Thought For The Day

"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little, happy, high notes? Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals, and the minor keys."

~Jim Rohn~

Philosophies to Ponder

No! I didn't just copy and paste these...I added the bullets too.....I just wanted to update.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.

Bumper Stickers

I hate bumper stickers...I will never put one on my car. Magnets...maybe. Anyhow, now that I've cleared my opinion on that:

I was driving down the street earlier and was a behind a lady that had the following stickers on the back of her truck:

"Try God"
"D.O.G. (Depend on God)"
"Let Go let God"
and all of that was fine and dandy...but then in top left corner another sticker read:

"Recovering BITCH (I try to be nice one person at a time)"


Well...at least she's recovering...but it's still funny to me to have all of the God stickers and then that one...I guess it's better than the "Save a horse, ride a cowboy" sticker.

P.S. I don't like you

I got an offer for a job that I would have taken last week but have declined.

What is different from now and last week you ask? Well, I will tell you. There was a change of staff. The nice man that was property manager has moved on to leasing and his replacement isn't so nice. She can be funny from time to time but every now and then I will hear her say things to clients like "Take your 'I'm the only person in the world' sign off and put it on your desk for a while." What kind of customer service is that. Or how about the time that she was talking to one of our co-workers that at one time looked just like Claire Huckstable from the Cosby show but has unfortunately lost most of her pigment within the past 5 years. The co-worker was excited about seeing her granddaughter that she hadn't seen in about 5 or 6 years. The new property manager said "She might not recognize you now. You're white." I could not believe that. This woman hasn't taken any pictures in 5 years because she is sensitive about it. She doesn't need someone to point it out for her. There are more examples, but they are hard to explain.

This has happened within the past 2 weeks...that's how long she's been with the company. I've been helping her out and working as her assistant until she can hire someone else. I was very surprised when I got an email from her offering me a job. I respectfully replied to her and said no. Although I'm sure I would get a pay raise if I took that job, I'd rather take my chances with my job and my nice supervisors. I think that with my bonuses it'd be about even anyway.

Just random talk. Bye..

I Give Myself Very Good Advice....

but I very seldom follow it....

So, who am I to give advice? Especially about relationships...especially to my mom.

Well, my mom broke up with her fiance of 3-4 years and is moving to Sacramento. When she told me she was leaving him I was put in a time warp back to a couple of years ago when she left my step dad. I held my breath. "Are you leaving a note this time?" I could tell she was smiling, "He and I already talked about it and we are going to take space from each other." She wanted to know what I thought about what she is doing. Of course I had to give her my real opinion: "Maybe it wasn't the best idea to start a relationship when the thing that attracts you to them the most is that they own a house." She said, "I know that now Crys. Guess what! He just bought me a laptop to keep in touch with him." She went into detail of all of it's features. I rolled my eyes "Do you have any intentions of moving back there to be with him?" She laughed, "Of course not." Of course not...right.

She listed her reasons:

He can't dance

His friends are snobs

The sex...blah blah blah

She didn't feel like the house was hers too

and the one that I could tell meant the most to her:

Most of his wages are being garnished for child support

I know that I am my mother's daughter. There are some things that, despite myself, I have done that would be "Belinda-like":

I just leave situations if I am not happy in

I sometimes run in 'survival mode'

My pets are my children (lol. I have to meet my 'brother' Augie when she comes to Sacramento)

I have hurt some people who are close to me for my own selfishness

We both speak with a Filipino accent (hey, I do it when I am mimicking her)

I think that what happened was that I spent so much time trying not to become my father that I accidentally picked up some of my mother's traits/faults/mannerisms(or whatever) when I wasn't paying attention. Damn.

She told me that she was coming to Sacramento about 2 months ago, but she said she was visiting my aunt. She already knew then that she was leaving her fiance. She just doesn't like to tell people until her plan is concrete. I don't know why I didn't see it coming. She used the same excuse when she was leaving my step dad..but was visiting in NY (but I knew that something was off since all of her family living on the west coast)

What to do? I can see it now...if I get a house, she is going to try to move in with me. She's already talked about visiting in my apartment so...hopefully that never happens now that I know that when she says that she is 'visiting' someplace that she means she is moving there. Oh well, I probably owe her at least 10 years (probably how long she took care of me) anyway so I guess I'd have to suck it up.

Anyhow, that's all of the rambling for now. Bye

Church Porn?

Well....this is random but I thought I'd share.

Last night I had rehearsal for a wedding that I am singing at this Saturday. We went through the music as normal until there was a song that I was not familiar with. One line made me giggle to myself: "When love explodes and fills the sky..." I had heard it made fun of many times by fellow musicians but never thought I'd have to sing it. Lucky me.

Hippy Name?

I was in the drive through at Coffee Bean (and Tea Leaf) minding my own business when the cashier takes my debit card and says, "Oh, I remeber you...you're the one with the hippy name"

Now tell me honestly, is my name a hippy name?? I happen to like my name a lot...
(Note to Erin: I am not asking if I am a tree hugging hippy. I know your opinion in that)

AHHH

I stumbled across from this. Warning to men, this may make you cringe.



This is a real product. It would be effective I suppose. It just freaks me out a little.

For more info: FemDefence

Sun, Rain, Wind, Hail: A Picture Story

So...This weekend Janell and I decided to go to Cathedral Gorge. What's that you ask?

As you can see, it's a whole bunch of mud that has formed some beautiful caves and mountainy things. It's about 80 miles from Cedar City, UT.



Janell and I decided to explore some of the caves because it was a beautiful day. It was about 70°

We did some hiking and climbing and took some pictures in the meantime


Here's me and Janell


And here I am after scaling the treacherous mud mountain.

We decided to take a hike (as others have suggested to us before) and soon we were getting hot. We said, "God, a little rain would feel good right about now...but only a little please." We continued until we got to the top of Miller Peak. We caught our breath and looked around. It was beautiful (except for the paved road behind the overlook that took tourists directly to where we were.)We realized that during our hike, the sky had begun to darken. We sat for a while and heard thunder rolling across the sky. We heard one drop of rain fall to the ground and decided that we had better go back down the hiking trail before it got slippery.

It started sprinkling. Soon the sprinkles became a little bigger and fell a little faster. We finally reached flat land and relaxed for a bit. The rain felt good. And then we looked up and saw an ominous cloud starting to roll in.



We watched it move across the sky in awe. It was moving pretty fast. Soon we saw the first bolt of lightning and the wind picked up considerably. We walked faster to get to the van (we borrowed it from Janell's mom) and before we knew it, it was raining at full force. We ran to get to the van and jumped in the back so we wouldn't get mud everywhere. Everything outside was soaking. we watched the lightning, wind and rain for a while and then decided that we had better get going before the roads got too dangerous.

We started driving back towards Vegas in the rain. Lightning was all around us. All of the sudden the rain started getting louder. The sound of the rain on the windshield got so loud that Janell and I had to yell at eachother to hear. I looked at the temperature: 47°. Janell noticed that the 'rain' was starting to stick to the windows and the road. It was hail. It continued to attack us for several minutes. It sounded as though we were driving through a war field. We were worried that there would be dents on the van (upon inspection there were no dents, thank God) The rest of the drive home was uneventful.

Overall we both had fun. Everything happened in perfect timing. I am very happy that we decided to hike back down when we did otherwise we would have been muddy messes stuck in the rain. So anyway...that was my Saturday....

DMV

Well, here's another update...just starting slow I suppose...

I got my personalized license plate yesterday after a fun wait in the DMV. I got there about 15 mins before they closed the front doors. Lucky me, I had over 150 numbers ahead of me. One person even offered $100 to someone who had a number that was closer to being called...he found a seller too and was up and out in about 5 minutes. And about an hour and a half or so later I was up and out too. Oh well, my plate makes me happy :).

Blog

is now updated. I am still alive...just not updating for now....obviously other than this.