Huh.....

This is my new toe flower. Deannie and I went for pedicure/manicures last night. We made a pact to get new toe flowers every time we go in for an appointment. Likey?  

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 8:38 AM 0 comments

Just taking a break....

Ok just scarfed down a sandwich.  I am so stuffed.  I am in between conference calls and meetings about this damn move.  Verizon SUCKS in this area by the way.  Don't get me started!  On a better note - I talked to Big C last night about why we "broke up".  It wasn't all that eventful of a conversation.  I'm not even going to get in to it.  The part I did like was when he said, in his very thick Honduran accent, these few phrases.  Well before I tell you what they are let me tell you what he was trying to say.  He was trying to ask me why I was "beating around the bush".  INSTEAD he said this.....  "Jess, why you beating on the tree?  I mean, why beat on the bush?!"  He said this in complete seriousness.  Arguing with someone is so hard when they use this type of phrasing.  How does one not break out in to giggles?

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 12:05 AM 1 comments

If I don't blog I will explode!

If I don't blog I will explode!  First of all I've lacked on the blogging because I am so busy at work I could die.  Ok ok ok maybe that's exaggerating.  I am packing up my office (of 6 people) in an effort to get ready for our big move on Friday the 30th.  I normally blog at work because it's when I get time to sit and think AND - I'm sober.  I am setting aside the packing tape and permanent marker to blog while I eat my morning bagel.  Ok moving on...

Last night I went to the Gypsy Kings concert with my friend Jeff.  (There are two Jeff's.  This is my friend Jeff that I met on Friendster.)  He had an extra ticket and let me have one.  Thank you Jeff.  I had SO much fun!  Close your eyes and imagine an entire field full of soaking wet mud covered Latino men - dancing.  Add two bottles of wine.  That my friend is my version of heaven.  If you haven't heard the Gypsy Kings - go now to research.  Next year I am buying tickets for both nights.  I am trying to talk Big C in to buying  tickets for tonight's show.  The lawn seats are sold out but we could get the more expensive ones (covered chair area) and sit on the lawn instead.  He didn't sound to enthused.  Something about being mad that I didn't go with him in the first place....

Ok so this brings me to my next subject.  The Big C just moved in to an apartment down the street from me.  He moved from Lorton (25 minutes away) to Alexandria.  Not just to Alexandria but to my neighborhood.  Not sure how I feel about that.  I think he's creepin...

I balanced my checkbook on Monday and I'm broke.  I'm accepting donations. 

God...I am almost done with my bagel.  This means I have to wrap up so I can go and pack up stuff. 

I am getting a pedicure sometime this week.  Maybe tonight.  I think I'm going to keep having them paint flowers on my big toes.  I will post a picture of my toe when I'm done.  Gotta go.  But wait....

Courtney and Cory made me take a test to see what Political party I resemble the most.  Resemble might not have been the word I wanted to use there - but I'm hung over.  It said I was Moderately Republican.  Huh......

 

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 6:19 AM 0 comments

I want to blog

I want to blog I really do.  I want to blog - how bout you?  No...but seriously...I want to blog but I am so flippin busy I can't!  It's killing me!  I have so much to say.  For example - my friend told me last night that research shows that most carb-counter dieters are Republican...what?  how weird.  That and much more....but I have no time.  Maybe later.  Gotta go.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 9:11 AM 1 comments

It's been so long....

Ok it's been so long since I've written a real blog entry.  I have been gone since July 9th on a work/fun trip to San Fran and the surrounding areas.  I want to write all about it but I fear it might take days and you'll get bored!  I'll try to sum it up as best as I can.  Cool?

Friday, July 9th (Staying in Livermore with Serena and her daughter Tara) - Arrived at the Oakland airport at 12am CA time 3am DC time.  I was pooped but Serena wasn't going to let me off that easily.  She crammed me full of unwanted martinis until I collapsed at 3:30am CA time and 6:30am DC time.  Ok...maybe they weren't so unwanted.

Saturday, July 10th - slept in really really late and then headed down to the pool for a little swimming.  Later we met up with Courtney and Brianna for some yummy Japanese steak house stuff.  More martinis.....we eventually went back to Courtney's to catch up on old times although I fell asleep in Courtney's room singing "I had a little Turtle" to Tara until she fell asleep.  Mind you this is not easy to do after having had a few martinis. 

Sunday, July 11th - Went to see Anchorman with Serena and her friend Matt.  It was hilarious!  I highly recommend it.  Then I took my first trip on the bart train to the hotel I'll be working at.  Just like the metro - but it's the BART.  Matt told me what it stands for but I can't remember now.  I also don't think it's the "BART train".  I think it's just "the BART".  I've had much discussion about this.  Please comment if you know. 

Monday, July 12th - First day of work at the Hyatt Embarcadero.  We were having our annual conference and I was one of 9 girls working to help things flow, i.e. handing out name badges, assisting people with issues, directing people to where they're supposed to be.  Yea and they made us wear fluorescent construction vests with light reflectors AND head bands with antenna.  The antenna were shaped like bright yellow suns.  Nice!  It was all worth it because I met Karla - my new work buddy.

Tuesday, July 13th - work work work

Wednesday, July 14th - work work work

Thursday, July 15th - work work work - my work friend Michele came to the meeting on this day and I was sooooo happy! 

Friday, July 16th - work work work - had our big hoo-ha dinner/dance night with the company.  It was super fun and we go to dress in "club attire".

Saturday, July 17th - work work take BART back to Livermore to stay with Serena.  My friend Stacey from high school came up to stay with us.  I also met up with Heather - another high school friend.  All the Cabrillo High school people went out to dinner and then most of us went out dancing drinking afterwards...fun!

Sunday, July 18th - Stacey, Heather, and I all went for breakfast.  Then Pool time!  After a little while Stacey had to leave - so sad can't talk about it.  Finally Sunday night we.....damn I think I forgot.  Oh I passed out at 10 something from exhaustion

Monday, July 19th - GOT A FACIAL AND A FULL BODY MASSAGE.  I was in heaven.  Heather, Serena and I all went to the spa!  I've never really been able to say "I'm headed to the spa now..."  Sunday night we went to say good-bye to Courtney and his girlfriend Brianna (most darling girl ever!).  It was was so sad to say good-bye because I haven't seen Courtney's face since the day we graduated.  He's still just as cute though.

Tuesday, July 21st - my flight out. All went well until I got to Dallas and my flight was delayed.  Yea, so I sat and had too many beers.  When I woke up at 1:30am I discovered that one of my bags had been lost.  Which one? The one I needed most of course.  NOT the bag with 2 weeks worth of dirty clothes...no...the one with my toothbrush, make-up, brush, deodorant, hair brushes, and work stuff.  Yea -- that sucked. 

So now here I am.  Chad, my house sitter, completely made a pig pen out of my place.  I knew he was a complete and utter slob when I asked him to do this.  And in all fairness he did me a huge favor FOR FREE but dude....he left 2 full bags of trash sitting by the door.  Hello!  It stunk in my house like trash.  GROSS!  That and my cat barfed all over my house.  So now I am off to clean. 

Courtney, Serena, Brianna, Stacey, Tara, Heather and even you David -- I miss you already!!!!

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 4:47 PM 1 comments

This is a picture of Courtney being attacked by two beautiful women. Note: They are both licking his cheeks! How could he be so lucky? 

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 11:25 AM 0 comments

This is a picture of Serena, Tara, Bri and I after dinner on my trip. 

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 11:23 AM 0 comments

Here is the picture of the Bagel Begger and I. Isn't she cute! 

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 11:21 AM 1 comments

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I am so tired from this trip to San Fran that it might just be dangerous!  Weird -  I just noticed that I have a new tool bar to work with here on my editing page.  See I'm so tired I can't even focus.  I am going tomorrow for a massage and facial.  Can't wait.  Until then....sleep.  I'll put up a picture when I return.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 8:55 PM 0 comments

The Bagel Begger

I met a little person who I am going to call The Bagel Beggar. I met her last night for the first time. She is about 2 and a half feet tall and likes pink dresses and princess books. She also tells me that her favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty. Well today I woke up with a hang over and went to Albertsons to buy breakfast stuff. Well this is when the bagel begging started. I got the feeling The Bagel beggar had never had a bagel before because she begged me for bagels from the time we put them in the basket until just now. The bagels are done toasting. She's eating her bagel and I am now in peace. I'll post a picture of the bagel beggar soon.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 1:41 PM 3 comments

Last night I went and got a pedicure with Deannie. The nice pedicure lady painted flowers on our toes. Cute huh?  

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 9:28 AM 3 comments

Going to San Fran

I leave tomorrow at 6:30 for San Fran. I can't wait. I will be gone until the 20th and I'm not sure how bloggy I'll be when I'm there. I'm not sure how much e-mail I can check either. I hope to take some pictures to share. I wish I had a damn digi camera. It would make my life so much easier! Anyway - I will be sure to capture my bloggiest of stories on paper to post when I return. While I'm gone one of my best friends, Chad, will be house sitting for me. I am slightly worried - but he's doing me a great favor by staying here with my cat so I'll just have to get past that! Hopefully I will come home to a house that's still standing. Chad isn't known to be the most sober, responsible, tidy person on earth. He's mostly harmless in that he likes to sit around, drink beer and watch the history channel. But you just never know....I'll keep you posted.

I watched Secret Window last night with my friend Jeff. I don't know that I liked it - the movie that is. Watching it with Jeff I found to be quite lovely. I guess I did like it but I thought it would be scarier. I liked looking at Johnny Depp is what I liked. He was kind of dirty throughout the whole movie though which was kind of weird but yet - hot. It reminded me of that movie Signs because it had a lot of humor in it. I am also not a fan of movies that end that way. Seems like a cop out ending or something. I won't ruin it - but you'll know when you see it I guess.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 10:57 AM 0 comments

Sven the Swan (Or Sven the Svan )

At my parents beach house we have a pair of Mute Swans living on our lake. Apparently Must Swans are not native to the southern Maryland area. Maryland had two Mute Swans from Europe that were brought her in captivity in the 60's and escaped. Those two swans had many more Must Swans and now we have a large population of these Swans in southern Maryland. (This was all just some history before I get in to my story.) So we have a pair of Mute Swans living on our lake. I've heard Swans mate for life but I now don't know if that is as cut and dry as it seems. Mommy and Daddy swan had 3 babies this year. All the babies died but one. I'd say the one that lived is around 2 months old or about the size of a large cat at this point. Well this past week a Bachelor Swan came to our lake and decided he wanted the female Swan for his own. The big feathered brute beat the daylights out of Daddy Swan and left him lonely and bleeding on the side of the road. Then he proceeds to shack up with Mommy swan. Suddenly Bachelor Swan decided that since Baby Swan wasn't one of his he did not want Baby Swan. So he begins to beat Baby Swan badly. Bachelor Swan breaks Baby Swans wing, plucks his feathers out & tried to drown him. During all this domestic abuse our neighbor Linda happens to be walking by. Out of habit she looks for Baby Swan and realizes that he's drowning as Bachelor Swan watched! She screamed for help. Myself along with about 5 others watched as she hauled a canoe across the road and took off across the pond to rescue Baby Swan. I was throwing small rocks in the water around Asshole Swan...I mean Bachelor Swan...to try to keep him from further harming the baby. Linda reaches in and grabs poor little Baby Swan by his fuzzy gray neck and pulls him out of the water. I was waiting on the side with a towel. I wrap up Baby Swan and carried him back to Linda's house. We rinsed him off with the hose to assess the damage. His poor little wing was broken and the bone was sticking out like a broken pencil. After some time Baby Swan ate some cracked corn, drank from the kiddy pool, and took a nap in the laundry basket. Early the next morning a bird rescuer came and took Baby Swan (whom I had named Sven the Svan) The vet had to amputate the wing. After his surgery, Sven was taken home to live happily ever after at the bird rescuers house amongst the other rescued birdies. The End.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 12:52 PM 1 comments

Holiday Weekend

Happy Late 4th of July! This weekend was a crazy fun weekend for me. I had a four day weekend which was much needed. Saturday my friend Angela and I drove down to the beach house to have some fun. We had a few drinks at the Tiki bar in Soloman's Island where we met our new best friends Tim, Jeff, and Don. They took us out in Don's boat to water ski and go tubing in our clothes. (I got up on skis for the first time!!!) We're adopting those boys I think. Sunday we did more boating but with my family this time. The weather totally sucked and we got stung by numerous jelly fish but alas we had fun. By the way that whole thing about being able to get sun burned in over cast weather is quite true. My brother bought fire works from the pizza man and lit them for my Mom on the beach. (It was her 52nd birthday). Monday we woke up sunburned and so sore we could seem hardly move. The pain was merely a reflection of the massive amount of fun we had - so I know I didn't mind. Angela and I finished the weekend off hanging out at our new best friend Jeff's house. We drank a few beers, watched a humongo firework show, and listened to Angela talk about highly inappropriate topics. It was a blast. I'm sad to be back at work and still sore. Leaving for San Fran on Friday.....can't wait! I wish I had pictures to share.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 2:11 PM 0 comments

The Doughnut/Muffin Theory

Ok so I have to write this really quickly because I am going to the beach house today. First of all I dumped the Big C last night. Yup - I gave him the boot. Why? Because he was a doughnut.

Last summer I read this novel called Faking It by Jennifer Cruise. It wasn't all that deep or anything. It was your basic lay by the side of the pool and read, book. But there was this one part in particular that I really took to heart. The Doughnut/Muffin Theory is what I call it. Basically she explains that some men are like doughnuts. They are yummy and gooey and great looking. They have that sticky sweet glaze on the outside but the next morning they are stale and gross and stuck to the side of the bag. You can't really keep a doughnut over night. A Muffin on the other hand is lumpy and bumpy and not glazed but can taste just as good. And it's better for you. Muffins almost always taste just as good if not better the next day. Get it?

So the big C was a doughnut. He was a really pretty package but just not meant for the long haul. He was sort of a ....liar. He was a really hot liar...really hot. But a liar. So I dumped him. I'm on the loose today looking for another pastry!

The End.

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 7:49 AM 3 comments