My Journal- January thru May 2001
Tuesday April 24, 2001
You know, mostly I'm pissed about being a girl. Being a girl kinda sucks. I won't even go into the myriad of reasons of why this is true. You know them.But I can think of atleast one positive thing about being a female. It happens every day and I really must admit that I love it. It's so great! Come on ladies, you must admit! Tell me now... how many times do you really have to open a door for yourself when you're in public? Practically NEVER! Yippeee! Now, I know it may be odd of me to be so excited about this, but I can't help it. I really love having doors opened for me by men. That's right, men, we ARE special and you must hold the door for us! HA!
I've been trying to discover just how far away from the doorway you can be and STILL have a man wait and hold the door for you. The limit seems to be about 20 feet. As long as you're within 20 feet of a doorway, you're pretty much sure to have it held open for you. I find this amazing, because even when it's too cold, too hot, or too rainy, men seem to feel they should hold the door for you! Suhweet!
And I'm always sure to thank them for holding the door. ALWAYS. This is a must. They must have positive reinforcement to know this particular action is appreciated, so that they continue to do it.
Sometimes they stand outside the door and hold the door wide open for you (works best when the door swings outward). And they wait for you to go through the door first... you never even have to touch the door! Very impressive! This type of door-holding is the most chivalrous and gets the most sincere, heart-felt "thank you" from me. It usually elicits a big smile as well.
Sometimes they go through the door first, then hang on to it (if door swings in) or they keep pushing on it (if door swings out) until you come through. In that case, only a light pull (or push) of the door is needed from me to complete my entrance. This type of door-holding usually doesn't bring forth a smile (unless the guy is devastatingly handsome, then I sort of blush and grin like an idiot), but I still appreciate it.
Sometimes you can tell the guy DOESN'T want to hold the door for you, and just sort of does it because he feels he's expected to. You can distinguish this kind of door-holder from other more zealous door-holders because they usually emit a deep sigh and sort of look at you impatiently, urging you silently to hurry your ass through the door. They may even pretend like they're losing grip of the door. This type of door-holder gets a higher pitched, worried sounding "thank you" from me as I pick up the pace and scamper through the door.
Now, the invention of the automatic door found at grocery stores and high-tech buildings has really thrown some of the more chivalrous door-holders off. They don't know what to do. They can't hold the door for you, so they don't seem sure if they should trip the sensor for you and stand there til you go through or just back out of the way and let you trip the sensor yourself. This situation rarely comes up, though, as most men are only mediocre door-holders and just walk through automatic doors with disregard to any females in the 20 feet range. I suppose they rejoiced in the automatic door invention.
Some men are SO nice and dedicated to their door-holding abilities that they actually hold doors open for other MEN!!! Now THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!
Well, as you can see, I've given this some thought. If you're a man, you better darn well be holding doors for women because it's often one of the only things we have to celebrate each day. Give us our little bit of happiness and we'll try to be OK with your higher incomes, greater strength, no-fuss genitals/reproductive system, and wash-n-go hair.
Tuesday March 20, 2001
Great news!Last week I had my yearly physical and I got the results from the blood test back. I've finally managed to do something I thought was impossible. I'VE LOWERED MY CHOLESTEROL LEVEL! Sweet huh?
If you recall, back in February of '96 I found out my cholesterol level was high: 250. Since then, I went on a mission to lower it. At last years physical (March 2000) my level was STILL high at 226. My HDL was 52 and my LDL was 144. I was upset since I expected it to be much lower since I was eating impecably thanks to learning about Body For Life. The only salvation was that my HDL (the GOOD cholesterol) was high. But despite that, my LDL (the BAD cholesterol) was high as well.
My doc told me that any HDL levels OVER 34 are great, and any LDL levels UNDER 130 are great.
So, aren't you just DYING to know my levels THIS year?? Oh I bet you're about to bust a gut, aren't you? LOL! My Cholesterol Level is now... [drum roll please]...
184!!! Hooray! I'm now in the desirable and even IDEAL range!! And what's even better is that my HDL level is even HIGHER than last year and my LDL level is much LOWER than last year! HDL: 67 and LDL: 98. Rockin' huh?
What do I attribute this to, you ask? Well, a working thyroid for one (a year ago I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism) and, of course, a continued healthy diet and rigid workout program. I also attribute it to taking Flaxseed Oil (which contains HEALTHY poly-unsaturated fat such as Omega 3, 6 and 9).
So anyway, for those of you out there who think it's IMPOSSIBLE to lower your cholesterol levels, think again. All you need is time and dedication to eating right and working out. And be sure to supplement with Flaxseed Oil! If lowering your cholesterol isn't reason enough, Flaxseed Oil helps your body shed body fat, makes your hair, skin and nails strong and healthy, prevents against heart disease, and much more!
Friday March 16, 2001
HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY TO YA!I've been cleaning out my guest room closet this week. Oh boy what a mess, but I'm sure finding some good stuff! The guest room closet is where I keep my old memorabilia and stuff. I found some old notes I wrote to my girlfriend in high school. I thought it might be interesting to share 2 of them with you.
"My stomache really does hurt. I think maybe I ate too fast.I woke up last night around 3am with the absolute worst stomache pains. Shit, it felt like acid was eating up my insides, I just squirmed around in pain while still sleepy and making the pain part of my dream to rationalize it. The dream had something to do with capturing France and Germany, definitely from all our WWI crap in History.
So I said in my dream- 'If I can capture France, half of the pain will go away; and if I capture Germany the other half will leave as well.'
I don't know how long I layed there squirming in pain and blaming it on poor France and Germany-- half caught in my dream-- but I guess I finally captured them; cuz when I woke up in the morning, the pains were gone!"
OK, I know that was weird, and it just goes to show you I was even weirder than I am now when I was a teenager. I do still like the idea of controlling things in my dreams. Maybe you can try it!
If you want to try controlling OTHER things, perhaps you would like to try the OUIJA. For a while there, all us girls were really into trying to contact spirits via the OUIJA. I just laugh my ass off about it now. Here's an excerpt for you...
"We've gotta reschedule a sleepover- at YOUR house. We'll have fun! I'll bring OUIJA if you want me to. His name is 'W'. He's being taken over by someone else who orginially owned the board. I don't remember what his/her name was. Maybe Katherine will... she was with me at the time we found this out. 'W' lived in Uruguay."
Hmmm... OK, so my OUIJA's name was W. I'm sure he didn't have the effort to help us spell out his FULL name. Which is interesting upon itself to find that my OUIJA was a HE. And how fascinating that he was being slowly taken over by someone ELSE who orginially OWNED the board. Very fascinating since my OUIJA was bought straight off the shelves at K-Mart, in its shrink-wrapped packaging and all. But what a relief, huh, that we learned W was from Uruguay before he was taken over by this other pushy spirit. Uruguay... hmmmm... I wonder if anyone else's OUIJA board spirit is from Uruguay. Let me do a search on 'Uruguay and Oujia' on Google.com...
WHAT???? 97 results!!! No way!!!! I wanted to be the ONLY result to come back when someone did a search on 'Uruguay and Ouija'. NOT FAIR!! Alright, hold on... let me try 'Uruguay NEAR Ouija'. That should do it. Eh? 15 results?? Oh wait, that's doing a search on all three words instead of understanding the word NEAR is an adjective for the type of search I want to do. Hmm... OK, I did a search on "OUIJA from Uruguay" and nothing came up. Whew. I feel MUCH better now. Hopefully someday MY site will come up, though. I'm sure that particular search phrase is used quite often, perhaps I should buy some advertising when those words are searched on.
'Ah yeah... Google Advertising? This is urgent, I know there must be many people vying for these keywords, but I would really like to buy them TODAY to secure my position.'
'Sure Ma'am... what keywords are they? We'd love to help.'
'Ouija and Uruguay.'
'Say again??'
Google.com is pretty good at indexing new web pages with their spider or whatever they use. That's why I like them.
Alrighty then, this is all getting a bit weird, so I guess I'll just go back to wishing you a Happy St. Patty's day and a top-of-the-morning to yer!
Tuesday February 28, 2001
Eh? What's that you say?? [sniff ] No good... can't hear you.I went to the TESLA concert last night! Woooooooooooo! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh! ROCK ON DUDE!!!! "GO LITTLE SUSIE!!!!" Needless to say, I'm deaf now. Well, not completely deaf, but pretty darn near deaf. This sucks, actually. Not like I wasn't hard of hearing BEFORE this concert, but now I REALLY am. Oh well, it was a great show, so I guess it was worth it. I was right up next to the stage. Jeff Keith looks... well... the same but older. ;-)
OH! I also wanted to let you know I finally found out why people are always doing searches on my site for bongs, like I mentioned in a previous journal entry. Turns out there's a head shop in Austin, TX called Planet K. LOL! Figures! Too bad they haven't offered me BIG bucks to buy my domain. Or perhaps I could just work out a deal with them. My domain in exchange for free paraphanalia for life to support my extensive drug problem. Heeheee... just kidding! As quoted by Mr. Mackey: "Drugs are bad."
Let's see... what else? Oh yes! Had a really fun party last weekend at my place. Check out the photos.
Also, if you have signed up in past to receive the notifications that I have updated my Journal, please RESIGN UP. The NetMind service is no longer free, so I spent a whole 10 minutes writing my OWN simple Cold Fusion form that will let you sign up to receive notification. The only person who will EVER see your email is you and ME (and I don't even look at 'em), so go ahead and sign up. You can always easily delete yourself from the notification list at any time (although I can't imagine why you'd want to do such a thing). Instructions on removing yourself are given at the bottom of the notification email you will receive. So once again... if you care about me one iota, you will SIGN UP to receive notification when I write a new journal entry. Capeesh?
Eh? Say what? Ergh... still can't hear you. Perhaps that's just for the best.
Tuesday February 20, 2001
Have you ever given any thought to Crop Circles?
Now I don't know enough to say WHAT they were caused by: humans, natural phenomena (lightening, wind, sound), psychic projections, paranormal, extra-terrestrial, supernatural, etc. But it sure is interesting to think about.
I think it's fun to think of them as aliens tattooing the earth or aliens just having fun drawing stuff in our crops. Let's go from there. Who says aliens can't have fun by creating art or playing practical jokes. I, for one, happen to think these aliens are very very talented! For all the above circles, I'd definitely give them an 'A' or probably an 'A+'.
I wonder if these aliens are all from the same galaxy or if there's different aliens from different galaxies all tattooing our earth with their own circles. Maybe it's a game among different breeds of aliens. Like "Let's see who can draw the coolest crop circle" OR "Let's see who can boggle Homo Sapien's mind's more".
But perhaps it's aliens trying to communicate with us! Check out this site: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2000/silbury4/silbury2000a4.html, which features the crop circle to the left. This definitely looks like aliens trying to point to something. I mean, they set up so many elaborate geometrical triangles to establish a pattern, then they break one pattern to obviously point somewhere. But what are they pointing to and in what reference are they pointing?
Or maybe in some way, they're trying to tell us where they're from. Check out this page, http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~mark.haywood/Cosmic/weststowell199.htm, which is said to be a clear dipiction of a galaxy.
Here are some other intersting Crop Circle sites:
Tuesday February 6, 2001
I finally cleaned out my closet on Sunday. It's been a chore I've been having to do for about two years now, and I finally did it. Now I know why I kept putting it off. I never wanted to come to terms with how much of a pack rat I really am. I had clothes in there from MIDDLE SCHOOL! Honestly! What was so important for me to keep them for so long? Part of me thinks that I should keep them for my future kids. You know, don't you remember when you were like 13 and were going to your school's Disco dance and bugged your parents for something to wear? My mom hadn't ever kept anything, but I wished she had. I was never truely disco when I went to those dances, but there'd be a few kids there with real polyester bellbottoms and pointy collared shirts. Oh how I detested them and their oh-so-pat-racky perfect parents.I guess I figured when MY kids had an 80s dance, I would be able to deck them out in authentic 80s clothing, and make them the envy of the other children whose parents didn't plan ahead enough to keep their crap for them. Well, not anymore. I needed space in my closet. Now that's important! Especially if I never end up having kids! The one thing I DID keep was all my concert t-shirts. Now those are too cool to part with. A-ha, Howard Jones, Winger, Tesla, etc. Perhaps someday in like 2050 I can sell them on ebay or something. You never know. I also decided to keep my black dress pants that have the year "2000" tattooed on them in fake diamonds. I wore them New Years Eve 1999. I even still have a nice shirt that says "Millenium" in silver letters. Now that will make a good outfit for my future daughter when they have a "Millenium" dance, if Millenium dances are as cool as Disco, 50's or Hippy dances where when I was a teen. Now I feel a little better about giving away the 80s stuff.
Speaking of the 80's, I was at my mom's the other day and I saw an old picture of me and my first boyfriend, Rob, sitting haphazzardly on her shelf. She found it while cleaning and wanted to show it to me. It was funny as heck! What were we all thinking? I mean, I just can't believe I look at pictures from the late 80s which is only a little more than a decade ago and wonder what was going through our minds as far as style went. I would look at my mom's high school photo as a child and wonder what the deal with those HAIRSTYLES were. Who would do their hair like that??!! Beehives? AHHH! Well, now I look at the perms and mullets of the 80s and I cringe in pain.
All this talk reminds me of a dream I had last night that was triggered by watching Thursday's episode of Friends (which I had to tape since Survivor II was on). Did you see it? Monica and Ross' parents were selling their house and they had to go over and pick up all the boxes that contained their childhood memories. Well, I had a dream I was in a basement and surrounded by boxes that had MY childhood memories in them (and they weren't ruined by mold) and I had to go through and pick out what I wanted to keep. In my dream I was finding stuff I hadn't seen since I was like 5 and I was so amazed by it all. As I was choosing what stuff to pick out, I found a magazine that had a whole bunch of pictures of Morten Harket (lead singer of A-ha who I had a complete crush on) in it that for some reason I had never seen before. Dang, I STILL think that man is hot! Then as I was ripping out the photos I wanted to keep, I started to get chased by two evil people who wanted to play tag and hide-and-seek and I had to creep around the basement, hiding behind boxes and the hot water heater. I remember my shoes clacked on the cement and wondered how on earth they wouldn't be able to hear that. HA! Stupid, evil tag-playing people!
Ehh... anyway, I sure love my new, more roomy closet!
Thursday January 4, 2001
Welcome to 2001!First of all, I'd like to yell out a HAPPY BIRTHDAY greeting to my friend, Wes! I suppose I'll be nice and won't say how old he is. But trust me, he's OLD! [giggle]
Next, I'd like to say just how cool the Jaguar F-Type Concept car is. I mean, man is it cool! Check it out:
I also heard a rumor that they might be putting this concept car into production! Wouldn't that be awesome! So exciting to be able to drool after this car now! Although the new XKR isn't exactly shabby!
Finally, I'd like to discuss how lucky I've been lately. I mean, I'm not trying to brag or anything, but relatively, I've been pretty lucky. Let's see... first I got a call from Quizno's saying that they drew my business card out of their fishbowl and I get a free lunch! OH JOY!! I love Quizno's! Then I got lucky when I stuck a quarter in a sticker gumball machine that had probably 15 different stickers in it and got a TOY STORY ALIEN sticker, which was the one I was hoping for! Next, I learned I will get to meet Bill Phillips on January 13th! He's coming to the Dallas area to do a signing! I'm so excited cuz I've wanted to meet him for so long! Then I won 2 bucks on a scratch off Pennsylvania Lottery ticket. Now am I hot or am I hot? Then I was out shopping and wanted to find a La Madeline to get a gift certificate for friends and I looked up and there one was! Next, I lucked out and found a GREAT, inexpensive ski hotel/air package off of Expedia. Trey and I are going skiing in Tahoe later this month. It will be my first time ever downhill skiing. I'm VERY excited! And to top things off I won the Championship to my Fantasy Football League! Weeee! I get a cool ESPN t-shirt for pulling off that feat!
Well, maybe these things don't spell out "lucky" to you, but they do to ME! I'm so happy and lucky! I hope my streak doesn't end for quite a while! Especially since I'm staying at a hotel/casino during my ski trip! Let me know if you want me to guess some lotto numbers for you or something. I'll split the profits 50/50, OK... 60/40. :-D