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This is funny as ever.. from Rupaul's site.

THE TRICKLE DOWN THEORY


i was released thursday morning with the instructions to “not over do it” and “to take it easy”, which is exactly what i’ve been doing. sunday, i got behind the wheel of my vehicle to drive to tom’s house. the driving aggravated my back a little, but i had to see THE ANNA NICOLE SHOW. i loved it ! what a train wreck ! i can’t wait to see next week ! she had to have been on the same medication i was on when i was in the hospital. ANNA looked just like the late, great GINGER RODGERS, right before her death, all bloated and painted up like a “baby jane sex doll”. how perfect would she be for the next JOHN WATERS film ? when she gets her settlement, she’ll be excellent for the los angeles economy, everyone will benefit. i mean, the trickle down theory will be astounding, doctors, drug dealers, lawyers, plastic surgeons, hustlers, interior designers...etc. it’s a real live BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.

Wednesday

I recieved an email today - am I 'guestin' tonight? In other words, am I bringing a guest to my meeting tonight? Nope. I did invite my co-worker who was in the hospital last week, but she declined due to therapy but wants to when she's finished with her medical stuff. Understandable. It didn't bother me when she turned me down, I want her health better then anything in the world.

But for me, I had a long battle over the week about it. I was told not to let the disappointments get to me and I had. Then I said I would never bring someone with me again, and I know that's not true, just not right now. In the same token though, this is my one night for fun for myself. I enjoy going out and meeting with my other friends, enjoy the accomplishment when I recieve praises for the work I have done. Setting myself up for guests and then being mad the whole night because they bailed on me is not fun on my one night. So why let them ruin it for me? I just don't ask. If they want to go, they will have to invite themselves. But I'm not going to get worked up about this. This is my night and they will ruin it for me.

So tonight, though I have slumped this past week biz wise, the only praise I can see coming from anything will be the website I have designed for the Unit. I'm wondering if I added the greymatter stuff to my Unit's site would it jazz it up a bit. Can't think of what I would use it for right now, but the possiblities are endless. I guess foremost, I'm just itching to try out greymatter for my own personal use, and I don't have the money at this point to get my own webspace. I wonder if attbi.com has Perl stuff.

Geesh.. boss is away and all I want to do is journal. :)

simple pleasures

Life is fun... when the boss and VP is out of town.

Thank you very much

Elvis week is coming up. The anniversary of his death. Do you remember the day? I do. I was about 9 years old, summer was still hot, school didn't start for another week or two and my mother had just gone back to work that day, for the first time in years.

It was also one of the first times that my sister and I stayed home all by ourselves with no sitter. She is 3 years younger then I. I don't remember much of the day. With my parent's strict rules, I'm sure we didn't do much. No one could come over to the house while my parents were gone, we couldn't go to a friends house while they were gone, couldn't talk on the phone, but at that age, talking on the phone hadn't hit me yet.

The most I remember was, we were sitting watching TV in the afternoon and in the middle of a show, there came this special report. Something that just wasn't done in the mid afternoon in the 70's. Back then there was only about 3 to 7 channels. No newsman came on earlier then 5:00 that I was aware of at time. I swear it went to a commercial before the news man came on, because for what seemed forever, my sister and I were on the edge of our seats that some lunatic had escaped jail and was on the loose near mom. My mother delivered newspapers to the stores outside of town and bundles to carriers so they could do their paper-routes. This route was at least 40 miles out of town, up and down the highway with deliveries, sure to find some weirdo along the way.

We panicked waiting for the guy to come on the air and tell us what happened.

The newsman came on and announced the death of Elvis Presley. My first thought was "that's it? No lunatic?" My sister, who up till then was never a huge fan, or so I thought wasn't, started crying and wailing. I wonder now if she could have put those girls at Elvis' concerts to shame. I felt bad that he died, but for me who was into Shawn Cassidy, Elvis was not a thing of the day.

Within weeks, my sister had Elvis posters all over her room, and his records playing. I couldn't even come into her room if I had intent to tease her about the whole situation.

Time went by, Duran Duran replaced Elvis on her wall and the Go-Go's was on the record player.

But I look back on that moment every time the nation goes into Elvis week and think of my mom going to work that day.

My mother gave me some of her handwritten diaries after I had my children in 1995. For a month when I had time to read, I read her journals and it was like reading a novel. It went back to when she met my dad and they dated in 1965, all the way to 1977. I laughed when I remembered some of the moments, and saw it from her view, and I cried when I realized what was going on in her life that she shielded from my sister and I. And I was ripped when her journal stopped on August 16, 1977. Mom had gone back to work and didn't have time to write after that. It was as if someone tore the pages at the end of a mystery book and I have no clue who was the murderer.

Mom has since taken up writing in a journal again, and I know I won't see the pages until after she passes away. I look forward to finishing the novel with a few missing pages. As for Elvis - another novel that was never finished completely. But he had manners.. thank you, thank you very much.

to drive or not to drive

So I have wondered if my title is a little wierd. Drivin My Life to a Red Grand AM!. I mean, it makes sense, it's the goal I'm trying to achieve, but is it too log for this journal? Then I thought of VH1 and the show "Driven". How the stars take the hard and long road to success but don't give up, or at least take a pitstop on drugs and then get back on the road and get to that point of "I am the king of the world" status. So I thought, how about "Driven" for my blog title? But I'm not there yet, I don't have the car or 'driven' the car yet.. so now I wonder if I should say "Drivin" or just leave it the hell alone.

I'm in a funk. UGH.

On a lighter note, the link was replaced with the naught site is fixed and is just blank now. Not sure if they got my email or not. Julie and I got a giggle about it. She was a QA person when we worked together a few years back.

three times a no no

Ever done one of those "oospie" moments? I not only did it, but so did Mary Kay.com. We have an intranet area for consultants full of goodies to surf around. Today they launched a cool new section and I was idling surfing. I click on one of the links to download some pdf file and all these porn pop-up windows show up on my window. I'm AT WORK with this happening! Heart failure kicks in and I'm trying to find out how this happened.

After composure sits back in, I surf Mary Kay again and I do a roll-over of the links. There it is.. that pdf file say "download here" but the link to says triple x . com. A quick placement of the link while they get the file ready, I understand.

Use a different link next time. I'm sure there is going to be a ton of consultants freaking out when they hit that link.

100 Things

I have seen this on a few other sites, so decided to add my own. Once I get my own web space, I'll have all this easy linked to:

1. I'm in my 30's

2. I'm 5'2

3. I'm over-weight, but wasn't like this in high school

4. I'm brown haired

5. I don't tan easily

6. I'm left handed

7. I'm the oldest

8. I have a sister

9. I'm a Gemini

10. I was born in New Mexico

11. I was born June 21st, at 12:31am

12. I have a good relationship with my family

13. My parents were still married when my dad died in 1996

14. I suffer from Depression, as my sister does, my father did and so did my grandmother and great grandmother.

15. I met my husband at a Naval Base bar in 1990

16. I was married on a Naval Aircraft Carrier, the USS Lexington, with my Commanding Officer giving me away in marriage.

17. I graduated from high school in 1985

18. I was in band - I played the flute

19. I was voted "Biggest Dreamer" in my Senior year

20. I was a JV Cheerleader my Junior year

21. I was not a popular girl in school

22. I've lived in 5 different states

23. I wear glasses, even owned a pair of red ones like Sally Jesse Raphel

24. I love to read

25. I love hot weather

26. I love to golf, even though I suck at it

27. I love music

28. I had the chickenpox when I was 5

29. I got braces when I was 8 , then because I did not wear my retainer, had to wear them again at 11

30. I hate to argue or fight

31. I get pissed off at stupid drivers

32. I hate being tickled

33. I could never be a vegetarian - I love meat

34. I hate seafood

35. I am too concerned with what other people think about me

36. I have 2 children, a girl and a boy

37. I wasn't supposed to have kids, many surgies later they arrived

38. I had to have my appendix taken out when I was 5 months pregnant with my daughter.

39. I have a Labador - Shadow

40. I used to have a mixed Corgi - Tuppy. She bit my daughter and I had to give her away

41. I was sexually assuaulted in the Military, he was let off, 5 years later, he was brought up on charges for raping 6 naval students

42. I hate Denver but love the friends I have made

43. I miss my dad terribly, and would like to have some kind of spirtual meeting with him

44. I wish I had been able to get my dad's truck after his death, it was what he loved and I had fond memories of it

45. I hate being broke

46. I'm a loner but I don't like it

47. I want to be successful when I attend my 20 year High School reunion

48. I lack self-esteem

49. I wanted to be a teacher when I was a child

50. Then I wanted to be an airline stewardess when I was older

51. Then I wanted to be a Journalist in my teenage years

52. I joined the Navy and became an airplane washer

53. I am now a graphic artist who works on websites and print work

54. I am a Mary Kay beauty consultant, changing womens lives

55. I am a mom who is trying to instill values and ideas into my children's heads

56. I am a wife who tries to make her husband happy in all that we do

57. I am a daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, mother, Aunt, friend

58. I have done tap, ballet, girl scouts, cheerleading, band, drama, community plays and youth leadership

59. I love the power of being the cookie mom for Girl Scouts

60. My favorite class in school was drama

61. My sucky class was Math

62. I went to college after my dad died and earned my AA Graphics Degree at UNM

63. My teachers groaned when I came into thier classes, they knew I would do a projected related to Coca-Cola

64. I collect Coca-Cola items

65. I have over 400 pieces of Coca-Cola items

66. I want to have a soda fountain in my future dream home

67. I have loved and lost in my life

68. I'm finding out that posting 100 things is not easy

69. I wish I had more willpower to over come my weight issue

70. I wish I could get the dream job and not fear that I will be laid off

71. I want to move to Las Vegas, NV

72. I want my friends to move with me

73. I own a Chevy Red Cavalier, 1997, I had been looking at a white one 4 years earlier with my dad when he taught me to drive shift.

74. I love reading to my children some of the books that my mom read to me when I was a child

75. I would love to visit my sister who lives in Italy

76. I wish I had the strongness in dealing with people like my sister has

77. I wish I had the beauty as my friend Julie has

78. I wish I had the wise attitude as my friend Jennifer has

79. I am blessed to have people like Julie, Jennifer, MaryAnn, Kim, JC and Stephanie in my life.

80. I am complete because of these true friends

81. I hope to one day have the speaking abilities, pose, and grace as SuZanne Brothers, she is a goddess

82. I wish I had met Mary Kay Ash

83. I want to go back to Disneyland for a week

84. I wish we had never filed for bankruptcy

85. I still have my first teddy bear from when I was 4.

86. I still write to my pen pal - Lisa in Rhode Island

87. I still keep in contact with my best friend Kay. We met when we were 3.

88. I hate my freckles but have come to deal with them

89. I sleep on a waterbed

90. I like to play games on the computer

91. I love NBC Must See TV - Thursday night

92. I'm a sap for chic flicks

93. I like Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as actors

94. I have a secret crush on Nicholas Cage (oops.. not a secret now!)

95. I have seen Huey Lewis & the News, Gloria Estafan, Bon Jovi, Marty Stewart, Garth Brooks, U-2, and Depeche Mode in concert.

96. I love retro 80's but will listen to the Rat pack and house dance stuff

98. I have met Marty Stewart, a Country Western singer

99. I am almost at the end

100. I am so glad this is done.

I have started adding links to favorite journals. Twiggles is another great person I would like to get to know, and ummm excuse me if it seems like I'm fixated on Vegas.. but she's another person who is on the move there. Coolies.. I will have friends there when I go visit! Or maybe live there!

I added Puzzle Falls, very touching journal. I wish him the best.

I posted my latest reading with the Back Porch, take a spell and let us know what you think too.

Ugh.. I dumped a bottle of sample perfume in my purse and after 5 days, my purse still smells better then me. But it's strong. Lucky that I am, it's my favorite scent.. but it's just too strong. Oh well, I had to break in a new purse some how. Might as well be with the perfume and not some sticky thing the kids will put in.

> Still in the running for a possible job
> Pedicure time with Jennifer
> Getting Friday off
> My husband fixing the brakes on my car
> My husband fixing the brakes on his truck
> That I seem to be in a better present of mind and that is great in itself
> Two new customers
> I won this at e-bay today.

ramblings

Lets see.. it's Monday, already I wish I wasn't here at work. I hate when my VP goes wild on an idea. The place smells when he thinks too much, and I end up doing stupid stuff.

Blog Tree This has taken off like wild fire and it's cool. Register your blog and see who you are "related" too. What website inspired you to Blog? Here is my tree.

Movies watched this weekend - Dragonfly (awesome!). Romy & Michelles High School Reunion (my life) and Oh Brother, Where Are Thou? (pretty funny).

Positive Participation coming up...

Stock Tip

This sent to me from another consultant -

If you had purchased $1,000 worth of Nortel stock a year ago, it would be worth $49 now.

If you had purchased $1,000 worth of Enron stock, it would be worth $16.50 today.

If you purchased $1,000 worth of WorldCom stock a year ago, it is worthless today.

If you had purchased $1000 worth of Mary Kay inventory it would be worth $2000 and when you sell it those customers will bring you thousands of dollars in reorders and recruiting commissions and might even be your Million $$$$ girlfriends!

So, where will you place your money?

Seminar

We have this huge convention in Dallas every year. It's the Miss America pagent for us, rolled up into pink. Meetings, training and awards night that is just so magical. I haven't been able to go yet due to money and other things going on for the past 2 summers. My mission is to go next year. But this was spoken at the Seminar of the things that the company has achieved, I think i'ts pretty supreme info for such a great company.

Mary Kay saw 200 women reach the NSD level in her lifetime. (a NSD is a National Sales Director, the 1% of the company's high leaders)
2002 - 3,180 new Sales Directors (righ under the NSD)
2000 Cadilliac drivers
28 new NSD 's in all divisions (we are broken up into division so that Dallas can handle us every year at convention time, 5 total, and I'm sure we are to be broken up again with a new division)
37 NSD Emeritus (Retired NSD's)
over $45,000 given to Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation (fighting domestic violence and cancer research)
Mary Kay named Best Selling Brand of skincare and color cosmetics again this year.
We are now "Keepers of the Dream" (since her passing at Thanksgiving)
Seminar in Russia to be held in the Kremlin Palace this year.
In Shanghi, China there is a pink Rose garden in front of the Women's and Children's hospital in memory of Mary Kay. In the middle of the garden is an open book. On the book it tells about Mary Kay and has the Golden Rule written in both English and Chinese.

I am so blessed.

New Look

I just love the look of the site, and I love the cartoon. Of course, I added the car, I mean.. this is the goal.. but I don't feel comfortable that I'm using the graphic. I'm not exploiting it. I will remove my name next to it.. it's not me really, it's all of us. I'm sure it's all of us that see's ourselves in this dynomo woman. I will look it over for the weekend, but now I'm not so sure that the graphic will work. Which is a bummer. I really like her.

In the meantime, I was doing a search on Mary Kay for something else.. and I found this link. My mother says she was not a pretty woman. I have seen some photos that date back to the 60's to the 80's and agree, they could have been done nicer, but saying she wasn't pretty wasn't her fault. I think cosmetics have come a long way since she started this business 40 years ago, and that photography itself has come a long way. I realize she wore a wig, but what woman hasn't? Hello - Dolly? (which I heard that when one of the fragances we carried was stopped, she bought the remaining bulk). Rupual? (does he count?). She really was a beautiful lady.

I see this picture that's in the link, of her in our meetings at night, big and right there on the wall, and sometimes I will just stare at her, and I feel that those eyes are talking to me. She's looking at me, and me only and telling me "Susan, you can do it. I have believe in you." I look back at her and say "really?" "Really". The other night we had a guest speaker, and he had us set goals for the next 12 months. He said "quick, write your goal. Don't think about it, write it". I did. Then he said that only a small percentage of us who have goals, write their goals and now that we have, we are destiny to earn them. I looked at my goal, and looked at the woman on the wall, and back at my goal. I can honsetly say my heart was pounding.

Pink Fridays

I love the Fridays I'm taking off. Of course, I haven't done anything MK related yet on those days, but I do enjoy the day off. :) Which will surely bum me out if I get the job I have applied for in the next few days. The recruiter called me today and said that the person who is doing the interviews is on vacation till Monday, could I wait that long for the interview? Heck.. I've been laid off since Oct. with the same company, what's 3 days? So very positive on that.

Today I went with my good friend Jennifer to have our bi-weekly pedicures. She gave this to me as a birthday gift (I recommend it to any woman who doesn't know what to get their friend for a gift) and it has turned into a hour outing for us. I can't do it every other week yet, but I once a month I can spend the few dollars and have it done. Oh my gosh. I swore at one point when the lady was massaging my legs, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and passed out. I opened my eyes and felt dizzy and light-headed. I also felt reliefed of stress and that a huge weight on my shoulder had been lifted. Maybe she removed some major cyst or something. LOL. I wonder what a full body massage could do for me?

I have also let Jennifer in on my journal. She is my first close, real person to see my journal. Heck at this point, she's probably my only other reader next to me! I have been blessed in the past 2 years since moving to Colorado to have found 3 great friends. Jennifer is my newest friend, and we have just hit it off well. She's my sister and I rolled into one. She has the spit-fire, and will tell it to you straight like my sister, and then she gets nervous in front of crowds, loves make-up and has the same values that I use with myself and my children. We are two peas in a pod done up well. :) Like Julie (my other close friend), Jennifer has hit hard times financally, and has come through, so I look to her when I sometimes don't see the end of the tunnel. I know she's there.. I just have to look out my backyard and see her house and realize.. yep, I'm getting there!

We had a lot of fun today, and once again.. another great reason for having Fridays off.

Oh yeah.. viewed it from work and I really like the lay out, and I found it on my own! :) The image is from the intranet of MK, so yes.. I borrowed. But like my favorite saying.. A Good Artist Borrows, But a Great Artist Steals" so you take it as you please. There are like 10 images of her I found in different places and I think that is cool. I can rotate my moods around her images, and she does resemble me a bit.. about 100 pounds lighter though. (I'm NOT that fat!)

But - because I did end up looking at over 100 journals last night, I do feel that I suffered from what most of the blog-a-thon'ers did... I woke up blogging in my sleep.

wa-hooooo I like! I like! :)

1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from? On my mother's side - England. My father's side - Irish. But both my parents came from Canada, relatives I visit every 5 / 10 years.

2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit? Would like to go to England. My mother has traced it that we were related to a butler who worked for the Queen, many many years ago.

3. Which would you least like to visit? Why? Oh them Canuks can be funny.. but that "eh?" gets old quickly. (all in fun.. I love them all)

4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage? When visiting family, I always wonder why they have fireworks on the 1st of July. :)

5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc)? I guess both. Grandmothers (both mom and dad's) came from their countries to Canada, then my parents to the U.S.

Bloggin

While I'm in the writing mode.. guess who has a journal? Rupaul! Like wow! I love his lay out, and gosh.. I'll be honest. Dang he's good looking as a woman. Makes me look like shame! LOL

I'm on the quest/qwest (prior employeer) to find a new look for this journal. I have spent the past 2 days looking at journal after journal trying to find some inspiration. Journal logs are a lot different then just a website. I love smattering.org's lay out. Since she's in Vegas, she has a few pictures that you can tell are from the strip while you surf her place. I'm sure if she was tracking my hits, she would realize I'm stalking her, but she says the most witty stuff and seems to have her 'stuff' together, she is one person I would like to know better as a friend. The circle she has around her is awesome. I only hope in due time I'll get the same following.

In the meantime I keep looking and I know that my biggest problem lies in that I need to get my own domain name and find some web space so I can go hog wild with it. I have thought of shelling out a few dollars for a domain name and host it at my bosses site. He would have no clue that it's there, but if I get my wish in the next few days, I'll be gone by Sept from his place. Now... if I do get the job I have applied for, and my boss is willing to let me telecommute from home in the evenings, well.. then I think I have found some webspace for free! LOL. But in the meantime, I keep looking.. and if you know of some cool sites that can give this girl a jolt of ideas, please, send it my way. e-mail

Amber

So is it me, or does it seem like the summer of missing children? Seems like every week a child is being taken from their homes. What gets me is, some of these children are playing with other friends, with boyfriends, are young, babes, teenagers. I'm so relieved to hear that the girls in CA have been found. I was gone for a matter of minutes to the grocery store when I got back and found out they had been found. What a sigh of relief. I'm glad that Colorado has put the Amber Alert into effect this past week.

Onesome: Lions. How late do you lie in, or are you an early bird? "fess up, no lying here. If I could - I would sleep in till I had to get up. Normally on a weekend, I'm up around 9am. Weekdays, I'm up at 7am. If I could just lie in bed and read all day, a thing I did b.k. (before kids) I would never get out of bed!

Twosome: Tigers. What brings out the tiger in you? Interpret this how ever you want, just warn us if it is rated other than pg *grin*. Wierd.. but Wednesday nights with my husband. It's the night I get all dressed up for Mary Kay and so the perfume comes on, the dress is on, (pantyhose), make-up done up just right, and I have this professional image, but I could easily take this look and go out for dinner. But by the time I get home, I'm pumped from the meeting and on a natural high. Having my husband compliment on how good I look, smell and feel attitude wise makes my day. I'm a simple girl.. I'm amused easily. :)

Threesome: Bears. Bare it all for us. We always complain about the parts of our bodies we don't like. So here, tell us your favorite part of your body... Are you kidding? Favorite? My eyes. My eyes tell the story before I can get it out of my mouth. Not brite blue, but a pretty blue, hidden behind glasses. When I look at pictures of myself, it's my eyes that pull me in.

Dang.. a little on the vain side I am today.

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