Archive for August, 2007
August 31, 2007 at 9:06 pm · Filed under sponsored
Back in the day when I first got into the internet, I was a chatter. Not just that, but I was a website chatroom chatter. Yeah. That was when geocities was still around and its main source was the different chatrooms. Does anyone remember Tokyo Room? That was where I hung out. That was really old school, wasn’t it? Heh.
Now, the hip, new generation has a better, bigger version of free chat rooms. It simply isn’t enough just to chat anymore… it’s much cooler now to also do other things while chatting. For those of you who are still interested in the good ol’ days of regular chat rooms, you can now look forward to chatrooms that have nifty options like blogging, and interest clubs in the chat rooms. This is the great improvement from “geoshitties” because the interface looks better, it’s easier to work around the site, and it’s easier to use. It’s more user-friendly and the chat rooms aren’t actually confusing. Technology at its very best, people. Go meet new people while not having to wrack your brain on how to do it at the same time. It’s just that simple. I’ve met some really great people through chat rooms from way back when. A couple of them I still talk to and still chat with over AIM and other types of private instant messenger programs. You may get lucky too — like me, you may find some friends that will stick with you for years and years (going on about 10 years now for me and my chat room buddies).
August 31, 2007 at 9:25 am · Filed under daily
Slow Fridays are just my taste. I rolled out of bed around 8am. Dave had already left for work approximately 1.5 hours ago, and has been there since 7am. Since then, I’ve been cruisin’ the internet, writing in my blogs, checking my email, blowing my nose (about a bazillion times — mornings are bad for my allergies!), and yawning repeatedly. I’m not a coffee person, so mornings sometimes go slower for me than most because I don’t take any supplements to wake me up. I’m thinking about noodles for breakfast, but I’m in no hurry. Don’t you wish every work day is like my Friday? I hate having to rush around and get ready for work. This job is great in that I can make my own schedule and still work over 40 hours a week (wtf? haha). S’ok, though, because all my clients are great, my coworkers are awesome, my supervisor is supportive, and everyone loves me (the feeling is mutual!). It makes coming to work really easy.
Yesterday, Jen and I hung out after work before Mark’s celebration dinner. We bought scarves. She’s my shopping buddy. A bad influence. Heh. She’s cute and she’s fun to hang out with, and I’m sucking up to her because I know she reads this site. 
Hee hee hee. This way, when I’m late for paperwork again, she’ll forgive me because she can’t help it. *bats eyelashes innocently*
August 30, 2007 at 11:27 pm · Filed under sponsored
Online Discount Mart is holding an end-of-summer sale — huge sale. I believe I blogged about them before, when summer first began, over at my other blog, and how everything there is so bloody inexpensive. Garden decors and home decors are all so reasonably priced. Now, they are holding an end-of-summer sale, which means that the already inexpensive items are even more inexpensive! Everything is a percentage off, including windmills for your back yard. Aren’t those things cool? That one in particular is only 8 feet tall and would look totally neat in our back yard. It’s only $38, too, from the $55 before the sale. What a great percentage off! Go and check out the rest of the site for more savings for your home and garden.
August 30, 2007 at 11:20 pm · Filed under heart, interests, thoughts
Yesterday Husband and I saw a really touching, heart-warming, soul-gutting movie: Blood Diamond. I recommend everyone sees it, especially because the subject is so sensitive and the imagery is so soul-wrenching. I think people need to be exposed to what goes on halfway around the world. While I’m not generally a fan of Leonardo DiCrapio, I find that a lot of his movies are really well-done. He’s not just another pretty face.
Throughout this whole movie, I kept asking Dave, near tears, “How could people do this to each other..? I don’t understand..”
How could we shoot children and women needlessly? How could we kill innocent people? How could we dance for joy around bloody, maimed, lifeless bodies in pools of red, red blood? I don’t understand. I refuse to look at it as human nature. Rather, it is something that has seriously wrong with the human race, that would allow us to hurt each other in such a horrid way.
When Dave and I first got engaged, and while we were looking for my perfect engagement ring and our perfect wedding bands together, Dave insisted that we get non-conflict diamond rings. I didn’t even know what that meant. I didn’t realize there was even such a thing as “blood diamonds.” I started reading more into it, and I realized that most of the world’s diamond industries hold all the wealth of all the diamonds coming in, and most of the diamonds coming in are from 3rd world countries where child slaves and innocent laborers were forced to mine for diamonds in poor, ugly conditions. Most of them are killed off, or separated from their families, or made to live in cages. These are smuggled, dirty diamonds. These are diamonds with blood souls. These are rotten, bad diamonds.
When we started looking for diamonds for my rings, we realized that Canadian diamonds (which are non-conflict diamonds — which means they were mined legally, ethically, and safely: no one had to bloody die for my finger to freakin’ shine) cost even less than conflict diamonds did. In the U.S., to get diamonds imported — whether with conflict diamonds or non-conflict diamonds — they all cost pretty much the same. The only difference is that those ignorant buy blood diamonds because they are more common. Most of us don’t know where diamonds come from. Most of us don’t realize that the first hands who touched our little sparkling stones was a starved, whipped, beaten, bloody, brainwashed, little boy in South Africa. Most of us don’t realize the lives that were lost to get that little piece of fucking rock on our finger. Most of us are too fucking stupid to know the price we have to pay in order to look pretty.
I’m fucking proud that I don’t have conflict diamonds gracing my fingers. I told Dave that if we couldn’t find non-conflict diamonds, then I don’t want any diamonds at all. I could very well wear a stone made of sand on my finger and I’d be happy. Please, please, for the love of Buddha and God and Allah and the good part of your soul, don’t buy blood diamonds. Insist, simply insist, that the next diamond you buy, for your girlfriend, or your fiancee, or your mother, or even your pet or yourself, not be a blood diamond. Please.
August 29, 2007 at 9:53 pm · Filed under sponsored
Is it already almost Christmas? What the heck? I have a bazillion people to shop for, and I should probably get started. It’s still bright and sunny outside and minus the couple of rainy and cloudy days here and there, it doesn’t feel like it’s only less than 4 months away from Christmas. I know Sylv, my mother-in-law, is already halfway done with her Christmas shopping (she’s crazy efficient!), and we haven’t even started yet. I guess since this year, we’re both making money, it will be easier. I have to get started on the handmade/homemade presents though, if I want to finish them all on time before Christmas, and as for the rest of the presents, I really have to get some christmas gift ideas because I’m running out of creative things to do and get for my family and friends. I even want to make homemade Christmas cards too, so this will be quite the endeavor. At this rate, I should’ve gotten started after New Year’s!
August 28, 2007 at 10:30 pm · Filed under daily
As I was describing the other day while we were still at Gabriola Island, I was blessed enough to have the opportunity to do yoga on the beach. The tide was out, so I put a mat out in the middle of the rocks right in front of the water. Dave took some photos. I thought they looked pretty cool, so I’m sharin’ ‘em. 
In order of the photos:1. Full shoulder stand.
2. Toe stand.
3. Half shoulder stand.
4. Wheel.
5. Downward dog.
6. Standing bow.
7. Downward dog transition.
August 28, 2007 at 7:41 pm · Filed under sponsored
If you ever ask me about going on a vacation, my ideal answer would always be: beach holidays! I looove the beach, and a holiday isn’t a holiday unless the beach is involved. I’ve grown up alongside beaches all my life, and currently we live about two minutes from the beach. Yet, somehow, I never get tired of going to the beach. I think it’s the most calming experience ever. When we think about our next vacation destination, we are also seriously thinking about utilizing Dial-A-Flight because of the fact that I get to talk to someone instead of just trying to book online. While booking online is convenient, I sometimes get anxious because I don’t get to speak to a real live person about spending a lot of money on a flight or a trip. Dave and I have been talking about going on a beach resort holiday, specifically Hawaii (for our honeymoon coming up!). Even though Hawaii is so well-known, it still feels like a place where exotic beach holidays take place, doesn’t it? However, just because it’s exotic doesn’t mean it can’t be obtained with a cheap flight. With dial-a-flight, tropical holidays get more and more reasonable by the year!
August 28, 2007 at 7:22 pm · Filed under daily
Anyone want a really, really cuddling kitty? Neither Dave or I can get anything done right now because ever since we got home from Gabriola yesterday, she’s been following us non-stop and demanding a cuddle from both of us at least once every 5 minutes. Last night I barely got any sleep because the furball insisted on constantly laying right on top of me (and she weighs almost as much as I do 
), and sleeping on my chest or on my bladder the whole night, well into the morning and even after Dave left for work. It left for a very uncomfortable Pixie, and a tired one when I woke up too. Not to mention, by the time I got up at around 8am, I was so ready to go to the bathroom because the darn furball was sleeping on my bladder the whole night.
Right now, she’s rolled on her back on Dave’s lap, insisting that she get a constant, full-attention belly rub at all times. Every time he reaches for his keyboard, she swaps his hand back and makes herself more comfortable, full on her back and against his chest. And if it even feels to her that he’s not paying complete attention to her, she gets up, and crawls all over his shoulders and head butts his face until he kisses her back and gives in for another full-on, belly-up cuddle. The fuzzball is something to talk about. She’s hilarious. I’ve never seen a cat so attention-seeking before!
So, anyone want to borrow a really cuddly kitty for about a day, so we can actually get some serious work (read: internet lazying around) done?
August 28, 2007 at 6:54 pm · Filed under interests, sponsored
It’s already over one whole month since Dave and I got married. Wow, the time goes by fast, doesn’t it? I remember just last year thinking that our wedding would never come. I tell ya this much, though: boy am I sure glad that we don’t have to plan for it anymore. The planning stage is completely done with and we’re both very happy to be settling down once again. Life is simpler, and I don’t feel the need to have to fill up this “extra” time. I have this big box of wedding stuff that I still need to go through and organize, but that will come in time and I am in no rush. I also still have to make thank you cards and send out photos to everyone with the cards, but I can’t do that until the photos come in from the photographers, so we’re still waiting on those.
Next thing you know, we’ll be nearing our first year anniversary and thinking of anniversary gifts! Can you believe that? Being married is very fun, and we crack jokes at each other all the time about this new and hip “title” we’ve suddenly given ourselves: husband and wife. Yeah, we’re hip, yo. We’re really hip. Be jealous.
August 28, 2007 at 6:46 pm · Filed under thoughts
Do you ever come across moments throughout your day where you think, “Damn, I really need to write this down, because this is so significant even though it doesn’t seem so.”? I came across one of those moments today. I didn’t have a paper or a pen anywhere, and I swore I would remember it in order to write it down when I got home and in front of my computer. Well, apparently, swearing didn’t do much good, because I completely forgot what the significant detail of my day was. So now here I am, trying to wrack my brain hard enough so I can remember what it was I wanted to share with all of you.
Oh yes, I know you come here just dying to read my little pearls of wisdom about everyday living. Sorry to let you down. All I remember is the vestige of the feeling left behind the epiphany of my thoughts. I remember feeling a little more wise after recognizing the moment as phenomenal. I remember thinking, “Wow… this is.. so real.” I remember knowing that I am a better person for having found this one little moment of seeming insignificance and being able to hold it as close to me as if it were a piece of jewel or diamond. Even the smallest diamond betrays its own size in its worth. Well, whatever it was, apparently it made me a wiser person even though I have no idea how. Oh well. Perhaps tomorrow I will find another pearl of wisdom. One can only hope.
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