leopard

sugigrl upgraded me and today is the first day i've used my laptop. i logged in to yahoo IM and ichat and both disconnected after a while - i lost my connection supposedly, but i was still connected to the internet and surfing the web. hmmm. curious. i wonder? do i offend?

i seriously serious mean to blog more!

but something always happens. so finally por fin i'm gonna write! tonight my uncle loco d and his wife wanted to take me to dinner at my (& my parents) favorite local mexican restaurant in el segundo. it was fun, and although they were keeping track of our drinks (but they did order 2 pitchers of margaritas, which is 2 more than they normally want), it was fun. we were expecting the drink counting -- "jimmy, are you driving? i don't want to pour you a 2nd margarita if you're driving", so it was actually comedy. it was a lot of fun actually and the food was good (as always).

this weekend was fun too. thursday-saturday morn i was with sugigrl and fam. super good times!!! plus we were in the new mega fun super duper minivan... 17 cup holders and that's just the beginning of how awesome the car is! seriously... i'm serious! i'm not prone to minivan love but damn, this one is hot! like a curry! then saturday night pablo and his bride paula, on their honeymoon in cali, drove down to manhattan beach and we went out for a walk, then to grab some grub, a few beers, and laughed a whole lot. pablo's lady is super rad to the max and i'm so happy for him! plus looking forward to saying howdy whenever i finally go visit spain!

now i'm just going to go read. i'm almost done with this one book i'm dying to finish... i guess i'm not as sci-fi nerrrrdo as i thought. as i thought i was? what's the most correctly non-esl way of saying it? :) and yes, i said correctly on purpose. dead dog lying! ::chuckle:: ::chuckle::

potentially sounds like me

home sweet home

ah... home in my apartment after the semi-big moving weekend. it was the weekend when i effectively took the last of the stuff to goodwill, out of the closet came to pick up my valuables that i couldn't take with me although i would have loved to but at least out of the closet is for a good cause, and then i loaded up my parents' accord with the last of my stuff coming home (well most of the last... i still have bathroom products and my hamper to go).

tonight was family night at the country club... so we had dinner... my two uncles "discussed" and then we called it a night. i almost felt like going home to my parents' where the sangria/wine/beer is ever-flowing but my dad was like "there is no tv at your apartment and you have homework so gayle, drive her to her place".... so i picked up a large can of tecate and a mr clean magic eraser (to spiffy up my place before i "clean it" so at least my landlord can show it) and here i am.... desperately missing my tv and desperately not wanting to do homework and i guess you could say desperately seeking susan aka sandy caluso.

and yeah, so i'm on hold to change my address with wells fargo. wth is wrong with these people. i changed my address online ages ago and yet, they keep sending my crap here... and it's not forwarded like my other mail is. what is the dealio yo? wells fargo is cruising for a bruising (don't even get me started about when that junkie stole my bag in valencia and it took almost 6 months for wells fargo to cut off that card of mine (which i closed immediately but they linked it to my new account and just couldn't stop letting the charges go through... that junkie got like $3000 that wells fargo had to give me because it was their fault). but yeah, so wells fargo is the sucks. and i've been on hold for the next avail rep for 20 min and counting.

it's funny though... my place is super sparse and yet i almost like it better. i will be sad to let this place go... not the most awesomeness of places, but it was home. and yeah my neighbor was PSYCHO but in the end she was nice, who knew! hahaha. i think she's scared of who will move in over me.... anyways, so crazy to think after this weekend i'll be done, out of here, over it. back to living with the parental unit. however it's nice to be back with my cats.... i have missed them and they are so funny... and the nights i spend at my parents my cat belle, comes in after my mom falls asleep (so as not to offend her) and snuggles with me til the morning, when she wants her can cat food and goes upstairs to wake up my mom. ahhh...

anyways, so yeah, updated my addy finally with wells fargo... something about how the post office leaves them little notes and things don't get updated for 6 weeks (cuz i said how all of my mail gets forwarded but not my wells fargo mail for some reason) but they will take care of it right away. sure thing capitan.

i guess i should pack and do homework later. homework is overrated, right? mostly. yes? no? do you like me? am i your boyfriend? hahaha. yep yep.

anything not to study

i seriously don't know what my major malfunction is. i have to do a lot of work... all the reading and excercises, our homework for this week, and also post 2 examples and comment on everyone and their mother's examples. yet i can't do it. i got to work early to focus and not be distracted by goofing around my apartment, and yet here i've watered plants, filed away things that don't really need to be done (they should be done eventually but its not necessary now in the least). i've had a super huge gigantic coffee and now i'm having a coke... i just can't get my mind to focus. its like the hamster in my brain is on crack and freaking out in his cage instead of running on the wheel like a good lil guy. haha.

my dad was like "you do this every week and you're in what? week 7? great job" hahahaha. i wonder how i made it through college.

which reminds me of a funny story... i took quantitative analysis one quarter and we had to pick our lab partners and form groups of 4. these 3 guys picked me and one guy told me it was because on the first day in lab, when we worked individually, i was done first so they thought i was the smartest. i was like "no, i just don't want to be in lab all afternoon" hahahaha. oops.

the elusive wild tigger beast

friday after my b.i.l. (bro-in-law) got off work, he and i were hanging out and all of a sudden he sees something out the window. it was the neighbor's little over a year old kitten that had been missing for over a month! so we text my sister, she says catch it, and out my b.i.l. and i go to see about luring it back. we figured it would come for cat treats... but i guess he's been outside for too long. he just kept crying and slightly advancing but still wary and anytime we moved he would make like he was gonna bolt. so josh starts tossing treats to it so it smells them, eats them and knows they are food. i went in and got some canned cat food and we do the same. we spent like 40 minutes... he came near, then got scared and ran down into the ravine. we threw some more canned cat food to try to lure him up but he sat down and looked like it was nap time from the little he had eaten.

we give up and start to go inside, and he comes back up the hill crying. this time josh comes out with the bag of cat food and we sit on the patio and toss it near us trying to get him to approach us without us scaring him. he for some reason comes near me so i slowly reach down, pet him and he wants to be pet so he relaxes and i grab him. we had my sister's "kittywalk tunnel" up earlier for theo, so we put the cat in there. he kind of is freaking out, but what cat after being wild for a month wouldn't? understandable.

the poor cat was starving and started gulping down the food we had in the tunnel, so josh goes to get a bowl of water for the lil guy (well, he's a big guy, but he's so young and skinny and cute). i'm on the phone with my sister relaying the story and i noticed the cat is backing towards the door of the tunnel... which josh forgot to lock! i yell josh! and josh looks and meanwhile the cat is out and down the hill again into the ravine (the ravine is a fenced off area that the city supposedly only has access too... foxes live there ,etc). so my sister is just not believing us and tells us to recatch the cat. (her neighbor just remarried, told my sister she finally found the right guy, and they found out he has stage 4 throat cancer, he has 7 year old twins that live with them, she was over at her mom & dad's house that day to make them dinner since her mom just got out of the hospital after having pneumonia... she is just having a real stressful time right now). so my sister was like get that cat.

so this time i try to lure the cat back up the hill, but he really on guard with me and josh now. josh hops the ravine fence to see if he can spook the cat back up the hill. he comes back up but into the neighbor's yard. i try to walk around but they put up a fence and it's locked... but i can see in. the cat is still crying and walks over to the dog door he used to use to go in the house and we're telling him "go in... go in" but then the neighbor's llasa apso comes out barking and scares the cat and the cat bolts past josh and he's gone.... this time for good, we fear.

so we go inside, and my sister comes home... all "where is the cat?" so we tell her and right then we see him back on the patio trying to find the food we had thrown outside. so my sister tip toes outside, get down on her hands and knees and crawls over to him and gets him! she wanted to bring him in but josh was like "he's dirty and probably has fleas" so we put him back in the tunnel. she calls her neighbor, who she said sounded just so stressed and exhausted and we said we'd put the cat in her garage for her when they got home later that night (she said there was a litterbox and food still in there for him).

so we got out the carrier that my sister's cats go to the vet in and tried to get him to go into it... but he wasn't going and so my sister picked him up and tried to put him in but he starts freaking out. she's trying to hold on to him but he's scratching her up... i get the blanket and try to use it to somehow wrap him in it but he ends up scratching me, and finally he gets his nails into her neck and she falls to her knees crying trying not to let him go but she has to and he disappears deep into the ravine. i just got 2 deep cuts on the wrist and 1 long scratch on the arm, but she got 4 deep punctures and scratches on the neck and an assortment of punctures and scratches on her shoulders (like shrapnel hit her). wth kitty! let us in! let us love you! :)

so we call the neighbor and tell her. tigger got away (we didn't tell her we had him 1 time already).

the next day we keep looking outside for him... we left food out there for him. no sign. then my sister got a text that evening... the neighbor's son's girlfriend was over and caught him... he was eating happily in the garage. whew!

here we go again

i've seriously been meaning to post here but i keep not having time! i'm seriously serious! i keep starting this post and then stopping and then when i come back, everything is too old to care about and i must restart. so here we go again...

oh man, i'm so tired! i thought i would be a good girl and start working on my homework early this week so that i'm not always waiting til wednesday morning and working at work and trying to get it done before the midnight deadline (& then i post the wrong files like i did last week! doh!). i goofed around a bit, packed a bit and "organized" my packing (read: moved stuff around without accomplishing anything really but feeling busy - shuffle! staple!). then at 12:30am i was ready to go to bed and i remembered i had mail that i forgot to look at, which included a letter from my friend juanjo in spain! of course, then i felt like writing back although around 2am i'm not sure if my spanish was making sense or what i was writing so i went to bed.

.... [elapse of time]

so now it's like hours later than when i started this post. and i've lost my train of thought. all i know is i'm still tired. coffee perked me up a bit this morning. i can't wait to have a glass or two of wine after work. that will perk me up definitely.

my uncle on tv - hometown heroes on directv channel 101

my uncle called me today and told me to set my dvr for sunday night at 9pm, channel 101 on directv because he was going to be on. a show called "hometown heroes" hosted by joan lunden. he said "they" (which i took to mean the school he works for) are on in the second 30 minutes of the show.

for some reason i didn't make the connection that he was the hometown hero... i thought it was the school. but when i found the site describing the 1st episode it says:

A Brighter Future (Watts, CA). Larry Scott, after retiring from a career in corporate real estate, decided to make a difference in education. After becoming Director of Corporate Recruitment at Verbum Dei High School in Watts, the students there now enjoy a remarkable 100% graduation rate.

todo esta tan gris

it's an overcast cold day here in LA. the weekend i housesit at a house with a dope pool... it's freezing cold! seriously! i put my feet in thinking i could warm up to it yesterday when the sun actually was out and the water was as cold as it was in nor cal when sugi and i bought wetsuits just to go in the water! if only i had my wetsuit yesterday! haha.

like i said, i am housesitting for 3 cats and one of them follows me around like a dog. she reminds me so much of my cat muddy, and i guess rightly so because this cat is a purebred siamese and muddy's mom was siamese. i want to pet them, but then i remember what my allergist said and i shouldn't pet them. or at least pet them then wash my hands immediately and do not touch my face under any circumstances, but i always forget. like i should leave now to walk to meet lalatxu (she's at yoga), and when i go, i'll want to pet sacha to say goodbye but i won't wash my hands because then i'd have to walk to the bathroom and that's not on the way out, and passing sacha again, i'd have to pet her. vicious circle. cats. they are just so cute. not the 3rd cat though who pees in the house because she won't use the litterbox at all. and she hates me. probably because she knows i hate her for peeing in the house. another vicious circle. haha.

so i'm off with my allergies and all. enjoy your saturday afternoon! besos!

pero que dices!

my uncle is so smoking crack today. he doesn't want to spend money to hire another assistant and so we're always having problems. right now a new patient is waiting patiently for the assistant to be free to take her xrays. my uncle tells me to put her in and i'm like "can ana take the xrays now?" and he goes "no but you can chart the fillings" and i'm like "she needs an FMX" and he goes "well you can look in her mouth" - huh? i'm not the dentist dude. i'm not going to put her in and start examining her. i'm not qualified in any way! bloody hell!

ah! the weekend begins!

ah, finally made it through today! it was the longest slowest most boring day at work in a long while! i got to blaze out at 5:30pm though. goodness gracias my oh my!

so now i'm at home getting ready to begin my big housesitting bonanza. i go down to manhattan beach tomorrow and my sister and her husband will be driving down there from paso after work. then saturday early i will leave with my sister's car and head on up to paso, stopping first at my house to collect all of my laundry (gotta take advantage!) and then i'll stop at sugi's to drop off a lil something something i got her, b.a. and the girls for easter! :)

sugi was out of control and sent me eagle vs shark and the flight of the conchords dvds!!!! i'll def be taking that to my sister's... that plus psych! hahahaha.

my sister said they bought beer, wine and food for me too! oh my!

i'll drive back sunday night late... so the cats aren't alone as long as possible. then i'll keep the car til monday night, drive down to my parents and either catch a ride with loco d to work tuesday morning, or take the metro back monday night. we'll see.

then next weekend i'm housesitting for my mom's friends til april 8th! somehow i want to take my bike... i guess i could ride it or bus it over... hmmm.

hope everyone has a great friday and great weekend! besitos!

no country for godless women and gay men

ah, tuesday family dinners. normally it's me, my parents, my (gay) uncle, my great-aunt peg and her two friends, dolores and roberta. tonight (like the other crazy night previously posted) my uncle loco d came (eek) and so did his wife (fine just fine). tonight we all got along... but i was seated on the less controversial (or more cordial/polite) side of the table, so who knows what i missed.

my (gay) uncle was driving me home and mentioned how much my loco d loves our family but will never be able to accept a gay, like my dad who has always loved him regardless, and he's so tired of being "the gay" in the family. and i said well, according to loco d, my sister and i are godless and doomed, so i guess we three are all looking at a hot eternity of damnation in his eyes... let's just chalk it up to him "loving" us but not knowing how to love us, and pretty much ignore anything he says.

[intermission.... minutes, almost an hour... goes by]

i had a whole stream of brilliant thoughts, but then i had a phone call from my mom and well, now i'm not sure where i was going. at all.

(side note not having anything to do with anything: i just got a book in the mail today: violence in war and peace: an anthology. can i just say... super stoked! not as much as when sugi and i watch psych, but close.)

foolish sucka

jimmy's f*cking ben affleck

a brilliant mind (that's me!)

so i'm on facebook and add random apps that do random things and one was it is a quiz to find out what singer you are... so i turned out to be bjork:

"You're a bit crazy. People often don't know what you mean, and sometimes it's like you're a bit retarded, but that's because they don't get you. But that is because you're actually a genius..."

ah yes, that's it. hahahahahaha. :D