hear me roar!

sometimes i am dying to make a comment (generally about someone) but i know it might be inappropriate, so i would hold it in. but i am still dying to say it. so i will, outloud, to myself, as i drive to the gym today.

i was feeling better yesterday afternoon, and when i was finally hungry, it was past 4 pm. i told my team that i would be able to play vball (we hadn’t been able to find me a sub up to that point anyways), and decided to grab a late lunch.

after i ate, i still had some time to kill before the game. but i didn’t really need to go back to work. so i thought i would go to rei and check out gear. rei is like a haven for any outdoors person - i am not necessarily one, but i do like snowsports. i parked in front of rei, and was taking a phone call. i guess i was tired from not sleeping well the night before and full from my late lunch, so after the call, i leaned back in my seat, and fell asleep.

and i slept for about an hour. i even covered myself with my jacket. since i was right in front of rei, i am sure many people walked by and looked into my car, and thought it was odd.

but i felt much better after i woke up, and well rested for the games.

i was driving to work, and the dj’s on the dance/trance station (92.7) were raving about how some of the gold’s gym have this brand new gadget - every treadmill now has its own tv, so you can run and watch whatever you want.

i guess i never thought of that as a big deal, because my gym has had that for almost as long as i can remember. first it was the small screen (maybe 9″) with a cd player. and now the one i go to at SR has the 15″ (or maybe bigger) flat screens on each cardio machine. it’s definitely helpful when i do cardio and have no one to talk to. plus i feel justified watching worthless tv if i am working out at the same time, so i don’t feel like i am wasting my time.

i woke up sunday and felt so much aches and pain in my body. not the type from working out too much, or a sports injury. i was just hurting all over and couldn’t pin point anywhere specific. the night before i had gotten wet from the rain but i thought it was pretty minor.

i had some errands to do on sunday- being out and about actually helped. then i went to the stanford/ucla game (and witnessed ucla’s only 2nd loss of the season). but the time i got back, i really didn’t feel well. and had quite a fever over night, intertwined with cold sweats. it was kinda gross, actually, waking up feeling all sweaty, from just laying there. that cycle repeated itself a few times, but by the morning, my fever has subsided.

i managed to make it to work, but i am feeling really fatigued. i will probably wrap up as soon as i can so i can get some rest. vball is out of the question tonight.

i use the speakerphone at work all the time, mostly because i am too lazy to pick up the handset. sometimes i call people using the speakerphone and leave voice mails. if you do that too, make sure when you are done, you actually did hang up.

this didn’t happen to me, but someone left a VM, and thought he hung up, but he didn’t. he continued talking to someone in his own office and all that was recorded on the original mail he left. that vm has since then been transcriped and it’s pretty funny. nothing really harmful was said, it’s just embarassing more than anything else. the transcription is seriously something you would normally see floating around the internet.

so how important is the amount of money your significant other makes? or rather, how important is the discrepancy between your income and the other person’s. i realize this is a tough one to answer, because it depends on so many factors. but it’s something that i have pondering about for a while now. because in the end, money is something people fight about all the time, regardless of how people view it. at the same time, money is also very fleeting, one moment you can have it, and the next, it’s gone.

it’s been a long time since i wrote anything real substantive. mostly because i didn’t have much time. work had been pretty crazy since the holidays (actually, what holidays?). although it was crazy, i feel like i was getting really good experience, and getting the type of skills that would be helpful to me in the future.

but suddenly (as it happens in many cases), the plug has been pulled and the case is basically done. it feels weird - cuz we have all been going at full speed for such a long time. it’s a little empty, almost.. but it took a day or so for it to really hit me, but as soon as it did, i started planning time off and vacations. it is, however, hard to find a travel buddy with such short notice, because i really need the time off now, and not two months from now. luckily, i found one. so JS and i are headed to cabo (dreams resort) in about two weeks. i am pretty excited. not early enough but oh well.

i plan to take more time off either before or after that. what i really want to do is attend this special snowboarding clinic for women offered at vail or aspen. i think that’s what it will take to push me to the next level. and i am planning to go alone. the only drawback is that lodging at vail is ridiculously expensive for that weekend (super bowl weekend, actually). but i am still considering it. since i plan to attend the clinic, i don’t have to worry about boarding alone and accidentally fall off the mountain and no one would even notice.

i can’t believe i didn’t 1) know how to spell the word or 2) how to count it in a word. i thought the name “patrick” has 3, and same with “kenneth.” mr. big disagreed with me, so we made a bet and looked it up on google. i was so sure that i was right - so i bet him 10 bucks.

i am 10 bucks poorer now. i guess i have been counting syllables incorrectly all this time. luckily it hasn’t really negatively affected me, until now.

last night was the first good meal i had in a while. by good i mean not rushed, not thinking about work, and not going back to work afterwards. (i did end up having to do a little bit, but oh well. i wasn’t planning to work while at dinner).

mr. big and i had a late dinner at left bank - i suggested a place with good cocktails, and left bank never seem to fail us. i don’t mind expensive cocktails as long as they don’t skimp on the alcohol.

knowing that we both have a busy weekend ahead, a little time off on friday night was a necessity.

i was just watching the ucla game vs. arizona. the bruins came out on top again. i wish i could go to the cal game this coming thursday, but it’s not looking promising. but i do hear there is an extra ticket (out of the 24 or so my friends purchased) so maybe it has my name on it. after the game, i caught a clip about cafe 50’s in west la on the food networks. it totally brought me back to those days where we would all go there for milk shakes late at night. if i remember correctly, they had over 20 flavors. and on tuesday nights ( i think), some shakes were super cheap.

i was giggling a lot during monday’s games, especially when we played the other altera team. even my teammates had to tell meto stop laughing. my excuse was that i have so little to laugh about during the day, so when i am out of work, everything is funny.

it has been pretty stressful lately…the hours just fly by.

speaking of vball, now that altera is not paying for the team anymore (just its employees who play, and not even fully), we were thinking to name it something else. we have always been named after an altera product, (cyclones) -kinda made sense, as a symbol of sponsorship. i wonder what other creative name we can come up with .