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i am blogging from the hamptons--and will be back home tomorrow evening. when i left a few days ago--the swine flu news was "new" and now it's become my mainstay from every channel i watch. i'm not scared of going home to good ole brooklyn. but people here don't even talk about it.
i ordered 60 n-95 respirator masks online and they should arrive mid-next week. i will probably hit the cvs here in southampton before i head home tomorrow as well. i don't care how dorky i look--i will be wearing one while riding the subways! besides, my roommate was coughing and hacking the night before i left--i might want to wear one around the house too!
i've always carried around hand sanitizer so that was nothing new, but i have stocked up as well. i use this one:
i also take the new chapter organics "every woman's one daily" and the new chapter organics "immunity take care." i think i've done pretty much all i can do to prevent--so now, whatever happens, happens!
although i really should get on that living will thing. perhaps i'm getting paranoid, but i'm coughing slightly and i have a slight headache. we'll see!
THANK GOD FOR AMERICAN IDOL AND ADAM LAMBERT! way to keep my spirits up. where others have failed you have come through.
i feel like i should do a lot of things towards securing a more stable future for myself. as if the economy isn't enough of a worry there's now swine flu. i was so busy glaring at the pigeons flying around me that i overlooked george clooney's former pet.
damn it.
i am going out and buying myself one of those hospital masks in the next couple of days. my roommate tripped in coughing something fierce yesterday night and i left this morning for my 3 day trek to the hamptons. so hopefully when i get back she isn't a mess all over the place and at least quarantines herself in her room a little. so i think sometime in the next few weeks i'm going to create a living will sort of thing. i actually now have assets to protect--imagine that!
anyhow, looking forward to a few movies. as intelligent as i am, i'm not so pretentious as to claim to only watch foreign flicks or whatever. i LOVE summer blockbusters. lovem--the more action, the better. hey, i was raised on foreign kung fu flicks!
--star trek
--terminator salvation
--wolverine
--harry potter and the half blood prince
--up
--angels and demons
--transformers revenge of the fallen
so i am basically going to be spending my entire summer at the theatre--or at least--the VERY HOT days. there's usually 3 times where there are 3 day stretches of interminably hot i-want-to-shoot-myself-and-everyone-else weather here in nyc.
well. in the doing everything i wanted to do sort of way!
friday: went to watch monsters vs aliens in 3d. the movie had stephen colbert AND hugh laurie in it--and still stunk...BUT the 3d aspect was INCREDIBLE. so i recommend going to watch it just for that! they just don't make quality flicks like finding nemo and stuff anymore.
saturday: rearranged my room for "summer"--meaning i moved my bed from the window/fire escape so that i can get better access to it and didn't do much else!
sunday: i've been walking around EVERYWHERE...or at least what seems like it. went from union square to midtown to chelsea to lower east side to greenwich. had spanish tapas at a place called "pia tol" (the waiters were cute but the food stunk for the average/high price of tapas. euzkadi was better and euzkadi wasn't INCREDIBLE. best places were still the 2 places in boston. had some gelato...wasn't great either actually. oh well.
but i'm feeling good and maybe i'm acclimating a little to the weather here--it was in the 90s and i wasn't feeling too badly so yay!
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advice section:
question: how do you stay mad at someone who deserves you to be mad at them even when you no longer feel it and just want to be on the happy side again?
answer: remember the pain and hope they either mess up again--or if you like them--hope they are smart enough to make it up to you sooner rather than later!
and yet something out there is pissing me off to no end.
but here are the things i get to look forward to!
1. going home tomorrow after a week away!
2. dinner and a movie or a free concert tomorrow night
3. picking up my GLASSES!!!! :))))) tomorrow night
4. the end of a goal cycle this month which means a good chunk of money by mid-may...which comes just in time for...
5. angelika coming to visit from the 22nd of may to the 31st!!!!!!
not looking forward to:
1. hamptons on monday
2. short feeling weekends
3. nyc summers
4. diets that need to happen
5. being more aggressive with my savings and really trying the suze orman "live on half your income" diet. but i'm determined to really do this. and that's hard to do living here in nyc!
so hungover.
we definitely overcooked for our lao new year's dinner party though.
a TON of larb gai
a TON of beeng gai
a TON of mieng
a TON of tum maak hoong
a TON of gang naw mai
a TON of beer lao
i wish i had 5 stomachs so that i could eat as much as i want and not gain weight in just 1 body.
week in jersey tomorrow and i got half of my glasses. i went in for my checkup last friday and the prescription sunglasses were ready--but the regular prescription glasses were not. sad.
i am testing out new contacts as well because the other ones were not very comfortable against my eyes.
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question:
what should i do if i think my boyfriend is cheating on me?
answer:
hire a private eye and gas him out. if he is, use the key you have to his apartment, let yourself in while he's asleep one night, and tie him up as quick as possible. then grab that 2 liter bottle of water and use it to spit at his face. inbetween spitting tell him off or do anything verbal to make yourself feel better. after you leave, leave the key under the floormat and call one of his friends to let them know he needs to be untied. move on and don't tell the next guy you date this story until you're married.
it's going to sound totally stupid, but i'm SO EXCITED because i finally stepped up to the plate...and MADE AN EYE APPOINTMENT. it's been LONG overdue. i broke my glasses and then lost them about 8 months ago and have been wearing my LAST pair of monthly contact lenses for A YEAR NOW. it's stupid i know. because honestly it's not like i didn't have the money or whatnot...i just couldn't be bothered until now. so my own fault. but i'm stoked. totally stoked. i'm so freakin excited. so tomorrow i am headed to pearle vision and there is a bogo going on for glasses! so if i lose or break one--i will have an extra pair (of equal or lesser value) as backup. TOTALLY STOKED.
i'm also happy for other reasons. i do wish i could have gone to san francisco though.
i am hoping to catch some movies this weekend as well...
still haven't seen:
--monsters vs aliens
--i love you man
--duplicity
--dragonball evolution (comes out tomorrow)
--knowing
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i have also decided to start a little blurb that poses as advice giving--but really is more for my own amusement--though the advice given will really be what i believe! they will hopefully be short answers to perhaps complicated issues. the issues might range from the obscure to mundane--afterall, even obscure problems deserve answers.
for example:
question: i'm a guy and i just found out that the person i fell in love with is actually a dude. does that mean i'm gay?
answer: maybe dude. have sex to find out and let me know.
there were a few times i thought they might launch a comeback of near epic proportions...but they didn't. and i never wanted to be that person that combines something serious with entertainment (i've always been that person that hated "moral of the story" in a freakin comedy)...but i really was hoping michigan state would pull that upset over unc in yesterday's national title game. all because that region has had economic trouble even before the rest of the world. it's like one long, neverending misery story. and it's not like unc isn't a freakin institution when it comes to basketball already! i mean--between them, duke and uconn, hell. even uconn is undoubtedly 3rd in that game (with regards to the hallowed traditions). anyhow.
i hope this economy rights itself abit faster than reality tells me.
i think i had another oblivious blonde moment today. i feel bad for all the other retards--i bring the bracket down.
i am lovin this season of american idol...i have my favorites--but i swear to god that adam lambert is just freakin incredible. gay as hell--but the talent...i mean...people will kill me for this--but the range on that dude? flippin insane. i can't think of a guy with more range. it's insane. just insane. i like anoop and gokey too. paula is flippin mad as a rocking chair. she seems like an incredibly nice lady--but she's a freakin nutter. if i was sitting next to her i think i'd be laughing the entire freakin show. kudos to the other judges for being able to tune that out. i mean wow.
was really good! i think i'm prone to laughter anyways but it was pretty good--3 white guys doing their thing--a tad raunchy but otherwise good. i am ashamed to say i didn't bother listening to their names...brian something, forgot the middle guy's name, and pj something. i think. i could be way off and just making shit up--entirely possible. first guy was pretty hot looking too--come to think of it--they all weren't so bad.
an overnight trip tomorrow that i am unexpectedly making--and still a 10% chance that i'm headed to san fran this weekend. but i'm just not sure yet. i know i shouldn't. i'm not entirely well yet and i'm sure that if i went--i'll go back to being sick. plus it's about time that i really do go for an eye exam--which i am hoping to do this weekend!
is it silly to be this excited about being a platinum member for a hotel chain? cause i gotta tell you, i got the new card today and i'm pretty darn stoked!
the good news:
1. i am now a PLATINUM hyatt member. that's right. PLATINUM. haha. next and last will be diamond--which should happen in a few months actually...
2. i am home for 2 weeks before starting my monthly treks again!
3. i am starting to get better--now i sound like i've been crying all the time--but at least not like a crotchety old man...
4. comedy show on sunday!
5. 1st annual lao new year's dinner party on the 18th!
the bad news:
1. still sick regardless.
2. am not going to san fran because of said sickness.
3. i'm really tired lately--probably because of the sickness.
4. some people i know just...don't appreciate the life they have, the life they've created, and whatever else. and it's a bit of a shame, really. the grass is always greener on the other side. i'm very happy with my life right now--definitely more than not--and after the life i've lead in the past--this has been such an incredible boon. but i just feel like people should wise up, stop acting stupid and start acting their age and situation in life.
just some news:
i love ellen degeneres. love her show--when i get the rare opportunity to catch it. but she does this segment--where she gives like...i think it's 2k to people that write in that are in need. and while i find that commendable...it KILLS me that the past few times i've seen this happen--they were to people i DO NOT think deserve/need this money more than others.
the first one was this woman who lived in a huge spanish style house and i thought to myself...ehhhhh. at least you have a roof over your head--a rather nice looking one at that. and she got a car as well. well, if she can't afford her house--why give her a car? how is that going to help?
the second was some mortuary worker who...get this...PAWNED the title to her car to THROW HER DAUGHTER A BIRTHDAY PARTY. seriously. can we get some perspective? some common sense? is your daughter a fuckin deity? i'm sorry but if you're that stupid you SHOULDN'T BE REWARDED. societal values really need to be evaluated. oh. and she had a 25k student loan to pay off. BOOHOO. anyone who has been to school and didn't come from a trust fund family has one of those!!! and that's a freakin MINIMUM amount.
argh.
just argh.
i also take the new chapter organics "every woman's one daily" and the new chapter organics "immunity take care." i think i've done pretty much all i can do to prevent--so now, whatever happens, happens!
