| SERVE genuflect 7-3-08 (backdated though still relevant) |
[30 Jun 2008|11:53pm] |
Ok, so given how extremely tired I am and overly tired I should be, I have successfully completed the Alpha Phi Omega "serve" workshop a different person, making myself a LEADS all star (see below for the LEADS breakout). LEADS is a five step program offered by Alpha Phi Omega, over the course of 45 hours or so-all broken up into however you wish (however the L (Launch being the first and foremost) and over five different workshops (varied in length). The steps include:
L: Launch: Launching development
E: Explore: exploring leadership strengths/potentials
A: Achieve: Achieving success through teams
D: Discover: Discovering personal strengths and success skills
S: SERVE: Serving the Fraternity by using management skills in your chapter (and for me, the alumni association, and even in my personal life)
Granted, all of these have helped me develop as a person, though I do feel as if I may be able to benefit from this one right now, and again, since I am at a different point in life from when I was when I started over a year ago. I guess it is all because we can all grow somehow. I may go back and re-do a few, just to try and grow yet again and take something else away from the experience.
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| 1:01 central time 7-3-08 |
[03 Jul 2008|01:01pm] |
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Don't ask!
July 3rd or 4th: The accretion patterns have placed the most data behind the following aspect/attribute sets: [packing house/meat processing], [fumigation], [post office/mailings/communications], [legal matters/legal status], [health resources], [social security], [temperatures (sub set [frozen])], and [fish/fisheries/food sources from oceans].
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| Coffee.. |
[03 Jul 2008|02:52am] |
Girl at coffee shop pisses me off this morning! I told her my coffee was to sweet and she looks at me like so... you want me to make it over are you crazy! But she says what do you want me to do make the whole thing over and I said no just add more coffee or something so she takes my coffee back fixes it and hands it back with a snarl, bitch! Oh and then she says well next time ask for 1/2 a shot of flavor and I told her I come here everyday and I always get the same thing and its never to sweet so go figure! That was the first time I had come in on her shift I guess. I know big deal ! But its people like her that make me crazy! I mean big deal its to sweet, I paid almost 3 dollars for it so fucking fix it and smile while you do it is that so much to ask for? Damn its your job! Not mine. When I'm at work I do it with a smile so, so should you! Haha! I'm a redhead bitch! I know.
haha! I found that on my journal..because you know I downloaded the whole damn thing and now I can search it... it's so bad ass!!!! But anyway I wrote that on July/04/2001 11:01:00 so 7 years ago this week and it cracked me up. I seemed to have had the same problem back then as I do now with not sleeping..almost every post I talk about how I didn't sleep. Lame..and here I am 2008 it's 2:51 am and I work at 7am! Oh yah!
"The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action."
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| Wow! |
[03 Jul 2008|02:32am] |
On August 26, 2007, Nick Bolled (Nick Hogan) was racing his yellow Toyota Supra in the middle of downtown Clearwater, FL when he lost control and struck a median. The car then flipped, hitting a palm tree with its backend. Nick Hogan (Bollea) escaped with minor injuries, but his passenger, 23 year old Marine and Iraqi war veteran, John J. Graziano, suffered massive head injuries and has remained in a coma ever since.
How did anyone walk out of this car accident??
More pictures can be found here..
I know this is old news but if your like me and you've never seen the pictures of the car....there you go
Now I guess the hogans are divorced and the daughter doesn't talk to her parents anymore and the mom is dating one of the daughters 19 year old friends or something...uh..well that's almost like what i think I heard on the radio at least.
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| ljArchive - now you can download your live journal! |
[03 Jul 2008|12:57am] |
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 Ok this is cool folks..if you always wanted to backup or download your entire live journal but you never knew how or you knew how but your like me didn't want to sit there and use the LJ export tool which only allows you to download one month at a time..I have been writing in my journal for 7 years so that would take me hours.
 What is ljArchive? It's a Windows-only exporter for LiveJournal.
ljArchive is a tool for downloading, browsing, and analyzing journal entries and comments from LiveJournal (or LiveJournal clones). ljArchive is currently available for Windows, and may soon be coming to gtk/Linux. ljArchive allows you to do the following to your journal:- Download and navigate a synchronized, local archive of your journal or community.
- Search through your journal for keywords, and browse through search results immediately.
- Export your journal into various formats, such as XML, HTML, PDF (in conjuction with LJBook), and MIDI (yes, MIDI!).
Plus you can..
Run custom plugins on your journal. ljArchive comes with the following plugins:
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You can also use it to export your entire journal to an .xml file and import it into a wordpress blog!
 Download ljArchive
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| Celebrity Photoshop and body image in my 30’s |
[01 Jul 2008|02:32am] |
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Women in our society are constantly trying to live up to a level of beauty that is sold to them through fashion mags, TV and movies..what we all might not realize is how much of that beauty is a computer generated.
Fantasy women that real women could never measure up too.
I think these pictures are an eye opener and goes to show just how incredibly fooled we all are by the media. We've been bamboozled! Don't get me wrong I think we all like to look at beautiful people but it's also nice to know we're not so bad after all too..that everyone has their faults and no one is picture perfect.
What's been hard for me is just getting older.. not being in my twenties anymore...and when I turned 35 whoa I really started to feel old. I want to see the beauty in myself but its not always easy because I do notice those little smile lines and imperfections that come with natural aging..I see them everyday and it does get me depressed.
I'm really grateful for Roy because he's always telling me "Your so beautiful" which usually makes me feel better but then again deep down inside I'm also always thinking to myself.. he's just saying that because he loves me.. so he can't win for losing. Haha!
I think I struggle with the same thing a lot of other women...body image and lack of self esteem. It's something I want to work on and something I want to get over.
If the media were to ban Photoshop retouches..could you just imagine? Women might actually start to feel better about themselves when we all begin to realize that our favorite stars have the same smile lines that we do..would we admire them more or less?
more before and after pictures
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| Crap..it's Monday |
[30 Jun 2008|07:41am] |
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Designed a new layout for my journal last night..it's pretty cool..I was sick of my old one. Now I'm off to work. I'm so freaking beat plus I don't love Mondays so much.
I wasn't feeling good yesterday like every time I stood up I'd get this huge head rush and I thought I was gonna pass out a couple times and I felt sick to my stomach and no I'm not preggers don't even go there. Kinda scared me the head rushes though. Anyway I'm sure I'll be fine it was probably just the heat.
I'm waiting for Chris my friend from work to come pick me up .. because we car pool and I get paid today so that makes up for the fact that it's Monday right?
Hope you all have a good day!!
So what do ya think...about me going into my office and busting a wild stripper move and be like.."I'm here and I LOVE MONDAYS!!! (inspiration graphic above)
do you think they'd fire me??
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| Sigur Ros |
[29 Jun 2008|02:21pm] |
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'Med sud i eyrum vis spilum endalaust' -Sigur Ros |
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One more reason I'm retiring in Iceland:
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[28 Jun 2008|12:23am] |
Ever lose over $30,000 because of someone else's mistake? That was MY day today.
T h i r t y - t h o u s a n d - d o l l a r s .
Cash money.
Too spent to explain...
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| Cunnilingus and psychiatry... |
[24 Jun 2008|11:57pm] |
I may have been the last person on earth to watch the Sopranos, but I just finished season one. Which included, the best line ever.
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[23 Jun 2008|11:03pm] |
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A rant on George Carlin:
A comedic genius. You will surely be missed. I have @ least 75-90% of your albums, and have watched (live) or rented your 14 HBO specials, and you are definitely one funny motherf****r (yes, I am editing, but is is one of your seven words that CANNOT be said on TV, circa 1972). I truly wished I could have seen you live as I always wanted, and not have put it off. You are up there with the likes of Richard Prior and Sam Kinnison. I listened to an interview you gave today back like 10 years ago and how you mentioned your live concert in Detroit. I bless you for getting rid of the coke to only be brought up on public disturbance charges (yes, ok, it is sick I said that, but it IS George Carlin, so go screw).
When I heard he died this morning, I was shocked. He was one funny M'fer. I remember first watching him on HBO, the night before the HSPT (a standardized test we had to take in Grade 8 here in the US-at that time it was 1990-1991) and my mother yelling at me to go to bed. To be honest, most of his stand up could be relevant today, mainly since that skit was during the first gulf war, and flash forward to today. Same shit was relevant; though I also noticed some of his stuff from the 60's was also relevant given the connection between the between Vietnam and Iraq. I even remember him saying something from the Vietnam area, which could be relevant today. Funny, and cutting edge shit.
Alright. Time for bed.
LATE!
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| Amy leaves Rehab - with emphysema |
[23 Jun 2008|05:14pm] |
Amy WInehouse was spotted out in London on Monday morning (June 23) after leaving her rehab center for the day. The singer who was spotted picking up a pack of cigarettes before heading into some stores, is reportedly going to be heaving to Glastonbury to perform for Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
Her dad recently spoke to the press about Amy’s medical problems, he said “With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 percent lung capacity.
“When we got to the hospital a room was ready. Several doctors came in and checked to make sure she didn’t need any emergency treatment. They put her on a drip straight away because she was dehydrated. She said, ‘Don’t worry about me, dad. I know I’ve got to stop taking drugs now.’”
“She’s got emphysema. It’s in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.”
MORE PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP
Posted by: flawedhollywood in Amy Winehouse, Music
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| Smarsh Ranked Second - Oregon's Fastest-Growing |
[23 Jun 2008|12:14pm] |
I forgot to post about this last week..Smarsh recieved an award! No. 2 among 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Oregon by Portland Business Journal We ranked No. 2 out of the top 100! Our revenue grew by 330.71% from 2005-2007. So yeah that was pretty exciting.
I'm proud to be a Smarshian!
Celebrating the Win! The owner is Steve Marsh and he's in the middle with his pretty wife holding the award. Then the rest of the Smarsh gang is all there..I didn't get to go because Olivia had a fever. :( I was so bummed.
My Smarshian friend Chris who also used to work at Dotster with me. Before we were converted.
( more pictures )
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[22 Jun 2008|11:40pm] |
I know I need to get to bed, but I found a show on HGTV in the US called "Sleep on It." A couple debating between two homes get a chance to tour two (featured) homes they like and sleep in one of them for a night. To be honest, it is a great thing for the people SELLING the house than those buying it in my opinion, only because it gives your house a national view on a national cable tv network. Who can ask for anything else. Anyway, I am kinda hooked now on this show. It seems cool.
That is all.
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In case you care, someone leaked the Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy album and now it's all over YouTube.
Was it worth the 14 year wait?
...nope.
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[21 Jun 2008|03:12pm] |
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I want to upload a ring tone from itunes but apparently it is only for an iphone. Can I still download it, e-mail it to my phone number (from my home e-mail) and then use it as a ring tone? Anyone know?
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| About last night |
[21 Jun 2008|07:46am] |
Here are some pics of my Dotster friends at an 80's theme party that I went to last night..it was pretty fun. I hate the 80's though..it was a horrible decade in fashion. I got a little tipsy and we all danced to sipping on some siszurp
( more pictures for those of you who actually care.. )
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