i love Callie O'Malley

Sara Ramirez is hot. and did you know that girl can SING?

DUDE.

ok, so this is terrifying in so many different ways. watch this:



ok, so, WHAT THE FUCK? about 700 things ran through my mind when i saw this. basically it breaks down to this:

if i had to listen to that girl talk like that for more than a minute i would want to tear my ears off. i mean, seriously. when she says she will steal clothes to keep her future kid in brand names, she says she will "STILLIT".
NO ONE's life dreams should include dropping out of school and being on girls gone wild.
and finally, that girl should NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A BABY. this is a great argument for forced birth control for teenagers.

i wish i was there right now...

Today work was lame. It's not like it was horrible, just really fucking tedious.
when I informed a customer that the person she was looking for was on a lunch break, she ACTUALLY said, "Well, she told me she was going to be here all day." Then the bitch huffed like she was soooo put out and then turned around and walked out before i could say anything. i hate people that do that.
anyway, who would honestly expect that someone would work ALL DAY without a lunch break?

sometimes i wonder what planet these people are from.

A year ago, i was just about dying of anticipation and literally counting the days until i would take off for Hawaii for the first time. it made the busy spring season speed by.
man, that trip was right up there in my top 5 vacations. i really need to go back there SOON.

blurry holgas

I was so excited when i got my Holga (a toy camera made entirely out of plastic... even the lens) back in October. I lugged it out to Philly, down to LA and even took it out to Florida, but i didn't take any photos there. Then I let the damn thing sit in the house for two months!

i FINALLY dropped it off to get developed a few days ago (along w/ 3 other rolls.. i'm on a kick) and i've been trying to be patient but i couldn't WAIT to see how the pics turned out.

Got the film back today, and unfortunately, ALL the shots are totally blurry. I'm not sure what the deal is, but i think i *maaaybe* shot them all on the bulb setting, which means that the shutter stayed open as long as i held the button down. if this is the case, the fact that they came out at all is kinda amazing.
Blurriness aside, i am digging the square format a lot, and i love the vignetting in the corners.

This one of the Matterhorn is my favorite of the bunch.

not sleepy

I realize i am setting myself up for disaster tomorrow night when i try to go to bed, but i am just not tired at all.
this is where weekends backfire on me, i plan on being productive but instead i do nothing but nap and play on the computer all day, then it gets to be 2am and at that point, why bother being productive??
So i guess I'll just stay awake and play Skyrates. whee!

also, i am currently obsessed wth mute math - their video for Typical is RIDICS.

Recent travels, part one

So, a few weeks ago i went out to the east coast to visit Yan and Natasha, who live in Philadelphia. it was a great trip and i was really glad to see them both (it had been way too long.) Here's a bit about what i did while i was there.

I arrived in Philly around 9pm totally beat... flying always makes me feel a little gross. Yan picked me up at the airport, and we went back to the apartment. Once Natasha arrived, we went out for Gelato at Capogiro. OMG, it was AMAZING. I had Lime and Pineapple Mint. AMAZING. i wish they had these on the west coast.

Friday i got to sleep in, but Yan and Natasha had to head off to school. I woke up and watched Grey's Anatomy online... geeky, i know but i just couldn't wait another 5 days. Once that was done, i hit the road and went out walking all over Philadelphia. It was a little rainy in the morning but still bearable, so i walked to Rittenhouse Square, a really nice park surrounded by a pretty upscale neighborhood, the Shops at Liberty Place, which was just a mall, but was a nice place to get out of the wind and rain for a bit. Then I walked a looong way down to the Historic District and Liberty Bell Center, which had a crazy line. So i walked across the street to Independance Hall. Tickets were gone for the day, but i was albe to walk around the back and look around and take some photos.

My next stop was Ben Franklin's Grave, which was dotted with coins, which apparently brings good luck!. Then on to the National Constitution Center. I walked around the shop, but didn't feel like paying 9 bucks to go into the museum itself. Then I walked through the Independence Visitor Center on my way back to the Liberty Bell, which had a way shorter line than before! The exhibit was really well done - I actually stopped to read all the signs and look at all the little artifacts that they had displayed, instead of walking straight through to the bell. They had really cool old souvenier type stuff displayed, including a commemerative plate from the sixties that was awesome.

Of course, the Liberty Bell was amazing. There was a hysterical ranger there who kept encouraging kids to play games with him. it was weird since everyone was very quiet and reverential and he all of a sudden just started talking really loud.

After a long day i was ready to head back to the apartment, but didn't really feel like calling a cab, since walking would let me see a little more of the city. So i sucked it up and walked alllll the way back, with a quick stop at Starbs to refuel. I made it back about 10 minutes before Yan did, and when he got back we had a chance to talk for a little while, which was nice!
Yan and Natasha had made dinner reservations, so around 7 we were off to this AMAZING afghani restaurant called Kabul. The food was great, and we pigged out... but of course we left room for gelato (Chocolate Mint, Mojito, and Rosemary Honey Goat Milk)!

coming up next.... Saturday and Sunday in Philly!

COLD.

IT IS SO COLD. i just want to know what the hell is going on. it's supposed to be spring soon! and i'm supposed to go to Idaho in 2 weeks, where it will undoubtably be colder than it is here. UGH. this just serves as proof that i could never live any further north than here.

BRR.

on a totally unrelated note, i am now toally obsessed with this cool photoshop trick - Tilt-shift Mini Fakes. all the pics on that link are actually REAL houses/cars/boats, etc. amazing, huh?

i've done a couple of these fakes, and already i've run out of good photos to use - i tend to take shots that point upward rather than down. i guess that's what happens when you're short! but here is my favorite one so far, from Disney's California Adventure.

Pimps at the oscars

Did anyone else see the performance of "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" on the oscars last night??

truly compelling TV there. although i really don't think i've ever seen anyone so happy to win an oscar!
(yeah yeah, halle berry, blah blah blah.)

i'm sortof over the awards show thing though, i used to watch them all the time, but now they're just tired. plus i get mad that they cut people off during their speeches. it's like, HELLO, WE ALL KNOW this show is going to be ridics long, just let these poor sound editors and makeup artists who never get any credit except on this night thank their moms and their spouses and their co-workes.

GEEZ!

the dreaded 'sad ipod'

my iPod is broken. last night i sat here staring at my iTunes window as each song slowly, S L O W L Y loaded, and my poor purple iPod whirred and clicked way more than normal.

NOT OK.

this would be my FOURTH ipod. battery problems, hard drive problems, and the dreaded 'sad ipod'. and of course now i am out of warranty, so there will be no new, crappy refurbed ipod. I don't think one of them lasted more than six months.

i paid $400 for this thing!! I take good care of it, i don't drop it... it should last AT LEAST 2 years. and now i am hoping i can get it to load my library and that will be it. becasue it plays music just fine, but it wouldn't load. Then stupid me had to reformat so it might load my few new cd's.

anyway, as it was loading last night, and going fine, my computer randomly rebooted. also NOT OK, but that is a whole different story. Anyway, in the hopes of getting most of my music on the ipod, i've decided to clean house. I started out with almost 11,000 songs (and there are a few that need to be loaded into itunes). That is just too much music!! so i am cleaning house, deleting songs. it's liberating, deleting stuff i've gotten from friends that i jsut don't like! but it's hard - there are a lot of songs on here that are good, but will i really listen to them? can i bring myself to delete them? i'm not sure.

i figure i can back up some stuff i'm not sure about, and 'uncheck' some that i don't want on my ipod, but i'd like to get my library down to a manageable level. whatever that means. ;-)

since when is 14 minutes of talking a mixtape?

Troy's Mixtape Of Love is possibly the saddest thing i have ever heard (but in a funny way!) i couldn't listen to it past the first two minutes - it was just too painful. although i did skip ahead to see if the mix tape actually included any actual SONGS, and lo and behold! skip forward to about 6:20. you'll laugh your ass off!

want want want

ok, i know i already have an ipod, but that doesn't mean i can't obsess about getting an iPod nano! I have to o to SJ tomorrow, it will take every fiber of my being to keep me and my Visa card away from the Apple store.

way lighter than my old PDA!

PocketMod is a free, disposable personal organizer. You can even decide what you want on each page, and make it different every time you make one. i'm constantly using scratch paper to make lists and notes, then washing that scratch paper in the pockets of my pants, so as long as i can get in the habit of dropping this little thing in my purse, I'll be good to go! ;-)

Flashback: 1997

for lack of something better to do right now:
List the top 100 songs (go here) from the year you graduated high school. Bold the ones you actually like. Pick a favorite. Underline that favorite. And strikethrough the ones you loathe. Italicize the ones you consider to be guilty pleasures.



1. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John
2. Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans
4. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Puff Daddy
6. I Believe I Can Fly, R. Kelly
7. Don't Let Go (Love), En Vogue
8. Return Of The Mack, Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes
10. Wannabe, Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys
12. MMMBop, Hanson
13. For You I Will, Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna..., Usher
15. Bitch, Meredith Brooks
16. Nobody Keith Sweat
17. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind
18. Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik
19. Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Az Yet Featuring Peter Cetera
20. Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.
21. The Freshmen, Verve Pipe
22. I Want You, Savage Garden
23. No Diggity, BLACKstreet Featuring Dr. Dre
24. I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face), Rome
25. Hypnotize, Notorious B.I.G.
26. Every Time I Close My Eyes, Babyface
27. In My Bed, Dru Hill
28. Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls
29. Do You Know (What It Takes), Robyn
30. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men
31. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T., Changing Faces
32. Honey, Mariah Carey
33. I Believe In You And Me, Whitney Houston
34. Da' Dip, Freaknasty
35. 2 Become 1, Spice Girls
36. All For You, Sister Hazel
37. Cupid, 112
38. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole
39. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
40. It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
41. Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit, Gina G
42. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
43. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112
44. I'm Still In Love With You, New Edition
45. Invisible Man, 98 Degrees
46. Not Tonight, Lil' Kim
47. Look Into My Eyes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
48. Get It Together, 702
49. All By Myself, Celine Dion
50. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
51. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin' For The People
52. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
53. I Finally Found Someon, Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams
54. I'll Be, Foxy Brown Featuring Jay-Z
55. If It Makes You Happy , Sheryl Crow
56. Never Make A Promise, Dru Hill
57. When You Love A Woman, Journey
58. Up Jumps Da Boogie, Magoo And Timbaland
59. I Don't Want To / I Love Me Some Him, Toni Braxton
60. Everyday Is A Winding Road, Sheryl Crow
61. Cold Rock A Party, Mc Lyte
62. Pony, Ginuwine
63. Building A Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
64. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
65. Your Woman, White Town
66. C U When U Get There, Coolio
67. Change The World, Eric Clapton
68. My Baby Daddy, B-Rock and The Bizz
69. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
70. Gotham City, R. Kelly
71. Last Night, Az Yet
72. ESPN Presents The Jock Jam, Various Artists
73. Big Daddy, Heavy D
74. What About Us, Total
75. Smile, Scarface
76. What's On Tonight, Montell Jordan
77. Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
78. The One I Gave My Heart, w Aaliyah
79. Fly Like An Eagle, Seal
80. No Time, Lil' Kim
81. Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson
82. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
83. On and On, Erykah Badu
84. Don't Wanna Be A Player, Joe
85. I Shot The Sheriff, Warren G
86. You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time), Brian McKnight Featuring Mase
87. Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna
88. Someone, SWV
89. Go The Distance, Michael Bolton
90. One More Time, Real McCoy
91. Butta Love, Next
92. Coco Jamboo, Mr. President
93. Twisted, Keith Sweat
94. Barbie Girl, Aqua
95. When You're Gone / Free To Decide, Cranberries
96. Let Me Clear My Throat, DJ Kool
97. I Like It, Blackout Allstars
98. You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
99. You Must Love Me, Madonna
100. Let It Go, Ray J

We Wants the Redhead!

i am currently geeking out COMPLETELY over 1313 South Harbor Blvd. It's got TONS and TONS of audio from Disneyland, including full ride soundtracks, instrumentals, and weird old stuff that was gone long before i ever went for the first time in the 80's (i was 3!). I heard about this site months ago, but it's been down for ages (no bandwith, bummer). but today it reappeared, so i'm downloading like a fiend.

So if you're a disneyland enthusiast like I am, get over there now and start right-clicking - who knows when the site will go down again!

bad day

i realized last night that when transferring my files to my new computer, i neglected to back up my fonts folder. so YEARS worth of fonts (i had more than 500) are all gone. like, POOF. luckily my massive collection was limited to free fonts, so i didn't lose money per se, but DMAN, am i pissed. now i'm scouring free fonts sites to try to get back the ones i actually remember the names of.

then i had an excruciatingly lame/ boring day at work, and found out my boss, who i *adore*, is leaving. then i had to go fill up my gas tank (UGH), but still came home with plans to be productive. i start making dinner (chicken and mushroom quesedilla, yum) and proceed to slice my finger open. LOVELY.

i think i'll crawl into bed now.