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[08 Nov 2009|03:35pm] |
[8] Carrie Underwood
[6] AnnaLynne McCord
[6] Jessica Stroup/Shenae Grimes
[4] Rob Estes/Lori Loughlin
[3] Ashley Tisdale
[4] Vanessa Hudgens
  
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| Portrait Magazine |
[04 Nov 2009|11:24pm] |
Portrait Magazine's Top 30 Under 30 Poll is up and Carrie Underwood needs votes! http://www.portraitmagazine.net
Carrie can be nominated in several categories in the Portrait Choice Award Nominations, open right now!
Please twitter the link and let more people know!
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| "This Is It" -- Michael Jackson |
[04 Nov 2009|11:24am] |
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Oh man, been pretty busy lately. I’ve been getting up to my alarm clock, and everytime it goes off I freak out and for the first 30 seconds all I can manage to think is “how late for work am I”, isn’t that awful? Note to self, get more sleep. Its been a few days, yesterday was my switch day for work because I worked on Sunday, and I went to the dentist, isn’t that a fabulous day off? It didn’t go too badly. They quoted me 77 for the emergency part of the visit then between 110-180 for the actual filling to be replaced. When I got to the chair, after having x-rays which were included in the emergency part, I asked my dentist if it would be possible to do a temporary, so that I could come back in January when my insurance starts over and then she could put the filling back in. She kinda looked at me and I said I’m paying out of pocket and I figured that’d be the cheapest way to go, to which she asked how much could I pay, was 140 too much? And I said no, 140 was okay, and she mentioned that if I were to come back in January that I’d have to pay the copay and then blah blah blah, and she’s right, so I agreed to 140 and my tooth is fixed, with a LOT of bleeding because she had to put that ring thing around my tooth to put the filling in, its on the back side of an upper tooth and my poor gum is all gouged and unhappy. But, I got it done on the cheap, and I’m feeling pretty good about it, PLUS my tooth is fixed ^_^ Also, yesterday, my friend Toya and I went for a half hour walk, which was pretty good, it means I get to see her and I get my exercise in. I have to look up volunteer opportunities so that we can pick one to get going to. I think I’m going to use Radio Milwaukee’s list from the ones they mentioned over the past few months but they’ll also be coming up with a list of 50 more over the next two months. So, lots to choose from in the area. And also, yesterday on my day off, I raked the backyard, a whole hour and I only got one half of the yard done. And finally, after I was done with that my Aunt, her friend Rhonda and her two kids and myself, we all went to see “This Is It” the Michael Jackson movie. I’ve never been a HUGE huge fan of his, but this… made me so incredibly sad that he passed. This concert would have been simply amazing. He was amazingly talented, watching the dancers, and listening to MJ get the music just right and I just kept thinking over and over “how GOOD does a person have to be to play in concert with him? Or to be one of his dancers?” I can’t even imagine. I do recommend that movie to EVERYONE. Today, after my 9am walk with Toya, I came home, cleaned the bathroom and decided while I was in the middle of that that I should wash walls. I wasn’t quite ready for it and the picture slid off the wall, but I broke its fall with my foot, otherwise I think there’d be glass all over the tile floor, only one problem… huge bruise on my foot. Owe. That should prove interesting over the next couple of days. It didn’t seem to bother me as I moved on to washing the walls in the living room… I only hope I didn’t put too much bleach in my water. We’ll find out!
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| Play On |
[03 Nov 2009|09:23pm] |
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Don't forget to get out and buy Carrie's new CD Play On, which was released today. It includes a fantastic mix of songs, including Cowboy Casanova, Mama's Song, and Temporary Home. As we'd expect, her voice just soars. If you enjoyed Carnival Ride and Some Hearts, you'll love Play On.
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| closing out the weekend with thoughts |
[02 Nov 2009|05:25am] |
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So the weekend is done, I worked again. But in all hindsight I’m glad its over. On Saturday when I got to work I felt like nothing had been done the night before. There were edits in the bins, there were 229 documents in the Reconciler, the list of jobs that were sent out the day before hadn’t been finished up. I had a ton of weird phone calls from transcriptionists too. Sunday was a bit easier. There were less things to do because I cleaned up a lot of it, but then there was the mail to get to on Sunday and I still didn’t get through all of the edits. I didn’t putz around at all this weekend, too busy staring at the screen getting things done. Saturday night my Mom’s friend threw her 60th birthday party. I was not told until the day before but it was a costume party. Thanks Mom. Anyway, I went in semi costume as a classy cowgirl with my pearls and plaid shirt. I’d have totally gone out and gotten a cowboy hat and maybe some rope to carry around, but alas, I didn’t have time. The party was really awesome, there were two people playing wind instruments in the living room that reminded me of 1920’s music, don’t ask my why then, but that’s the vibe I got. There were quite a few people dressed up too! And, I swear, I'm going to throw parties like this for my big birthdays, 30, 35, 40, 45, so on and so forth til 90, I think at 90 I might have to let them go a little bit :) Beyond working on Sunday I was supposed to go to a birthday party in Burlington, but it was like half cancelled so I didn’t go. I took a nap on my Mom’s couch, I had no desire to watch the Packer Game… Brett Favre in all his glory, but let’s not go there. I had dinner with my mom, we watched some TV and then I went down to Ma’s to play cards with Ben. I lead quite the exciting life. Here I am, at home. I created a new community on LJ JournalSwaps, check it out. We’re going to do a round robin with journals, hopefully the turn out is good, hopefully people send things on like they’re supposed to. I’m excited and nervous about this community. Also, semi hoping that the dentist calls tomorrow to see when I can get in to have my filling replaced, maybe they’ll do it on the cheap? I mean, for not a lot of money since fillings don’t generally fall out when one flosses as they are expected to. I will admit to not having flossed since that incident as I don’t know if the tooth is all weird now, or what to expect. Also, at about 4am this morning I realised that I have no desire to go to bed, because I’ll be alone. I’m going to bed alone, again tonight, like I have every night since forever. Ugh. Add another “also” to this post, I just realised… I have a lunch date at 11am… I need to get to bed!
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| Hello Flist, have I got a proposition for you! |
[31 Oct 2009|09:19pm] |
journal swap
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fragilephoenix, over in a group I belong to called "Penpals" had a great idea, but I'd like to do it and I'd like to modify it a bit.
There are two ideas I'm building off: one, is to send a journal that gets mailed to a person and the other person gets to keep it; two is a community I used to be in here at LJ, SendaJournal, which is now defunked. I'd like to combine the two ideas.
I would like to have a few different people that I swap journals with, but I'd rather it be a circle journal so to speak. Meaning that I write in it and mail it off and then they write in it and mail it back and then I write in it and mail it to them and back and forth until its full. The sendajournal portion comes in that I'm thinking it would be neat if they were themed journals. I'd love one that's "A Day in the Life" or one that's "Dreams" and by dreams it could be things you dream of being or the dreams you have while sleeping, or awake for that matter. And I think the third I'd love to have is one that is "Secret" themed.
It could work that everyone who signs up gets the journal and we'd all start a journal and send it around, or it could work that the journal stays between two people.
Let me know what you think.
Alright... I created a community, I'm both excited and nervous...
http://community.livejournal.com/journalswaps/
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| Teeth |
[31 Oct 2009|06:00am] |
Today... as I was performing my morning teeth ritual where I brush, listerine, floss and then ACT, in the middle of flossing, I flossed out a filling. ugh.
I owe the dentist money, I am paying them money, but I don't know if they'll take me and if they do as an emergency, will they make me pay in full first? If so, I can't afford to go. :( Luckily, for the moment it doesn't hurt, but I do get the feeling that I should probably not eat hard or crunchy items for a while.
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| Regular posting?! |
[29 Oct 2009|01:14am] |
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What's going on, you ask.
Well, the answer is not much. Things are what they are.
My employer is really quite large and recently I've done some checking around to see what positions might be open where... also, to see if a second job is a possibility, I've got a ton of time during the day, so if I work instead of sleeping til 2, it'd probably be healthier to be on a day schedule again. Anyway, I spoke to a woman who does medical group staffing yesterday morning/noon or so. The job sounds REALLY awesome, but its part time. Unfortunately it’s not a part time I can work with. The hours vary from 7am to 5pm, or some business like that. Anyway, it’s not something I think I can pursue while keeping my current job, or even having another job paired with it. I guess I’ll have to keep looking. I really would have been good at this position. Went to work early today, we had our monthly meeting. Today the Director of our department came in to talk to us. She told us about a bunch of changes that are going to take place over the next 7 or 8 months, followed by a complete overhaul of half of the system in the next year and a half to two years. It seems like there will be work enough for us to do, though I don’t really know what lies ahead. I brought cupcakes to work today. I made them last night, white cake mix, with yellow and red food dye to make them orange (though they really came out kind of… squash coloured) and then I put on cream cheese frosting. Oh, and some of them were pumpkin shaped, most were regular shaped. On top of the cream cheese frosting I decorated with little spiders in black frosting, and jack-o-lantern faces in orange frosting. And candy corn with the orange frosting. I brought them to the meeting. I don’t know why I bothered because I brought 14 and I left with 10. :/ I guess I should find something else to put my creative energy towards. After work, as is the norm, I picked up Ben and we went and played cards. I’m still winning, though not by too much at this point. We’re round about the half way mark. 49,000 points for me. Woo! I’m pretty ruthless when I play cards. Today I showed him my cards because he didn’t believe me. I have another $2.75 to put towards my savings for trips. I have put my passport right next to my piggy bank and I’m treating all singles like they’re change. I should really treat 5’s like their change too. I miss them less. I’m hoping to be able to afford to go to both Greece and Miami, although, if Greece doesn’t work out (as my cousin might be going to France) it’ll be okay. I have to finish up my application for school in London. I’m waiting for my teacher’s letter of reference to get here and then I’m done. I’m nervous about it. I keep wondering if this is the right thing to do, but its not like there’s much here I should be doing. I don’t have a significant other to hold me here. And my friends, well things are a little off right now. I feel like those that I’m close to, or was close to, are too busy right now. And I’m feeling less like the floating boat in a lake with no ripples and more like, this castaway person just curled up in the corner, in the fetal position afraid. Jeff did a drawing in charcoal a while back, probably in high school for all I know, and that image is seared into my brain, and that’s how I feel. And to end more positively… I played piano for the second day in a row. I’m really, really unpracticed now. I looked at some of the easy classical stuff I used to play. HA! I guess, while we’re looking at the glass being half full, all of this typing means my fingers are still relatively strong.
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| Travelling... |
[27 Oct 2009|02:03pm] |
So it looks like I might be going abroad in the early months of next year. By the time June rolls around, I won't have any PTO again. Eh.
Greece or Switzerland, must do work! Research is necessary. So is a part time job lol.
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| Sleep |
[27 Oct 2009|11:14am] |
I floated in and out of consciousness last night/this morning as I attempted to fall asleep. And I was laying here thinking about how I really don't have an opinion on anything anymore. Part of it is that I'm so completely uninformed, about everything. I don't watch tv, so I can't talk about what show is hilarious or sucks. I know nothing about music, which takes out a lot of conversation with a lot of people I know. I don't have a child, so I can't talk about that experience.
And also. I don't open up and talk because I'm too afraid to offend people. Why is that? I mean, people that I consider close friends. So, if they're close friends... what's my problem?
Off to work soon, not looking forward to it. Does everyone end up disliking their job?
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