Yeah there's typos, suck it

So some serious business to get to today...

First off, Stefanie: see, this helps prove your theory! (I hate stealing from other people's websites, but suck it...it's from intellectualwhores.com):
Men's Ladder

and women's ladders:


So yes....every chick is effable in every guy's eyes...

Next up....Congrats to our winner Carrie, who identified the Song of the Day when we were out drinking yesterday and yes, it's a flippin' depressing song. I love Lifehouse.

Speaking of, today's song of the day is Candy Shop by 50 Cent
I take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl,
don't you stop
Keep goin 'til you hit the spot
Booyah.

It looks like Sat night we're going to a strip club in Vegas....I've never been to a strip club with Kraig, we'll see how that goes...only 'cause I love Tony and Rena will I take away from my valuable roulette time this weekend....From Tony's mass email answering my answers to Rena's questions:

1. I will break you.
2. Casino..I guess
3. Kraig loves wang and we all know it (the guys are upstairs in a different area)
4. I will kill you.
5. You will be broken.


I bought the Vanilla Creams Lipsmackers kit...there's like 8 chapsticks all with hints of vanilla and other stuff...I don't know why I buy crap like that when I only end up liking 2 of the flavors. Lipsmackers rocks my world. If i ever were a celebrity, these are the following products/chains that I would endorse for no money but the promise of a lifetime supply:

1. Bonne Bell Lipsmackers...i'm probably the oldest person who still uses that stuff.

2. KFC...but Canadian KFC, so that I can get endless amounts of KFC poutine. (And yes Nicole, I know PETA is against KFC, but if it takes being mean to a chicken so i can get that gravy over my poutine, well...that's just the circle of life....)

3. Target....anything Target....i should walk around with a white tshirt and red bullseyes on them for the sake of it.

4. Littermaid. Okay so that would be more my cat than me endorsing it, and I woudln't need a "lifetime supply" but i could donate them to the Humane Society or something. 'Cause i kid you not, i LOVE my Littermaid. If they didn't look so damn ugly I'd put one in both bathrooms.

5. Tazo....Tazo Passion Tea is the BEST STUFF EVER. Yesterday I spilled half my mug all over me (and it's one of those tall mugs) but fortunately I was wearing a purple skirt so the purple tea just blended right in and I smelled like Passion-ey goodness all night.

6. Pepsi....one day I'd like to show that it's possible to have more diet pepsi flowing through your body than blood itself.

More IMing with my mom, will paste that later...

My Name Is Earl is one of the best shows on TV right now.

So just a random thought about boys, men, guys, and "the game"...

Last night a few of us girls were having drinks (and water :P) at Happy Hour...and there was a group of 3 guys who kept looking our way. Somehow they ended up chatting with us (probably because we asked them to take a pic of us) and I don't mean to be mean...but....my girlfriends were WAY too goodlooking for these guys. In fact, i'll be mean, because my girlfriends are hot dammit.

And then next to them were these 2 guys...one was so-so, but the short dude was cute....and eventually i pushed one of my friends onto him....

And my thought is...

Why do ugly guys have the balls to talk to hot chicks?

Or is it that hot guys don't have to worry about it because they know the chicks will come to them? ALthough honestly, those 2 guys were by no means hot...one was cute, but that was it.

And on a similar thought...why chicks find it so important to get married....Sabina's opinion (and these opinions are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of all womankind)...

Take edumacation for example. Your earliest memories involve school and you're in school for a frickin' long time, but eventually you know it's over. Graduation day is like one big sigh of relief (mixed with the letter behind your diploma when you're sitting at your seat playing with your GameBoy because your graduation ceremony was so effing long and that letter was from the alumni association wanting you to start donating cash....eff that crap I've only been an alumni for thirty seconds and already you want MORE money? Eff you)...it's OVER.

The same kind of deal is with chicks and marriage...starting with Bridal Barbie we're weaned on "the big day" notion, and then when you're big time dating it's all one big bizarre game, with that ring as the grand prize. And when it happens you get that sigh of relief, it's OVER...no more dating game.

I'll be the first one to say that marriage is boatloads of work and sacrifice and all that crap....but at the same time, dang, I do NOT have the energy for "the game" and maybe that's why some chicks aspire to get hitched at 22 or 23....how well do you want to play the game, how long do you want to play the game...

The game looks like ALOTTA work....it involves constant leg shaving...it requires nice clothes....it requires being Crazy Fun Girl....

I'm a lazy mofo. Which explains why I was always Serial Monogamy Girl....committment is way easier and way less work than dating (because i'm all about my sweatshirt and track pants and glasses on a Saturday night!)...

So I bow to the girls who are in the game and are good at it...marriage is for those of us that are just too lazy to keep playing!

I'm the most immature grownup ever

Is there anything more fabulous than:
My Little Pony
Power Puff Girls (mojo jojo!!)
Disney movies (still gotta open my Cinderella DVD)
Seventeen magazine
if i could, I'd still read Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley High, and Nancy Drew (old skool Nancy Drew with the yellow covers, not any of the trendier stuff written under the original author's name)...

The Pony Project!!! Damn I wish i lived in New York!

Sunday bloody Sunday

Yeah I realized that by linking to the Nicole Richie pic it effs up the template, but it'll get bumped over to the October posts anyway when November hits, so suck it.

The song of the day is You and Me by Lifehouse
You and me and all of the people
With nothing to do nothin to prove and
It's you and me and all of the people and
I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you

What day is it
And in what month
This clock never seemed so alive

I managed to score all 3 of the Holiday Exclusive My Little Pony, which is pretty rare each year...i also got one extra of the MInty, which will be saved for ebay of course (i do this each year and each year i never sell them, excpet for year one which i'm kicking myself for, i mean i have a ton of extras but now they go for $75 and i sold mine for like $30)...

Here's the deal with the lawyer...

You get yourself a living trust, and then get a "pour over" will so that if youv'e got like $100K of stuff that you forgot to fund into the trust, well at least the will part will get it covered. As a safety net. note to self: need to get paperwork to fund the trust for both the timeshare and Kraig's mustang.

There's all sorts of things you need to have in place so that if you hospitalized, other people can take care of "property" stuff, and people can take care of medical stuff...normally that person is your spouse, but if you're both effed up, you need someone else to step in. All that Power of Attorney for Property, Power of Attorney for Medical (=living will) stuff.

When it comes to buying ahouse, most people get "joint tenant with right of survivorship", but apparently that's NOT what you want...what you want is "community property with right of survivorship", that way the IRS treats all the gains like you bought it the year you sell it, or somethingl ike that. Like when yous ell your house, you get $250K exemption and your spouse gets $250K exemption...well if the spouse dies, you're effed, unles syou do the community property route.

And the biggie......turns out that being Canadian effing sucks. The lawyer was like "PLEASE get your US citizenship!" and I'm like "hey I've got 330 days to wait for my conditional green card to be switched toa regular one!"...Trust me, i'll get that badass citizenship when I can, I'll exploit this US thing for all I can. Once again, NOT something I would have known just going to NOLO.COM, but if you're not a US citizen then you get taxed through the nose if you inherit stuff...because the IRS doesn't do that normally (gift and estate taxes) because they're all for their people getting loads of dough to spend within the country, but the idea is that if you're NOT a US Citizen, then you can easily say "i don't want ot be here anymore without my spouse" and take all that cash to another country...uncle sam isn't down for that.

So i have to get a "Q." which is some sort of validity of domestic trust, which says that someone else is the co-trustee and they're agreeing that if i skip the country, they'll pay the taxes. Yeah don't know too many people who are going to agree to that, especially since i'm 3 or 4 years away from getting my citizenship.

And then when it comes to trusts there's all sorts of "styles", what you want is an "A/B" style because then whenever it gets down to your kids, they don't get reemed on the taxes (especially when teh estate grows)...and you want the Disclaimer A/B Trust, not the Formula A/B trust (which is good for say blended families, stuff like that)...

Anyway, it was a 2.5 hour meeting and I wanted to shoot myself when it was all over, and we have yet to begin.

When he started the paperwork, he asked what we wanted to name the trust. Like most people would just put the "Horigan Trust" or something like that...Kraig and I looked at each other and KNEW of course what that trust was going to be named...

The Marmalade Trust

Booyah. Of course if Marmalade dies by the time I have to call this whole thing into effect, i'll probably be more depressed than before....

Kraig wanted "One Trust to rule them all..." but i told him if that I had to deal with any LOTR crap when dealing with his death, I would probably flip out.

Dang i'm sleepy today.

Late night random thoughts

It's almost 2am, Sat night...

Just more random thoughts and griping, as usual.

Met with the lawyer today, more in another blog for sure, but I just gotta say G*DDAMN there's so much to know there's no way that printing a few forms off Nolo.com is gonna cut it, especially when it comes to tax ramifications and what not. It's kinda sad when the lawyer asks you whether your want your family to take charge of stuff and both you and your husband yell "NO!!!"....

My confession: now that Jimmy Fallon is gone from SNL, for some reason Seth Meyers is starting to look really hot in my mind (even though part of me thinks he might be gay...whatever).

I bought this purple/aubergine top that has a great cut to it but has hints of sparkle which always makes things look cheap, so I don't know if i'm gonna keep it (okay, well it WAS cheap but I love the style...just that sparkle situation)...it's one thing when you live somewhere with snow, 'cause then you think of the holidays and all that good stuff. When you live in California, it's more like "dang...can I get away by putting a jean jacket over that tshirt in December?"...

I want a new iron (I know, how very Martha of me to want one), but I want to splurge on a decent one...I don't think the one I have now gets hot enough and I want one with a stainless steel soleplate and a cord that recoils.

Speaking of ironing, wtf...so today I ran a bunch of errands, and I had to get new fluorescant lights for the bathroom (going days without lights in the bathroom is effing hard!), but somehow at Target I bought everything BUT the lights so after I pulled out of the complex and I realized I had forgotten, I drove up one street and went to Walmart to buy the lights...both stores were out of ironing boards, I normally use a tabletop board 'cause I'm so anti-ironing it's against my morals and principles to get a full-sized one...but lately I"ve been handwashing everything I own which means serious ironing required...

Yeah that's my griping, it's about ironing, whatcha gonna do about it? Suck it...

Every now and then thanks to Netflix I get to watch movies that I always think "yeah...i should watch that..." but would never rent and can't rent with friends because they're either REALLY old or eveyrone else has seen it....today I watched A Fish Called Wanda...yeah I'm an idiot, I never saw it, suck it. Totally retarded movie and yet I totally died laughing every time Kevin Kline kept yelling at people for their driving.

There's boatloads of movies that everyone's seen that I haven't and I need to get off my ass and rent. I boycotted Blair Witch and Sixth Sense for the longest time because I got so fed up of hearing about them. I refuse to ever watch Blair Witch (long story,don't ask) but eventually I figured I should see Sixth Sense 'cause I dig Bruce Willis...until um yeah I watched 50 First Dates and Drew Barrymore TELLS YOU what happens in it (this is the part where I wreak it for anyone who hasn't seen it and I tell you that she says how he's a ghost the entire time)....I think I screamed in the movie theater when she said that, and eventually when I did see Sixth Sense i was like "g*ddamn this is a boring movie" because to me, it was super obvious either way...but then again, that blond kid irritates the crap out of me so I'm sure I would have disliked it regardless.

In other news, I think my subscription to US Weekly ran out.

US Weekly is like...my BIBLE.

I just can't justify the cost of that subscription though...maybe if I get it cheap of ebay (which is THE place to get super cheap subscriptions), but even then it'll take at least 3 months to fully process. The highlight of my week is running to the mailbox on a Friday to get my US Weekly....sigh.

I can't believe it's already Hallowe'en in a week. IN A WEEK. That's crazy. This year flew by so effing fast. I can't believe I'm going to Vegas AGAIN for Hallowe'en. I can't believe that my costume will be a non-costume 'cause I'm sick of dressing up for parties or vegas each year.

Although I seriously looooove giving out candy...this is my 2nd year owning a home on Hallowe'en and I'm so psyched to give out candy again...I'm the biggest cheapest bastard on the planet, but Hallowe'en is my one time to go all out...you know...I gotta give back to the people! Gotta pay my dues, and I"m more than fine by that because Hallowe'en is the only holiday where hands-down, every year was a fabulous memory.

Going to surf the web for dresses that I'll never buy and then go to sleep.

I love Arnold!

Seriously, I love Arnold.
I really do.

At least he's got the balls to flat out say he's too busy for the president: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051021/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_bush_visit

I love that he calls people Girly Men...

I love that he's standing his ground on NOT giving driver's licenses to illegals while still being all "Oh, we'll find something for them" but not coming up with anything (hey, I know the game...I know he's gotta BS around to make as many people as happy as possible)...

I love that he's actually taking a pay CUT to do that job...he's not some sniveling little twerp who's daddy wanted him to be the president his entire life

I love that he's not American

I love that my governer was in Running Man, Terminator (x3), he was Conan, that people think he gropes women to this day, and that he practically owns Joe Weider's ass.

My only complaint?

His wife needs to eat a burger....and get her teeth fixed. Egads.

Cats in the cradle....

A few thoughts...

I think Nicole Richie is fabulous, she looks a million times better than before...kudos to her stylist for turning her into a gorgeous classy lady:


Link to a snippet of Madonna's new video for Hung Up...holy crap I can't believe how badly I can't wait for that CD to come out. I'm almost holding my breath....

You've got balls to try and pull this off on ebay: Chinese Police Probe Online Baby Auction
So a little something on my mind...
According to Dictionary.com, the definition of FLIRT is:To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures.
And to clarify "playfully": Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive
That being said, I almost take GREAT offense when someone calls me a flirt. It's one thing to do that with a guy you're dating, seeing, sleeping with, or generally have serious chemistry that will lead to any of the previous items....
But in general, like say just chatting it up with someone, I am NOT a flirt. "Romantic or sexual overtures"...wtf...i have neither a romantic nor a sexy bone in my body, I'm the kid sister type. It took me almost 2 years of eating at the same place each week to get to the point where I could ask, when offered free chips, for the dude to toss in some guacamole...and I almost had a heart attack doing it.

I'm not afraid to get chatty with people and crap...i'll talk to a homeless dude, i don't care, but that's more of a random fascination with anything that passes my fancy at that exact second.

I think at most maybe 3 or 4 times has anyone ever called me a flirt (especially while sober!), and I almost flipped my lid.

I
Am
NOT
a
flirt!

Or at least, a good one....

Flirting requires skill...it's an art. Take Sylvia. I think she's gorgeous, and when you see that girl in action you know she's not messin' around. She giggles, she feigns interest in stupid boy crap, and she can walk that delicate line between teasing vs. making a guy feel stupid....I bow to her flirting greatness.

I however fall more into the "one of guys" category...not as much now since I'm married and I'm trying to be a little more girly girl as I get older (I was NEVER girly girl before)...but some chicks get in good with guys because they flirt, and guys feel good when girls flirt with them. That's WAY too much work if it doesn't come naturally, so eff that crap. I'd rather just hang out with a bunch of guys, talk smack, eat like a pig, dress like a slob (HA...Kraig even pointed out last night how i've got socks from elementary school that I still wear...I love my super faded-to-grey socks!), and let my pretty friends do the flirting work on my behalf.

And let's not forget, flirting comes in different forms. Angelina Jolie does it with her "come hither" eyes. Tara Reid does it by grabbing a guy's shlong in a bar. Same diff. It's all flirting in the name of playfully romantic or sexual overtures.

Mother.
effer.

It's like when people say i'm naturally thin (and i'm not, y'all have seen me in a bikini, i seriously need plastic surgery in the boob department).....let's be real, the people who know me know that I go to the gym at 11pm at night if i have to...and before I got married, i used to leave functions so that i could get to the gym before it closed (it was Gold's, not 24HF)...

On to other subjects
There's no song of the day because i have an old Michael Jackson song in my head (wanna be startin' sumthin') and if i write about that, I'll have to blog about how Michael wants to be hardcore and I told Nicole I wouldn't do that :P

I agree with everyone: LC and Jason should NOT be together, he's an idiot, and LC is way too gorgeous to be with a tool like him.

Final note: thank you Nic B for that article on pregnancy through the years...becausei 'm effing sick and tired of people telling me that i shouldn't worry about being like 50 when having kids... Kraig and i have the WORST luck and we'll be the statistic....SO yeah, i'm getting pregnant by the end of next year.
You'd think with mother nature being a woman and all, she'd be on our side...

Need. Sleep. Bad. Sigh.

It's 5:35am.

I've been awake since THREE AM.

Stash has been a menace all night, he keeps circling my pillow and chewing on my hair and really I could probably handle all that (even though his tail and fur in my face isn't so comfy), but he has serious claws and I'm always afraid he'll claw my face (cat scratches scar big time...I should know!).

Then you have Marmalade sleeping on my side of the bed, plus Kraig's incesssant snoring...normally this all starts at 4 or 5am, but today it started at 3 and since I didn't get to bed until 11:30...well I'm going to be super cranky later today that's for sure.

Might as well start reading this morning's news...

This is effing hilarious
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The author of a new state law that allows felony charges against owners of dangerous dogs was hospitalized over the weekend after his own dog attacked him.

And i love animals...but...irony is always good for a laugh.

LOS ANGELES - Antonio Banderas got down on his knees and rubbed his hands over his new Hollywood star on Tuesday, then stood up and reminisced warmly about the events that led to his being immortalized on the entertaiment capital's Walk of Fame.
Okay I think the man is pretty hot, even in his old age...but really other than Desperado (one of the best movies EVER) and Shrek2, has he done anything THAT fabulous? And before you ask, I dare you to try and watch effing 13th Warrior. Exactly.

It's super hard for me to read the news here in the US because a good chunk of it is political stuff and since I can't vote, I prefer to keep myself as ignorant as possible. It's a choice every immigrant has to make for herself. I end up getting really pissed off at not being able to make a change...or at the very least, I end up thinking "am I missing something? Are people here just retarded? What the bleep is wrong with people?!"...

That being said...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Investigators at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services recently became aware of four cases of HIV infection related to work in the adult film industry. The infections occurred despite a widely adopted voluntary program of HIV and STD testing in the industry.

As reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the first identified case was a 40-year-old man who tested HIV-negative on February 12 and March 17, 2004, but tested positive on April 9.

You know what I love about that article? Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That is officially the best title for anything EVER. Who decides on the content? I would love LOVE love to have that on my resume...."Contributing author for Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...job duties include finding some effed up sh*t"...

Kraig owes me big time...Stash is in the computer room bugging me which means he's not in the bedroom bugging Kraig...he better enjoy that sleep...

Well isn't this effing fabulous:
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Eastman Kodak Co., stung by a sharp drop in film sales midway through its painful shift from traditional photography to digital imaging, posted a third-quarter loss of $1.03 billion US largely because of one-time tax charges related to its massive restructuring.
And guess who's retarded enough to have stocks in Kodak? Oh yeah that would be ME. Okay so i've only got like 5 stocks, but with the stupid service charge I needed them to go up a bit just to break even (I paid $27ish and it's around $23ish right now). I swear, I have the worst luck EVER. There's one relatively cheap stock that I kept telling myself I had to buy (because I know how fabulous the company is), it was only $6 at the time and now it's over $12 and I'm KICKING myself because I totally knew it was going to go up. I swear I'm the biggest moron I know.

Had to yell just now at Stash for chewing on the metal Boba Fett I got Kraig last year

Yeah.
I'm babbling.
I'm exhausted.
And I'm FREEZING wtf.
Marmalde is pawling at my lap (she just jumped on, countdown to when she starts to jump on the keyboard)
I want a stupid bagel with strawberry cream cheese

Friday Five even though it's a Wednesday:
1. What deadlines do you have in your life right now?
- to get that whole wills/advanced medical directiving/living wills/trusts crap done
- to finally get additional life insurance
- to re-appraise my wedding ring for my jewelry insurance
- to re-do the photos for the house insurance (since the last time i did all that was when we were renting)
- to do serious inventory of our stuff for house insurance (becuase people always underestimate what they have)
- to put up all that crap i've got on ebay...i used to be SO good but the past 2 months, i've slacked

2. How well do you generally deal with external deadlines (i.e., those imposed by other people or factors)?
- I do very good, however if it's something cash related I get it done asap...if there's no cash involved, I prograstinate big time...heck even my green card conditional thing i took forever to do.

3. How well do you generally deal with internal deadlines (i.e., those imposed by yourself)?
- once again, depends if cash is a factor...like say getting supplemental insurance for things i'm good at doing...but just general "should do" like cleaning or whatever, i'm a lazy bastard.

4. What's the most important deadline that you've ever missed?
- Well...i missed that deadline to roll over the CD-type IRA that finally was reaching maturity and now i'ts locked in for another 3 years or something like that...otherwise....can't think of anything.

5. What's the most important deadline that you *didn't* miss?
- my green card application (the permanent one removing the conditional sentencing)
- renewing my passport while i was still on a visa (since i'm out of the country, that's not something I can afford to have expire!)
- I dunno...

Time to get in 10 mins of sleeping before my alarm goes off for work.

PCL

Well well...

http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/0922.html

Recently my friends and I were having an argument about whether or not a woman could get pregnant from a man's pre-cum... so can she or not???

Thanx 4 the help, Confused...

Dear Confused...,

Yes, a woman can, though the chances are low. Sperm could be in pre-cum, but only after a recent ejaculation, after which some sperm may be left hanging around in the urethra. "Recent" means masturbating earlier and then having sex with a woman, or during the same sexual episode of the recent ejaculation. Urinating in between ejaculations flushes the urethra of stray sperm and makes the way clear for the sperm-less pre-ejaculate fluid. If sperm remains after a prior ejaculation, then it's possible that they can enter the vagina and make their way to meet an egg.


Hey somehow guys have bladders of steel and can go again within say an hour but without peeing in between...

http://magazines.ivillage.com/cosmopolitan/experts/carnal/qas/0,,638353_615777,00.html
My boyfriend likes to rub his penis on the outside of my vagina. Is there any chance that I could get pregnant from his pre-ejaculatory fluid?

While it's not likely, it is possible. When a guy is aroused, a clear alkaline liquid -- that's considered to be sperm-free -- is released to lubricate his urethra (the tube that carries the urine and sperm out of his body), preparing it for the safe passage of sperm when he does in fact ejaculate.
But any sperm left in the urethra from a previous ejaculation can mix with the secretion. And, if his little swimmers make their way into your vagina, you can get pregnant. You should also know that this fluid can transmit STDs, such as HIV and hepatitis. And, other diseases, such as herpes, can be passed simply by rubbing against each other's genitals.

Bottom line: Since exposure to pre-ejaculatory fluid can lead to pregnancy, play it smart and have him use a condom. If you add water-based lube, he'll learn that rubbing against you will still feel fabulous.




Exactly.

Crazy fun girl

Woo hoo, thanks Nicole D for sending this link from Psychology Today:

Out of Sight, On His Mind
By: Jessica Rogers

Women may be stereotyped as the clingy ones in a relationship, but it's men who truly have separation anxiety.

The longer men are away from their partners, the more attractive they find them and the more they want to have sex with them, says Todd Shackelford, Ph.D. Women are not similarly affected by time away from their lovers, his surveys show.

Men aren't necessarily more sensitive, says Shackelford, assistant professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. He thinks they're just acting on an ancient survival instinct--the fear that another man might get to their partner, fertilize her egg and pass on his genes first. Prior studies confirm the theory, showing that the longer a man goes without sex, the more sperm he ejaculates when he next has intercourse--nature's way of making up for lost time.

I think we all knew that last part...

Craigslist

I swear, the first thing I found when I moved to the was Craigslist, and I love it so much I even thanked it in my wedding speech.

This made me die laughing this morning:
They say thin is in but fats where its at. Whoever they are. It's also said that the best kind of woman to marry is a fat tattooed ugly woman. Because you have heat in the winter, shade in the summer and moving pictures all year round. And if she's butt ugly you won't have to worry bout anybody taking her from you. I myself prefer plump woman over skinny women any day of the week. Don't want an obese woman . Just a plump one. They're so cuddly. And if they're homeless it's even better. Because then it don't matter where in the fuck you drop em off at.

Palm Springs

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Of telephone booths that travel through time

Check it:

Adult Version of 'Doctor Who' To Hit Screens

An adult spin-off of Doctor Who which contains sex and bad language is set to shock fans of the classic family TV show. The BBC has commissioned risque new series Torchwood, an anagram of Doctor Who, which will air late at night. Torchwood is to be written by Doctor Who scriptwriter Russell T. Davies and will star that program's John Barrowman. It follows a team investigating crime and alien activities in contemporary Britain. Davies says, "Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humor." BBC3 boss Stuart Murphy adds, "The people have affairs with one another. There will be sex and swearing, I assume. I'm quite relaxed about that."

I love LOVE love Dr. Who. I used to watch it every Saturday night, it was one some cheesy public access type channel in Canada. Dr. Who is like the poor man's James Bond (and they've probably had just as many actors playing him).

I doubt i'll ever be able to see it since it's on the BBC, but dang...seriously...Dr. Who rocks.

Of money, lawyers, and IMs with my husband

Okay before i seriously start blogging the weekend, I need to have a freak out about money...

The wildcard bills that I get are my car insurance bills and disability insurance bills, because they're always over $500 and i get them every 3 or 4 months or so....but between the two of them, i never know when they're coming in...that's just more anxiety than I can handle for now.

Anyway my car insurance bill came in, and I'm setting up an appointment with another lawyer for our wills and all that (Yeah i know i can do all tha tmyself but right now, i just don't have the motivation to get all the stuff from nolo.com and i figure, this is a one time expense so i might as well just get it over with)...

So that's around $1500 this month, if not $2500, just for those two payments, and if you include my property tax payment of over $5000, we're looking at $6500 to $7500 in one month and um yeah that makes me want to projectile vomit.

Thank GOD life insurance is relatively cheap.

Kraig's going to kill me for posting this convo:

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:18:46 PM): I want us to meet with a lawyer for wills, advanced medical care directives, etc...what day next week after work works for you (and you can get out earliest?)

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:19:10 PM): or actually, can you meet on the 22nd with him or do you have DnD

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:19:23 PM): 22nd is what day?
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:19:33 PM): sat
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:19:37 PM): next sat
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:19:54 PM): yes I think we moved it to sat afternoon

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:19:59 PM): so if we wanted to go sat morningthat would be fine
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:26:45 PM): are you free this saturday morning to meet with the lawyer?
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:26:58 PM): yes
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:26:58 PM): I believe so
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:27:17 PM): how much is this going to cost us?
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:27:19 PM): okay i'll scope it out with the lawyer, it depends if nicole T is coming down this weekend or not, otherwise it'll be the 22nd.

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:27:31 PM): Cost...between 1K and 2K probably. That's the average it seems.
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:28:07 PM): geezes
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:28:07 PM): do we have that right now?
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:29:11 PM): well put it this way....we can't afford NOT to. If something happens to the other person, we're pretty hosed. Like you can't change any of the accounts listed under my name if i'm in some coma for 20 years without serious hell....this isn't an option.

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:29:37 PM): We also need life insurance, but i'm waiting for this presentation we're getting in a few weeks from a new company here at work....and that's pretty cheap.
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:30:00 PM): ok ok

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:30:04 PM): marriage is stupid
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:30:04 PM): :P
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:30:22 PM): no kidding.
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:30:35 PM): I am glad you take this stuff seriously
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:30:49 PM): I thought you didn't like that I did all of this, like i'm being too paranoid.
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:30:56 PM): I dont have the patience for it
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:31:16 PM): no I like it that you do... I dont like IT

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:31:21 PM): which has nothing to do with you
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:31:27 PM): if is a big hassle to me
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:31:42 PM): its like we are married... that should automatical convert everything.

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:31:58 PM): why we have to pay a lawyer something that is pretty obvious is beyond me
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:32:19 PM): its like the lawyers put things in place so they have work to do

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:32:32 PM): But it's not obvious...just because we're married doesn't give you the right to say close my credit card account or something.
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:32:36 PM): Unless i give you permission.

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:32:47 PM): if you die it should
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:32:52 PM): since you arent around anymore
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:32:57 PM): that is pretty obvious to me
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:33:14 PM): I'm not worried about death, because yeah in that case it IS that easy. But if one of us is hospitalized, that's the problem i'm worried about.

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:33:43 PM): I don't want my credit score to go down when i'm out of my coma just because you coudln't tell the creditors to let you have access to stuff.
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:33:48 PM): I want to be able to yell at you when i come out
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:34:00 PM): Oh you will

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:34:05 PM): but if you are in a coma it shouldnt matter
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:34:10 PM): cause you said to pull the plug
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:34:26 PM): so I am making sure you never come out

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:35:18 PM): Yeah i'm all for pulling the plug...i couldn't be bothered to stick around if i'm already half dead anyway!
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:35:31 PM): :P
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:35:35 PM): i am sure our kids will appreciate that
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:35:41 PM): well that's a whole other issue.

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:35:49 PM): leave me with a tub
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:35:49 PM): tube
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:35:54 PM): we need to figure out legal guardians and stuff.

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:36:01 PM): I am all for being a robot
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:36:10 PM): borg me out
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:36:24 PM): i'm not borging you out, that's too much effort. plus isn't 7 of 9 a borg?!
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:36:37 PM): yah and she is hot

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:36:46 PM): if lifesupport makes you hot I am all for it
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:37:14 PM): i cant believe you are going against my wishes because its too much effort
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:37:27 PM): sorry to put you out

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:37:30 PM): Well you and her can lead a fabulous new robot life, and I'll get it on with the poolboy.
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:37:51 PM): I guess I should have married someone with a little more love for me
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:37:51 PM): I'll let you have your life support if you get me a home withe a pool. Or a guy who mows the lawn...the lawn we don't have....

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:38:20 PM): You realize this is going in the blog!
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:38:25 PM): you are setting up all this stuff so it will be easy to knock me off
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:38:25 PM): no hassles

Kraig (10/17/2005 4:38:35 PM): why?
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:38:43 PM): Yeah i'm buying the arsenic on ebay right now.
sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:38:48 PM): this is blog-worthy.

sabinaims (10/17/2005 4:38:52 PM): get with it!
Kraig (10/17/2005 4:38:58 PM): that leaves a trail

Kraig: why is it that women poison?
sabinaims: Because women cook the meals!


Kraig: something about feeling too guility to just do it too my face!!
Kraig: oh I didnt do anything... it is his dumbass fault for eating my food
Kraig: he should have known it was poison
Kraig: dumbass

sabinaims: No, i'll be like Bree...the pharmacist did it....except i'll make sure the pharmacist isn't a GAY actor...
Kraig: with big eyebrows... like the gay lawyer?
Kraig: they are like brothers
sabinaims: what gay lawyer?

Kraig: i cant tell the two apart.. they should have made the horney lawyer look totally different
sabinaims: that lawyer looks TOTALLY different, wtf!
Kraig: like the Rock.. the Rock should have been the lawyer for Mrs. Solice
Kraig: he could have gave the people's eyebrow to carlos...

Kraig: no the lawyer looked just like the pharmists
Kraig: forgot two letters
Kraig: pharmacist
sabinaims: The rock isn't very slick...i think he's super hot, and I'D do him if he was our lawyer, but Gabby won't...

Kraig: She likes the young ones huh
sabinaims: yep

Kraig: like that todd guy from smallville
sabinaims: who's todd?
Kraig: tom?
Kraig: superboy
Kraig: I dont know his dumbass name

Kraig: only that he is in the fog
sabinaims: TOM WELLING omg get it right...
sabinaims: geezus it's your fault i think he's hot
Kraig: Like I care
sabinaims: you shouldn't watch stupid comic book shows

good times...welcome to the world of marriage and discussing life's important tasks...somehow the conversation always gets off track!

Beat that bitch with a bat

yes i edited my running man blog becuase i put 1980 instead of 1990 for the fly girls date...bite me! My brain was elsewhere

So I've been put in charge of BLOG duty, which means whenever something super funny or inspirational came up, I had to write it on wahtever paper I could find and then later write about it when we came back.

It's gonna be a long day of random thought blogging lol.

Just a few disclaimers...

1. It's back to being a gym whore. It's a REQUIREMENT. I can't even zip up half my pants! I was flipping out this morning.

2. I kinda wish i HAD got that coach purse, although I would have kicked myself i'm sure later (especially with the credit card situation)....i just cleared out a ton of my purses though and i need to restock!

3. I also need new bikinis...i've only got like 2 that i really like, i have a third that i love but Stash chewed the halter thingy for it...it's official, i'm throwing ALL of my old ones out (and i've gotl ike 7 or 8 old ones that could stand to be pitched).

4. Beat that bitch with a bat....why can't i get that out of my head?!

5. My cuticles are SO effing dry, and I think it's partially from the dry air in Palm SPrings...seriously, thank GOD NicoleD brought her fancy shmancy suped up humidifier...which goes to show you how old we are when we plan on packing humidifiers instead of loads of alcohol. Although we drank plenty....

6. I'm sorry Nicole that I told you A&W burgers were good...to my defense, I hadn't eaten there in 10 years and that was for poutine so really when I was a kid and they were the old skool restuarant style places, i swear their burgers were FANTASTIC.

7,. Speaking of burgers, my car STILL reeks of In n Out from last Friday...but so, so worth it. I don't think it was possible to go 1 hour this weekend without someone mentioning how good In N Out is...

8. Seven ate nine....

9. I think we all agree that the writers of Desperate Housewives effed up with Lynette and her new job...they really should have put in something abuot how she could no longer work for her friend's company, because as much as I know there's the comedic element to her crappy boss, we all just wonder "why doesn't she quit?".

10. Speaking of lynette...i need fabulous new work clothes, although with winter/fall kinda here at least I can start wearing my sweaters and stuff again, which is great 'cause i was getting fed up of wearing tshirts that required me to wear massively padded bras in order to make me not look like a little boy!

Alright, on to the REAL blog for the weekend....

Beat my head with a shovel to put me out of my misery please

I woke up today feeling like I was going to die. As I got ready to go to work, I had to carry a box of crackers with me everywhere I went...do you know how hard it is to blowdry your hair and eat crackers?! I crawled back into bed for a 10 minute snoozefest after I got ready, which cut in heavily into my "last minute packing for Palm Springs because I'm an idiot and I didn't pack earlier this week and why do I stay out late on school nights" time...

Breathing today is so, so painful.

Today is going to be a huge HUGE huge mix of random thoughts so if you wanted to read something with a point, this is not the place. Then again, I never have a point, so really I stand by my claim that you're all dumber for having read any of this. Go to dictionary.com and learn a new word...that'll compensate.

The song of the day is True by Ryan Cabrera which I think was already a song of the day but it was in my head this morning so suck it.
You don't know
what you do
Everytime you walk into the room
I'm afraid to move
I'm weak, it's true
I'm just scared to know the ending
Do you see me too?
Do you even know you met me?

Let's talk diamonds for a moment shall we....

Now I'll be the first chick to say that sometimes, I don't always think like a typical chick. And sure, all chicks say that, granted. But I had this thing for the longest time, I was anti chocolate and anti diamonds.

Well for some reason, after I moved to the US, i developed quite the taste for chocolate. Don't know why. Maybe it was the turning point of being a grownup, I don't know. I just know that until I was 23, I hated HATED chocolate (except for my beloved Baci...that i've always loved...but that's just 'cause it's like Nutella in a chocolate ball...mmm...NUTELLA....)...
As for diamonds....Didn't care much for them until an ex boyfriend and I walked into Birks (the Canadian answer to Tiffany's) and he announced loudly "Okay honey, but I'm not spending any more than eighteen thousand" and the sales people RAN to us (not that $18K is a lot if you WERE loaded to spend on diamonds, but this was in Rideau Center and i'm guessing not too many people announced that type of thing there). And I believe I tried on a trinity ring...and I melted...and diamonds have been my kryptonite ever since.

That being said, I own two diamonds...

1. The ring that Kraig proposed to me with...but that's really his mom's ring, I don't feel like I truly own it.

2. My engagement/wedding ring...and I was there when we picked the ring out but he secretly got a bigger stone put in than what we had discussed, which blew me away when I opened up the box later and saw the stone he put in.

Okay I guess should mention the other diamond, but it's super tiny and NOT fine quality...but my dad secretly gave me a diamond nose stud thing....he didn't want me to tell my mom, because my mom would have FLIPPED...my parents are the most strict parents on the planet, to this day they can still impose rules on me, but by virtue of having an ethnic background piercing your nose as a chick is not a sign of rebellion...so my dad was all for it, but my mom was beyond against it...I actually considred getting it done for the longest time but the scar that it leaves isn't pretty. And not that I'm vain because I think I'm some hot chick, I just think that I'm ugly enough I don't need to add to the list of items!

I would absolutely LOVE love love to have more diamonds, but I can't imagine that ever happening except maybe on my 50th wedding anniversary when the kids are out of the house and we've paid everything off and then maybe then I won't yell at Kraig if he gets me another diamond ring. I guess I figure before, when you're dating/engaged it's okay because it's not my money...but now, if Kraig got me diamonds...well it's "our" money and if I wanted a diamond, I can get one myself, and we have a thousand things we need first before I get any diamonds. Girls who need new shower doors, laminate flooring, new cabinetry don't deserve diamonds. Kraig i'm sure would disagree, but since it's "our" money....I would never ever feel like we could justify the cost, even after the car and timeshare are paid off....and he would have to listen to me bitch and complain if he ever splurged behind my back....so no more diamonds for me, sniff, until i'm 50....

On to other subjects...

I might splurge on that Coach purse.

Speaking of, I still gotta mail Syl the Coach tote/makeup-bag/whatever-you-call-it for her birthday. Dammit.

Speaking of diamonds, i gotta get my ring re-appraised because my insurance on it has to be renewed.

My hair is super dry and I need to see Henry BADLY, but I have to wait till my bangs grow out...it'll have to be after Hallowe'en, which is brutal because I cut my hair in August. Maybe I can slide it in between the 22nd and the 29th.

OMG my head is pounding....How am I gonna drink this weekend?!

THE RUNNING MAN - best action movie EVER

My final blog for today...

I stand by that Running Man is such a fabulous movie (and book...but really, they're almost two totally different things). It's because of Arnold in that movie that I have this total fetish for veins on guys arms....bugs most chicks i'm sure, but to me it's the hottest thing ever, it makes me drool.

So I created a list a LONG time ago as to the Top 13 Reasons Why The Running Man, Richard Bachman/Stephen King, and Arnold were ahead of their time...the parallels to today are insane....

1. Reality TV: Real World is often credited as being the first Reality TV show (although American Family, back inthe day, really was the first one but it's not like it kicked off a whole genre)...Really, the Running Man tv show was THE reality show of it's time.

2. Infonet: when Arnold has the chick all strapped in her cheesy workout equipment, he logs into Infonet using a monitor/tv screen, keyboard, and remote...the remote was really like a mouse, and he was able to access an airlines network...Stephen King created the Web before it became mainstream. And Arnold bought his plane tix using that system...Stephen King created Travelocity back in 1987. And I know at the time we were all like "riiigghtt...sure you can just do a few clicks of the keyboard you can see flight schedules and book them...surreee"...well who has the last laugh now? (Hmm i guess Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz....)

3. Tight Airport Security. C'mon, remember before the year 2001...you were able to do ANYTHING at an airport. You could go through the gates with your family, you could bring 4 cans of hairspray in your carry-on luggage (as I have done...), you could bring swiss army knives...life was great! Well in the movie they're on hardcore airport security detail...as life is now, and probably will always be. Stephen King totally foresaw the TSA putting the smackdown.

4. Criminal Celebrities Now sure there was Son of Sam and all that...but in 1987, the paparazzi didn't make everyone into a God, especially not criminals or people on trial. I mean, Scott Peterson has marriage proposals! And did anyone really care about who Robert Blake was before his trial? In the movie, being a criminal and going on the Running Man game show made you an instant celebrity...Ben was the Scott Peterson of the future!

5. Lying News okay so really, the news has never been trustworthy. I realize that. But right now, it's a complete joke and I think anyone with common sense realizes the bias and propaganda that's being pushed on us at 6pm...serious pandering to whoever's paying the bills. I'd like to think in 1987, when the movie came out, that there was a bit more professionalism in the news, a bit more journalism integrity, a bit more people looking for the truth...in the movie, the news is one big scam, which is exactly how it is today.

6. Climbing for Dollars: at one point in the movie we see an ad for a tv show called Climbing for Dollars. The dude is climbing up a rope, with crazed mad dogs barking below, as he reaches up for money. You know what Stephen King invented? FEAR FACTOR.

7. Corporate Sponsorship Okay well I know this was around before 1987 and this didn't require much foresight....but throughout the Running Man "maze" (whatever they call it) there's a ton of ads everywhere for Coca-Cola, etc...there were plenty of movies in the 80's that had game show themes, etc, but the makers of The Running Man at least had the brains to put the reality of all the advertising in the movie as well...and now, it's EVERYWHERE in sports and game shows.

8. Audience: the audience in The Running Man screams...they yell...they thirst for violence. You know what that's called? JERRY SPRINGER.

9. Fly Girls: yeah you heard me. FLY GIRLS. In Living Color didn't come out until 1990, but the movie was a step ahead. Too bad J Lo wasn't in the movie...that would have been fabulous.

10. Technical Imaging...in the movie, they digitally swap faces to make it look like Arnold got killed...at the time, once again, everyone was like "riggghtt, sure you can do that with tv"...well fast forward to now, like in that Gatorade (or is it Nike? whatever) commercial where they take the different athletes' faces and put them in other situations (like Lance Armstrong boxing)...we don't even bat an eye. Dang Stephen King knew technology before we all did. At least all that coke-snorting and windex-drinking contributed to something.

11. Pixel Memory Storage Kind of goes with the previous item...after they've done all their image touchups and all that, the tweaked images/files get stored in the "PIxel Memory Storage". You know what those are now? JPEGS and GIFS and BITMAPS! Booyah.

12. Censorship In the movie's intro it mentions how art and music are heavily censored. You know what that's called in today's terms? THE FCC. Yeah Howard should have watched that movie to see what was gonna happen to him today. Maybe in the future there's another Nipplegate scandal.

13. And the most important part... That movie has everything: tons of action...a hero...noble buddies...a chick...a villain...if it were made today, that movie would scream: MILLIONS IN VIDEO GAME SALES. The potential is huge. So huge. Quite honestly, I keep bugging Kraig to figure out a way to convince EA to make the game, and i'm SURE you can convince Arnold to use his likeness...they convinced AL Pacino for the Scarface games....it's not like back in 1987 when the movie was made they thought about video game potential like they do now...

Okay well this list sounds MUCH better when I explain it in person, but I was sick of having it posted to my fridge so I had to create an electronic copy anyway.

Suck it.

Sumthin' about my generation

So more blogging today....this one, at NIcole's request...

Generation X, Y, Echo, etc...

So all the while attempting to get this info from reputable sources, the question is, when does each generation start or stop?

According to Wikipeda (semi trustworthy but it DOES cover serious pop culture), it says:
There are some older Generation Xers who frown upon the classification of those born in 1980 or 1981 as being part of Generation X; these individuals often prefer to classify Generation X as those born between 1964 and the mid to late 70's.

And then you've got this dude who's got a whole website talking about his generation:
So, What IS a "Generation", anyway? A generation, loosely defined, is a group of people who can be, 1) demographically identified by biological trends and 2) have shared experiences. These are the basis for my belief that the 1965-75 timeframe works best, since the 1961-81 years do not reflect birthrates as well as the 1965-75 dates do, and it's really a mistake to try to see 40 year olds as having the same shared experiences as 20 year olds who barely remember who Ronald Reagan was! (HOWEVER: It's been argued that Boomers born from 1946-1958 see themselves as separate from later boomers. That's certainly legitimate, but both groups fall in the same BIOLOGICAL generation. The 1961-1981 dates are purely cultural, and are not biologically correct, and I contend that they should not be used - but see the "comments" section of this site for some spirited discussion on this issue.)

NOw when you read stuff online about Gen Xers, this Doug Coupland guy comes up, so here's his book on amazon: Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture

HOwever I keep getting this same blurb on a thousand websites:

The definition of Generation X is not clear either. Depending on who is asked, Generation X is made up of people born between 1965 and 1980, 1965 and 1975, 1961 and 1981, 1964 and 1979 or since the mid-1960s.

However I'm so not down with anyone born in 1981 being in the same category as me...i would sooner associate myself with someone born in 1961...To me, 1981 is the age of everyone's kid brother or sister, and they're just...different. I don't even know how to describe it. Maybe it's because to me, that generation didn't know what high school life was like without the internet. Or what high school life was like without cell phones or even at least pagers.

Sabina's definition: You're a Gen Xer if you remember Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street as far as I'm concerned. (Or if you were slightly too old to care).

On to Gen Y....

From Wikipedia: Generation Y, sometimes called Generation Why?, the "Echo Boom," the "Byte Block," the "Net Generation" or the "Millennial Generation," are terms used in demographics to describe a particular generational cohort in Western societies, specifically the United States. The cohort comprises those born in the 1980s and 1990s, although no consensus has emerged specifying exact dates, which has made matters difficult and confusing for many people. Proposed start dates range from 1977 to 1985, and proposed end dates range from 1994 to 2002, making only 10 years (1985 - 1994) out of the maximum 25-year threshold (1977 - 2002) definitely Generation Y.

See, this is exactly my issue...I know i'm on the cusp, and 1977 is the cutoff date between Gen X and Gen Y, but I content that I"m Gen X because I think Gen Y people are generally happier and I definitley whine plenty for my generation.

Still from Wikipedia:
Most have few memories of the Cold War (apart from perhaps action movies, toys, or video games with such themes) and came of age during the technology-driven changes in the years of President Bill Clinton. They were the first to grow up with the Internet in a developed, prolific form, including music downloads, instant messaging and cellular phones. The portmanteau "screenager" was coined in 1997 by Douglas Rushkoff in his book "Playing the Future" to describe this techno-savvy generation.

See that's EXACTLY what i just said (I'm researching as I write...too lazy to do as much research as Nic B does in advance...this is on the fly research baby!)...I grew up with BBS's and I remember being the very first out of all my friends with a cell phone when I was already in University, back when a Star Tac phone was SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS and considered super thin and slim....although back then at least the "free" minutes were after 6pm...not after 8....

So what have we learned so far?

Gen Xers end at around 1977 to 1981, but everyone disputes 1981 and definitely anytime in the 1980s....

Gen Y people grew up in a seriously high tech environment

Echo is the same as Gen Y

So now what comes after Gen Y? How about....

iGeneration is a term used to describe the generation born primarily in the mid-to-late 1980s, (1986-1990). The name is based on the popular iPod music device. The term was popularized by MC Lars in his song iGeneration, although previously used elsewhere to describe the internet generation, or a digital generation....

Interesting...this, I will admit, is all new to me. As far as i'm concerned, this is the Teenie Bopper Generation...

Sites like MySpace and LiveJournal are also commonly associated with members of iGeneration, and they have been attributed to creating a global community populated by those born in the late 80s.

I hate myspace. That's a side note

And finally, we have this:

Generation Z is a proposed generational name for the children born after Generation Y. This name is somewhat controversial as this generation is still too young to have exhibited any common characteristics or to have lived through any common experiences that could be the basis for a generational name or identity.
Date ranges for inclusion in Generation Z vary. According to the book Generations, this generation, which the authors William Strauss and Neil Howe simply call "New Adaptive", will be born from 2004 to 2025 (their later book, The Fourth Turning, uses the name "New Silent" instead). Some observers however, place this generation's first birth year earlier, perhaps 1997, on the grounds that a person born in that year could not expect to have any first-hand memory of the September 11, 2001 attacks; indeed, the alternate name of Homelander Generation has been proposed to convey the essence of this. Yet another alternative is Generation D, with the D standing for 'digital'. Their number of individuals included in this generation are projected be greater than that of Generation X - their parents - because of a trend towards rising birth rates among Generation X couples. Their numbers are projected to be far smaller though (both in total numbers and per year count) than Generation Y.


Which basically is my way of saying that I"m bored of this topic, I'm tired, my brain won't think, and I keep hearing bad dated songs play in my head.
So think what you want.

We're all going to grow old and get wrinkly and die anyway.

For your surfing pleasure

Side note to anyone who cares: I eat like a THOUSAND Famous Amos cookies a day, and I don't care if it's supposed to rhyme, it doesn't say "amous" so bite me. Secondly, I discovered the change machine wasn't spitting out 3 quarters, 2 dimes, and a nickel...it was giving one less quarter and one extra nickel! That's eighty cents! That's so unacceptable. I need to flip on the vending machine dude when he comes in, but he probably won't be in for awhile.

I can just BUY myself a damn box, but i really do like the itty bitty bags...

So for everyone's web surfing pleasure...

Little Progress in Stemming STDs...this article notes that doctors aren't talking with their patients. Seriously, not to be all pro-Canadian and all...but WHAT THE F*CK...doctors here (by no fault of their own, I realize that) are forced because of insurance companies to get people in and out asap in order to have a high turnover. It's hard when you're young and you've got 4 minutes to tell a doctor "so...umm...do I need to get tested...for um...stuff?"...Plus not only that, but if you're on your parents' insurance plan, then you can't easily be stealth and go to a doctor without the whole world knowing...HECK they send the lab results to your home, do you honestly think all parents don't open their kids' mail?!

More couples delaying marriage: The median age for first marriages in the United States is 26.7 years for men and 25.1 for women.
....well good know i'm an effing statistic...but I was almost 26...
“Single parenthood and poverty are about as closely related as you can get,” Popenoe said.
The states with the most unwed new mothers also tended to be the ones with the highest percentage of new mothers living in poverty.
Which is why i'm all about abortions to the Nth degree. Free abortions to everyone! They offer free flu shots don't they?

speaking of why teens should know that BJs DO count.......

Biggest email peeves at work...I actually don't mind when people hit "reply all"....I don't like when people send me religious stuff, like "serenity now" types....and I don't like emails that have endless ">" characters in them...nor do I like ones that just tell jokes, unless they're like 4 lines...and if i have to open the attachment, forget it, I don't open them at all (why do people feel the need to put jpegs in PPS files?! that's retarded)....

Madonna: I love Madonna. LOVE HER. And granted i thought her last album wasn't worth buying, this next one is going to be so effing awesome, it's mind blowing. I can't WAIT to see this MTV thing, even though her Re-Invention Tour was awful (i saw her last two concerts, SO not impressed)...but she's my girl, i've loved her for EVER, and she has a song for every mood i've ever been in in my entire life.

PeopleSoft founder plans mega mansion...if you ever wanted to beat yourself with a stick, now is the time to do it. 72,000 sq. ft. home....Mine is under 1300 and I don't even have a basement...That is so bloody depressing. I hate rich people. I want to be the one people hate.

And speaking of homes...

HOw to get top dollar for your dwelling According to this, Cali homes will go up 10% in 2006. OMG i would die of happiness. Why did I have to buy in the ONE zip code in all of Orange COunty that DIDN'T go up in 2005?!

So what have we learned?

Life is horribly depressing and we should all shoot ourselves and stop wasting time. Unless you founded PeopleSoft.

There are no ordinary cats

So here's my blog because some people wanted something to read for this morning...

Random thoughts abound!

There's no song of the day, rather the ALBUM of the day is Something to Remember by Madonna which has all her slow stuff on it (well "all" from 1985 to like 1995).

Fur is bad. Wear fur and Nicole will kill you, skin you, and wear you. Unless you're star jones...no one wants a Jones Jacket.

Horrible laundry issues this morning. realized I didn't have a single pair of jeans to wear to Palm Springs (because i've gained some weight and my other jeans don't zip up anymore...sigh!), managed to wash a load while getting ready for work and tossed them in the dryer on my way out (while managing to separate the "hang to dry" ones)....

Paying my credit card bill online right now. $1,454.41. Oh that hurts. I try to keep it around $800. But that hurts. REALLY hurts. Mixed with the regular mortgage payment and the property tax bill..ouch. The other thing I never look forward to is our disability insurance bills...those come every 3 months, mine is $281 but Kraig's is $428 (moral of the story: get your disability insurance while you're YOUNG folks and lock in that rate)...plus our car insurance which always blows because my car is a death trap (and i need a ticket to fall off....)...

I suck at bowling.

I can't wait for Palm Springs.

I'm going to look like a pregnant heiffer in a bikini in palm springs, FYI folks.
I can't wait for my Vegas trip...I love love LOVE excalibur...I know it's ghetto, but that's where we're staying because I love love LOVE the gambling there. LOVE the roulette tables. I have yet to lose at roulette there (or in vegas at all for that matter, knock on laminate countertop)...

I gotta fill out that volunteer thing for that Alzheimer's thing....i got the paperwork in the mail and now it's sitting in the paperwork abyss....thankfully Carrie emailed me the forms....

Numbers numbers numbers...i think chicks should also start keeping track of the BJs they give (and i'm not saying where I have at all, if ever, since coworkers read this blog and as far as y'all are concerned, i haven't done anything with anyone and i stand by that), 'cause you could never have sex but give over 1000 bjs...that makes you a whore more than say someone who's given 3 BJs and slept with 20 guys...in my opinion, the first person is the whore...so I think teenage girls should count that number too, so they don't let their number get too high...i woudlnt' want my daughter thinking it's okay and "doesn't count" if she does that to a billion guys but never sleeps with them...

I gotta figure out what to pack for this weekend...that will fit in my little getaway bag...

I love my OC girlfriends...my friends are effing FUN....i know everyone's scared that when i have a kid i'll stop being fun, I promise you guys I'll try my hardest to find a babysitter who's on call 24/7 :)

I'll write more in a bit...got stuff on my brain, plenty to blog about, but for now I have things to tend to....hope this appeases the masses!

Edited to add: oh HELL no...no bikini pics...I don't want the lawsuit for offending people's senses...and involuntary eye gouging.

Riiiggghtt....

HA myspace guys are all the same...they write the same stuff to every chick out there and think that we're not going to know they write this to everyone...so no, i'm not sending a picture of myself in a bikini (well...i wouldn't do that anyway!)
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sunshine
i like all of your pics.. you look like a model.. you're super hot..i wish i could hang out wiht you..i'm prettty sure u talk really sweet...

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sabina

I'm sure you write that to every chick on myspace!
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sunshine

not really .. i don't really write that every chick... cuz a lot of chicks are not like you.. so you're soo 101%wrong cutie pie...

Riiggghhttt....do pickup lines on myspace actually WORK!?

Hypochondriac

Not to sound like a hypo or something...

But i swear I'm developing an ulcer.

My stomach is in so much pain right now...and all day/night I've had serious uber anxiety like you would not believe.

And I'm really really pissed about this Vanessa Paradis CD situation. Like seriously.

It's This CD on Amazon which is such a bitch to know that it's $30 if i want to replace it. WTF. That's probably one of the more expensive CDs that I own. G*ddamn it. NOw i'm really mad.

I suppose I could just download the songs individually off somewhere...these are the only ones I want (live edition, not the original album one...which I guess would be okay too, but the live ones are awesome plus they're updated since some of the songs like Joe Le Taxi she originally sang when she was 14):
Marilyn & John
Tandem
Dis Lui Toi Que Je T'Aime
Joe le Taxi
Maxou (SOOOO cute! How many songs do you know are about a cat?)

Sigh. So upsetting.

Going to sleep. Note to self: name next cat Maxou. Note to self pII: tell kraig to suck it when he complains about the cat's name.

Dis-lui toi que je t'aime

So last night I didn't end up getting to see Jenn, but it worked out 'cause i had to return some stuff and get Kraig some Nyquil (stupid Target...they only had Dayquil which did NOT do the job! I wanted him to be knocked out). Got my tv groove on, took a brief nap, went to the gym (Yes Nic, it's all good...they still think i'm you :P)....

Laguna Beach: Okay if i ever see that Kristin beotch in real life, i'm gonna smack her. I can't BELIEVE she said Casey was all "Mission Viejo...inland Orange County"...i mean, it's one thing to make fun of RIVERSIDE or something...but inland Orange County? What is that, like, Irvine?! But the MV reference....part of me was ready to cry, all "But...my home is half a million dollars....and yes i'm doing interest only so really i'm just renting my home but whatever you little brat" even though i'm sure she's making more in promotional appearances than I"m making in my salary but whatever.
I still say Jessica is exactly how I was at that age.

You know what I want to be when I finally grow up?! I want to be on Sweet Sixteen....I want to have a fabulous 16th birthday part that cost over $100K where everyone does what I want and everyone's jealous of me.

Some people want to be CEOs, presidents, astronauts when they grow up...i want to be WEALTHY.

So I've been emailing my ex, and i'm sure eventually he'll find this blog but for now this is SO worth blogging about...I asked him more detail about his dream, and he wrote this (scattered between other parts of his email that i'm not going to bore anyone with...plus i added paragraph breaks because it was hard on the eyes):


Intimate details. I remember them. I thought it would be more appropriate to censor the discussion because you are married, I am in a relationship, we have not spoken in so long, and I was more concerned than anything else... In the dream, we were very close, you were being very friendly, many smiles, it was like you wanted to comfort me, at this stage you were wearing normal Sabina dress, many people were around us in the Allerton mansion,

we were in some kind of large hall with a fireplace, talking, the conversation may have taken hours, we were just yakking like old friends, but as the dream progressed, your attire changed (more to come in a moment), your demeanour remained mostly the same, friendly, open, but now with a tinge of desire - your words were no longer reassuring, but a bit demanding, you began to tell me about certain things you were missing that I could fill, I stepped back to take a look at you, and your attire had changed to an inappropriate outfit for the public eye - stockings attached to garter, tiny black panties, the top was some kind of strange pleather, which is totally weird, again, your demeanour was still normal,

but it was bizarre because of the people around (none of whom were gazing upon this spectacle!), we were transported to a hotel room, where we continued to talk, and the hotel may have come first in the story, I'm not sure, but at this stage we became very intimate and I helped you meet your unfulfilled desires, which was fun for me, because some of your desires were focused on my needs (yay Sabina), this part of the dream was not as vivid as Allerton, but it is coming back to me, we decided to wrap things up at the hotel, enough is enough, and you were trying to be super sexy independent devil may care Sabina, and then ...

back to Allerton, in normal garb, to chat some more, but this time a little more distance between us, I could sense something was wrong but you wouldn't let me in, and a forthcoming swift goodbye (kind of like, I got what I needed so cya!), the echoes of my calling your name fill the mansion which was normal-sized in the earlier part of the dream but now became like an M.C.Escher huge medieval castle...


the feeling was like, we connected, I did my part, but now had a sense of impending doom .. for you? for me? for Allerton? it was really unclear...
your good-bye made me fearful that you might be hiding something, something I could help you with... When I awoke I was perturbed. So, I dished the details and skimped on the intimate parts again, what can I say, writing about these things makes me impresses on my comfort level.


I think I laughed so hard, I was crying.

Later in his blurb he mentioned:
Faune's been great, we are very close, but sometimes we have big almost-breakup moments, zero drama in comparison to us, but still realistic.

Ohhh yes, the drama....so very Ike and Tina...although really, I think that's just me...I'd like to think now i'm MUCH more calm and less caring in the big picture (like it's not all about the "principle of the matter" like it used to be...winning the argument isn't important to me, ENDING the argument is important to me)...but with him especially, because he was so huge (6'4, 240lbs), seeing him angry, crying, upset was like watching The Incredible Hulk if he found out his mom died...

Today is the official day i put the smackdown on the dry cleaner who jacked up my dress.

In other news, I searched for a chunk of my CDs...i'm missing another Madonna CD, an Our Lady Peace CD (the best one too...dammit), and my Vanessa Paradis CD....the first one isn't a big deal, I can't get that anywhere, but the other two are harder...especially the Vanessa Paradis one (yes, Johnny Depp's wife...but of course she wasn't at the time)...

So in honor of me not being able to find my Vanessa Paradis CD, the song of the day is Dis lui toi que je t'aime by Vanessa Paradis
Je n'veux pas annoncer la couleur
Entre toi et moi
Je vois l'émoi
Quand il comprendra sa douleur
Toi tu es le seul double de moi

Dis-lui toi que je t'aime
C'est toujours le même dilemme
Un jour ou toujours qui sait
Combien de mois d'émoi cela va durer


I'm kind of in a cranky mood right now, and probably very prone to writing stuff that I'll regret later, so I'll leave the blog at this for now...I'm so tired, I wish I didn't have to wake up at 6:30 every day (well....6:30 and then hit snooze till 6:45....)...

Little miss black widow

Today's song of the day....
Well since I'm dying for Madonna's new album (esp. after seeing the album PR ad/cover, which is retarded because she looks mega airbrushed but whatever), I think the next while will have Madonna songs of the day.
Today's song is Thief of Hearts by Madonna from the Erotica album...
Bitch!
You're a thief of hearts and now you'll have to pay
How many licks does it take?
You're a thief of hearts and now you'll have to pay
Which leg do you want me to break?
You'll be sorry



Let's recap last night's TV lineup...

My Fair Brady: okay well I didn't really watch it, but I just wanted to say that if smoking will get me a body like Adrian's, light me up baby!

Surreal Life: I love Janice Dickinson. And Bronson is still a pervert. And i love Pink's fiance. And this show is so vacant, it's crazy.

Breaking Bonaduce: wow wow wowwww....I find watching someone tumble into deep destruction so fascinating...although if some redheaded drunk guy hopped in my car in the middle of the night, I'd have a serious flip out.

Desperate Housewives: maybe it's the married part of me, i don't know...but when Gabrielle was apologizing to Carlos on their anniversary... a weird shudder went through me.

See here's the thing...

Maybe it's the First Wives Club thing or something, I don't know.

I just know that when my fantastic makeup artist was doing her trial-run with me and my bridesmaids, I asked her what the difference was between marriage and just living together. I was on this tirade at the time to find out, because I knew so many people that lived together, and Kraig and I were on/off living together our entire relationship...I just needed to know what the difference was, other than legal stuff.

As in, did it feel any different? Did she suddenly walk through the front door after being married and it felt DIFFERENT? (She got married a few months before she did my makeup).

And what she told me was...getting married was like being part of a secret club, you're now part of the wives' club,and you just "know". She couldn't describe it...but you just....KNOW.

I had no idea what she was saying and I dismissed it at the time.

Then...when I got married...suddenly...I got it.

I KNEW.

For example, it was like when Kraig had to do something at work and he said "I have to check with my wife"....now this was something that would have impacted us if we were just dating, but you can't go and tell your HR "oh gee I have to check with my girlfriend"...like "I can't do ANYTHING without my GIRRRRRLFRIEND"...it's weird, because you could be dating for 10 years but it still sounds a bit off...but when he said "I have to check with my wife", suddenly it sounded like "I have to check with my business associate, both of us need to come to an agreement, her opinion also matters when it comes to this decision"....like suddenly you're "up" in the eyes of everyone, you've been promoted in everyone's eyes.

I don't know. I don't know how to put it. I just know that after I got married, I knew what my makeup artist was talking about.

So when they had that scene in Desperate Housewives where Gabby apologizes for cheating on Carlos...I thought "yesss...a chick wrote that part of the script...because she's not apologizing just for hurting him, or going against their marriage vows to foresake all others...she's crying because she knows she betrayed the bigger picture, and the wives' club, and everything that was built together as a team"....

If any of that makes sense. Probably not, because i'm effing tired...speaking of marriage, Kraig got sick yesterday which means I got no sleep.

So I spent all night thinking about how I was going to write a blog about effing SNORING.

Yeah you heard me bitches. Snoring. Boring topic? Suck it.

See I can handle a bit of snoring...I'm a pretty heavy sleeper and I associate snoring with some level of manliness in a bizarre kind of way.

But...Kraig isn't consistent with his snoring, sometimes he doesn't at all sometimes it's ALL night, which to me means it's somewhat controllable, which pisses me off even more.

And he doesn't snore in rhythm...he snores in some haphazard way, mixed with LOUD yawning, grinding of teeth, mouth smacking, air chewing, random talking... Yeah the first few months I toughed it out and sometimes just kicked him gently in his sleep in order to rouse him a bit awake, long enough for him to stop and hopefully let me sleep.

Then it got to the phase where I started to get ANGRY, i mean seriously violently angry that he was keeping ME awake while he was in such deep sleep, he could chew and munch on the air and snore like a jackhammer...I feel like he's doing it on purpose, to upset me...so by morning I'm so rude to him, and he's like "wtf did I do?"....

People have asked me why I haven't gotten him those snoring nose strip thingies.... I refuse. Because I've asked him a billion times to go to the doctor (and what guy goes to the doctor? Apparently none of them), and I feel like it's HIS responsibility to get the damn nose strips. I feel like this is an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond or King Of Queens....seriously, it's not MY nose and he should go research this crap and let me get a decent night of sleep.

I think i'm perpetually cranky as a result...mixed with the cats, and I swear I haven't had a good night's sleep in ages. That's why I think napping is the most wonderful thing in the whole wide world....

If i ever get to heaven, I'm going to ask God to let me sleep for another 400 million years.

Death

Last night I went through hell to drive to Anaheim to pick up my friend Jenn, her husband Chris, and her stepson Will. I haven't seen her in around 9 years, and it was fantastic catching up with her.

We even had a blast as stupid me got lost (my goal was to take them somewhere out of Anaheim, since they're going to spend the rest of their trip there anyway), had dinner...good times...

Coming back, driving on Beach blvd somewhere in Huntington Beach/Garden Grove/Westminster, late at night, two cars in front of me start swerving.

So I slam on the brakes and start edging to the right lane.

Jenn asks "what's that noise?" (it was this high pitched constant squeeling yelping noise) and I start to say "Oh it's my brakes..." (because my brakes have issues, don't ask)...

Suddenly she says "OH MY GOD IT'S A DOG!" and I see that the car two cars up had hit this big pit bull. My initial reaction was that of when I see any roadkill...like it makes me sad, upset, but what can I do....

And then my brain clicked....dog barking...cars swerving...this just happened...that dog is ALIVE.......

So I park my immediately in the right lane of this massive road (ha right in front of a homeless guy), me and Chris jump out of the car and run to the middle of the road, where the dog is.

the f*cking bastard that hit the dog drove off. I hope someone decides to douse him with gas and light him on fire one day...just for fun

Fortunately a couple in an SUV stopped their car right in front of the dog, so at least there was clearance. Poor guy was panting, and bleeding, and me and the couple were trying to call random numbers...I mean, what do you do? I didn't know the area, I couldn't just take the dog to the nearest animal hospital. So the girl is trying to call the local police, and we're realizing we're not 100% which city we were in (it was Beach and 19th street, if anyone cares)...the guy is trying to call animal control, I'm trying to call animal control...

And all we're getting are answering machines.

I so badly wanted to let that dog know that SOMEONE cared...maybe the jackass who hit him didn't, but WE did...and we all knew the dog was going to die...

...that dog BELONGED to someone, it had a harness on, possibly because it broke free from it's fence or whatever.

Finally a dude from AAA across the street came over, and through the mix of emotions he was saying how a vet was needed to really put the dog to sleep (or something to that effect...at this point I was calling Nicole B, because if anyone knows what to do when it comes to animal emergencies, it's her)....the dog at this point was pretty much dead, if not a death's door....

...all this time we're still in the middle of the road, causing massive traffic...

So the AAA guy, grabs the dog's harness and DRAGS him to the median strip.

I swear I almost projectile vomitted.

The couple at this point got back in their SUV and drove off....and the AAA guy was saying something, Chris heard it I wasn't paying attention because I was trying to wrap myself around the fact this dog had died...the girl in the SUV said he was still alive 'cause his tail twitched, but if you know anything about death then you know that there's still serious electricity that goes through the body and twitching happens even half an hour after death.

Eventually we ran back to the car, poor Jenn and Will (she was a little freaked that I had parked right next to a homeless guy in the ghetto)....and Will kept saying how sad he was for the dog...and Chris was like "I can't believe you got out of the car" (this was the first time I met him, I get the impression he thought I was a little too girly girl for that type of behavior)...

We made the best of the rest of the night (becuase it took forever to get home, long story), and overall I had a wonderful night...

...but I can't stop thinking about that dog.

the blood in the middle of the road was so THICK...it looked like paint....

There's few times in my life i've seen an animal die.

I saw a ton of cows and camels get slaughtered by knife (yep, good ol' Ramadhan...and Pakistan...because i'm old skool like that), and I remember seeing my uncle cut up the meat and there were PILES of cow meat and they were MOVING and I was like "uh...wtf..." (I was around 12 at the time) and being the doctor in the family, he explained the part about electricity moving through after death blah blah...

And then I had to put Rusty to sleep last year, and I researched the hell out of it in order to know what to expect....

Let it be known, I'm heartless when it comes to humans. Had that been a HUMAN that got hit, I probably would have only stuck around for the morbid factor along with the potential that I would have gotten into legal trouble if I drove off after having seen what happened. NOT because I would care at all for the pain and suffering of the human. Humans are generally evil in my mind, and it takes alot for me to feel sympathy for complete strangers

When it comes to animals, I'm the biggest sap. I have this HUGE need to represent those that can't speak for themselves. I'd like to think that if i got hit by a car, i'd still know I got hit by a car. That dog didn't know...all it knew is one minute it was fine, next minute it was in extreme pain. And it probably felt SO alone. The girl in the SUV was petting the dog's head...I sure hope that consoled him...if just a little...

I'm in the biggest daze right now...I'm surprised I didn't cry at all after I dropped Jenn/Chris/Will off last night at their hotel...it just seemed like a bad movie, but the knot in my stomach is growing, and I'm sure at some point today it'll hit me that I saw an animal DIE, and I heard it's pain, and nothing we did could stop that from happening.

I'm going to go pet Marmalade and Stash now and let them know that they're spoiled brats, but I love them to death.