in will most likely see me exit. I mean, what can they say? But still.

I’m also thinking of going and getting myself an ice cream today from Coldstones… but then again now really feeling it. Oh. Maybe Baskin Robbins.

I feel like eating a nice juicy steak. So difficult. I thought of going to Red Robin’s with my dad and Nikki after work but I haven’t gotten the free meal for Nikki yet, so not sure that’s going to work at all. Suckage! BUT it’s not as though she’d eat a burger anyway – so we can just get her a sandwich – they are only $5. Plus they’ll give her a free dessert, I’m sure. So maybe we’ll do it anyway. But dad has his show at 6:30 so we can’t leave until 7. I figured we could go after work – which would be at 6 – but no. Cause, you know, his show is SO damn important. So now I have to record 90210 because heaven forbid we miss his.

Okay. what else? More whining?

Dan… yea.

So we broke up a week ago. For the days following things were tense. Not sure how they were going to go. I didn’t know if I wanted to be broken up with him or not. Now, with a bit of space between us… I know that breaking up, even if it was accidental, was the right thing to do.

We’ve been talking everyday. As friends, almost. He started his new job at USC. They gave him a night schedule from 2pm to 11pm. Problem with that is that he has to drive his car over the hill into the Valley to take the Orange Line because the Metrolink doesn’t run that late at night. Blah blah blah.

So basically his whole life is complaining. Woe-is-me I have to go to work across the Valley into Los Angeles. Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo I have to work 12 hour days. Boo-hoo it’s between 150 and 170 degrees where I work with no AC (yea, right!). Boo-hoo I can’t sit down while I work. Boo-hoo-hoo. My life is just so hard.

Yea, he doesn’t have it easy – but come on! Suck it up and do it. There’s nothing you can do, this is life, work and get over it. Complaining every fucking minute of every fucking day isn’t going to help the situation. I cannot deal with that. I need positive in my life. I cannot be with someone who is so negative. Everyone is a bit negative, and I can handle that. But when it’s all the time – I can’t.

So I cannot get back together with him. We can be friends, to some extent. But nothing more.

Sort of Apology

I guess some people blog… to entertain their readers. Awesome. I’m entertained by a lot of the blogs I read (and others… eh, not so much).

Me, though? I blog because I like to write. Even if it’s just to whine about nothing and complain about everything. Sometimes I guess maybe, just maybe, I’m entertaining… but, well, it’s not my intent per-se. Just a lucky side effect of my incredible need for verbal relief. So, I’m sorry, I apologize for being on the receiving end of my verbal puke.

Forgive me? Pretty, please, please?  (Yea. I know.)

After my last post I remembered other stuff I wanted to mention. For instance: EVIL EVIL DRIVERS! The speed limit is 45mph. WHY, WHY do you go 35? This does NOT make sense. so I turned on my high-beams. I tailgated him. (Yea. Shuddup). FINALLY he pulled over to the center lane (between traffic). I honked and he put his hand up. Dunno what it meant. But FUCK it put me in a bad mood for a minute. THEN when I get home? I need to park, but it’s late (8:30ish) so parking is scarce. there is ONE space. But the person in front of the space decided to take up a shit load of my space, so I just about bumped into the wall trying to parrallel. Why don’t these people ever get in trouble. I seriously wanted to throw shit on the car. Next time? NEXT TIME? I’m putting gum on the handle. TAKE THAT!

Uh. Allergies suck. My nose is dry and icky.

This morning Nikki came and laid with me and slept for an hour until it was time for her to go to school. At that point I had to get up and watch Jonathan. Fun times.

TEO is still TEO. Tired of her. Just tired.

Have I mentioned that allergies suck?

Crazy. People. Crazy!

Okay. These freaking cramps are getting annoying. They need to go away ASAP. Especially since I’m on BC. Grr at them *shakes fist*.

I went to dinner to Maggiano’s Little Italy with my mom today. It was very yummy. Yay us. No one else knows about it. IE: my dad and TEO don’t know. So keep it on the DL. Mmkay? Great!

We also stopped at Cost Plus to get my dad some stuff for his birthday. Woo hoo.

Now I’m watching One Tree Hill. I so love that show. Crazy bitch needs to go away and die.

Umm. Start work on Wednesday. My birthday. But it’ll be good because it’ll give me the chance to train before actually being in the class with the kids. I’m going to be opening the class for them. So that sort of sucks because the poor kids will be placed in a new classroom and THEN they will be with a sub for a day or two and THEN they will be with a permanent teacher. No idea who this permanent teacher will be. I mean, I’m really lost as far as everything goes with that. Hopefully Wednesday will be very enlightening.

Some Random Pictures

I downloaded my pictures from my camera to the computer, so here are a few from the past few weeks.

He is smiling! How cute!

This is near my house. People put up the banners and the 25 crosses for the Metrolink victims.

On Friday I went to Stonefire Grill for dinner between work and babysitting. I had avoided going because I wasn’t big into their format: pay, take a number, pick a seat and wait for your food a la Carl’s Jr but finer. BUT I went with Lindsey a few weeks ago and really liked it. So I went again. The food is really good (and their carrot cake even better!) but the wait is LONG! While I waited I played around.

There is this shopping center that once upon a time was an indoor mall. (I’ll have to scan pictures). It was a cheap mall. Stores changed. Sears turned into K-Mart turned into Wal*Mart. Some remained the same. Ross. Target. Mervyns. When they tore down the indoor mall and converted it to a big outdoor strip shopping center the small stores inside closed and only the anchor stores stayed. JC Penney Outlet, an exception. They closed forever. Anyway. If you shop at Mervyns you know they went bankrupt. The Mervyns at this place, Fallbrook, is closing (in 4 weeks). Why is this significant to me? Because when I was a child my mom would buy me a new dress if they were on sale for $7. This was the section in which I would find it. So the store has special memories to me. Just to add something else about Fallbrook, right next to where Mervyn’s is – there WAS a Linen’N'Things that closed a couple of weeks ago as well. It remains empty. Oh! And where JC Penney was? Kohls took over. Target is still there. Wal*Mart opened AFTER they tore down the mall and whatnot.

This is Saturday Night. I can’t seem to keep my eyes open when I smile. Pretty sad. I know. I’ll try harder next time. That’s Jenn. Or Jen? I actually looked a lot better than this, but 2 1/2 hours in a car will destroy hand curled hair. Damn it! Oh. I might have been slightly tipsy at this point.

Now This! This is free Coldstones Ice Cream for my birthday! Woo! Incidently, this is as the same shopping center as the aforementioned Mervyns. BTW: I had cake batter ice cream with pie crust and white chocolate chips. It was good. Less chocolate chips would have been better.

Alright, that’s all! Hope you enjoyed!

My Other Girls

I think I’ve posted pictures of my nephew and of his big sister, but I haven’t posted pictures of my other two nieces. Okay, I have, after our trip up there at the beginning of the month. But I think I might talk/post more about the other two. They are my sister’s daughters. They live in the East Bay and I love them to death. I get to see them 3-4 times a year or so.

My brother-in-law posts pictures of them on thier website but hasn’t since June (since then we’ve seen them twice!). But after I mentioned this to him today he posted a few – and Oh My Goodness they are so cute!

That’s Mika, 6 1/2, and Camila, 3 1/2.

Mika and I have a pretty close relationship. She was the only niece for 2 1/2 years and I visited A LOT and spent a lot of time with her. We became attached to each other. It’s very hard for both of us to leave each other after a visit – we both end up crying. Luckily once we’re away for an hour or so we get back in the groove and talk on the phone or on the computer via video chat.

Camila. What can I say about that little angel? She is so darn cute! I swear that she was a doll and someone injected life into her. She is snuggly and cuddly and just amazing. A brat, of course, but a cute one. She has the most adorable smile (as you can see) and is just so… I can’t even explain it.

Here she is with her daddy:

Just look at that smile!

Okay, now I’m awake. Sort of.

Dan texted me at 9:30 when I was still sleeping (and having an interesting dream) and so I’m exhausted.

BUT I’ll tell you about last night. I know you are all dying to know what happened.

So we got to the Bungalow Club at 9:30 or so. We beat Alissa by some 10 minutes. When she finally go there we went in to this place. The place was nicely decorated and such, but it was full. Standing room only. It was so freaking full. Jenn and I were hungry and we could have ordered food there but we wanted to sit down to eat. We put that aside to start with, though, and ordered drinks. I didn’t know WHAT to get so I asked the bartender to give me something that was fruity and with rum. I don’t know what it is she made me – but it was DELICIOUS. It was also strong and it got me pretty tipsy by the time I finished it and for some time afterwards.

When we were done drinking we headed to In-N-Out with Jenn, her boyfriend John, their friend Malicent (something like that) and a coworkers of ours, Ben. We had some dinner (sooo good!) and then went back to the club. When we got back there they were ready to move on to another club that had dancing. So we piled into Jen’s Tahoe and headed to some other place that is name-less other than a “Cocktail” sign outside. John was determined to have me have another drink – so I let him finally. This time, at the new club, it was very yummy but not nearly as strong. I preferred the first one.

This second club had dancing but it also had some seats available. So we sat down for a while and drank our drinks before heading to the dance floor where I was forced to do some dancing.

Finally, around 1am or so we decided to leave. We made our way out, saying goodbye to people, and back to Jen’s house. I got home, like I said, at 2:20am.

Surprise, though, my parents didn’t give me shit today! Woohoo!

Today? I think we’re going to Fallbrook and to Coldstones to get our free Birthday Ice Cream. Hopefully they won’t bail out this time.

Nothing much else is going on. I’m still freaking out about working on Thursday. I really need to find activities and whatnot to have available for the kids – since I have no idea what the situation will be. As nervous as I am, though, I’m excited about possibly having a real job and everything that, that will mean financially as well as to my everyday life. Because this will be the beginning of my life. The beginning of me getting on track.

Fun Times!

I left here at about 6:30 or so. Came back to get my camera (which ended up being almost useless) and then went over to Jen’s. She lives in a GORGEOUS area of Calabasas. Her house is HUGE! If I ever get to go by there again I will definitely try and take pics to show you all. It’s a gated community – and just, WOW!

I met her boyfriend, John and her sister, Jessie. We left at about 7pm or so for Hollywood. It took us 2 and a half hours to get there. And there went dinner. We headed straight to the Bungalow Club. … and I’ll talk about it tomorrow.

But I just got home at 2:20am and I KNOW that I’m going to get shit for it tomorrow.

FUCK! I’m just about 24. I went out with a friend and people from WORK!

Give me a break!

Good night!