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:: Saturday, June 08, 2002 ::
oh yeah i forgot to mention - LAKERS WON yesterday. i talked to jordan about the games yesterday, while he is in jersey, and he seemed pretty pissed. he knew they would lose, and he kept acting like they were still in the game : P hehe. sorry jojo!!!
:: meggy spilled the "beans" at 5:16 PM [+] ::
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thursday i woke up at 8:30am, thanks to gilu's phone call : P we met up and went to starbucks, and i still got to work before 10am. so i didn't get to spend much time with her but it was better than nothing. she went back to israel, and i was sad to see her go! i was also sad for her cuz she felt pretty disappointed w/ a few parts of her trip.
the day at work went by pretty fast cuz i had coffee that lasted me all morning (i can't handle that stuff, i have to drink it little by little! starbucks has CRACK coffee, gives me jitters). i ate leftover baby lunch, which isn't as bad as it sounds, cuz we take the crusts off their PB sandwiches, and i ate all that. sweet ceci took me home after work and stopped off at la taquiza for dinner cuz i fixed the time on her car clock. : ) i looove la taquiza, and i got to try el pastor and asada mulitas, both a nice treat. i hung out in my room for quite some time until danbaz and a bunch of people whisked me away to 'beer and tacos'. i was still full from my dinner but it was a nice trip. the place was el taurino, 'a really nice place to eat', which seems like a german beer hall that serves tacos. pretty nifty. i will have to go back when i'm hungry (and i have cash).
ian and i went to starbucks and hung out catching up on stuff, and i got to meet his friend shane who works there. the guys showed up again and we watched stupid dating shows and just talked. i have been going to bed waaay before 2am these days. go me.
friday i worked 10-12, then took off to my appointment. i was glad to go cuz this one parent had been 'hanging out' and annoying me all morning. he had a droning singing voice and he was making all the babies unsettled and chaotic. my appointment took forever but it was cool. the problem was i was getting really bad cramps (two days early grrr), so after taking forever to get home in the heat and traffic (good thing i picked up a FREE mocha coconut at the bean), i stopped off at the daycare to check in.
and the ladies had put together a 'megan bed fund' or something, and gave me $100 CASH MONEY in a card that they'd all signed, and ceci had made all cute and colorful! soo sweet. now i can for sure get this bed next week, cuz now i'm stinking rich!!! hehe. well not really but it's still soooo nice of them cuz i was really worrying about this bed. i will have to think of something special i can do that doesn't cost $$$. hmm....
after work i chased down a bus w/ cynthia, and then went home to meet peter, the guy who uses the grill on my lawn. he was making some goood asada and gave me a piece mmm. nice guy!
i was cleaning my room and talking to the house mates, and erica and joanna showed up. yay! joanna ALWAYS bails, i was glad she came this time. we went on a ralph's run and got vanilla smifnoff, smirnoff, watermelon puckers, dr pepper, lemonade, and coke. woo hoo what fun that turned out to be. jose came over, and eventually gabe, and we all headed over to the orange:house party. jeff and his pals showed up, kim (jessica/aniroc's friend), and my neighbor chris were all there. the dans and scotts came, and we held an auction on who got to shave ian's balls. luckily i didn't win (but i had bid my CAR). i found out gabe had designed a contest called 'get meggers preggers' and JAKE (little quiet jake) had designed a shirt idea 'got meggers preggers and all i got was this lousy shirt!' i met a bunch of new people but my attention span was pretty short. hehe. some people got really high, and joanna and erica had to leave early-ish to pick up erica's siblings. later on there was this bonfire in the alley, cuz someone had lit a couch on fire. g and 'i' were making some stupid jokes and t got offended. personally, i was offended also, but everyone was drunk so i wasn't about to get 'into' anything. but everyone else started arguing, and yelling and acting the fool.
back at the house we were on a mission to find fries. and we were discussin where. j said 'well we can't go to denny's, they don't serve black people.' obviously they do here, but since they dont in some areas, he will not support the chain. but somehow t found THIS also offensive, and whatever g said also (i didn't hear him but everything that leaves his mouth seems offensive), and all of the sudden t was yelling personal insults at g, about how he was such a terrible person who deserved no respect. well that is his opinion, and maybe others share that, but BOTH of them have a reputation of being unpleasant very often, so one telling the other ANYTHING didn't seem very sensible. drunken beligerence or not, this was ridiculous. so i grabbed j by the hand and ran off the porch. we got halfway down the street and called j2 on his cell, said 'french fries' and he came running. we went to chanos, and by the time we got back the fighting had JUST subsided. 'i' was taking g home, and they both looked really unhappy. i asked c what had happened and she freaked out and said that it was over and we weren't bringing it up again. okeee. t was sitting there like nothing had happened, which was kinda disturbing. turned out t asked g to leave his house, and g didn't want to leave, and 'i' eventually went to his room to avoid the yelling and t came INTO his room and told him to make his friend leave. understandable, he should have had his guest leave at the request of another house mate. but i hope t realizes what had happened and somehow this is corrected because we are all gonna have friends that not everyone likes and it's best to just ignore these people that we don't like and not instigate anything or put our two cents into EVERYTHING. grr.
biggest problem - t and g are LIVING WITH US all this fall, and now we are supposed to choose who can live w/ us? no way. they can decide if THEY can live together in harmony or at least ignore each other and act civilly, or they can BOTH find a new place. because from where i was standing, everyone was getting pretty beligerant and insultive and they all need to be more respectful of each other, or just find somewhere else to live! i hope this subsides....
today i woke up at noon and cleaned up downstairs (wow what a mess!) and then got a call from my therapist, she's such a nice woman. always checking up on me. i was ok today though. and now i'm doing laundry at my dad's. i almost ran out of underwear, i hadn't done laundry in a whole month!!! he is still ignoring me. i'm leaving his father's day present on the counter when i leave, its' just a black latte mug that says 'usc dad' on it. not like that will change anything but oh well.
my ameh and mom have put a little money in my account to pay back my credit bills, and my aunt in phoenix sent me grad pics from when they visited last month. ooh these are actually pretty good! i look cute! what happened. hehe maybe black is just my color. my nephew is so cute, there are pics of him running on the track at usc. i miss him, and roxanna. alex is coming on june 20-july 10. that will be fun. oh and i found out my favorite usc prof had a baby last week, a girl!! i gotta go see her! : )
:: meggy spilled the "beans" at 4:16 PM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 ::
i did some driving monday to blow off some steam, ran some errands, etc. good thing i got that off my chest, cuz tuesday i passed my car on the way to work, and it had THE BOOT. yep, they finally got me for six unpaid parking violations. $420 to get that off. i didn't have $420. so i had to take it from a credit card.
tuesday at work i was pretty much nauseous with the thought of paying so much money, which i had none of. i couldn't do much about it at the time though, so after work i met up w/ gilu and terie and we went to mccormick's for some happy hour specials. i will miss gilu : (
wednesday i was up at 8, and moved to the couch to nap off and on til 10 or so. i did this in an effort to be near the door, for when the phone guy came back to make sure they didn't turn it off again. my appointment was between 8-12. i set up some of the furniture i had, and at 12:30 i called pac bell kinda pissed off. they said 'oh your appointment is 1-5.' i was soo mad. i had sat all morning, neglecting my car boot waiting for this guy to come so i could go get my stuff in order. i dont have time to sit from 8-5 in my house! i didn't even get to take a shower til that gap between 12 and 1, for fear he would come while i was in it! so i called ebeth to come chill w/ me, and we called dan r to watch the house while i did my getmoney stuff. i had to pay a bill on a computer on campus, get to the bank, turn credit into $400, then go to the place downtown to pay them my money.
we get to this shady little place and they want $420 and neither of us had the 20 so we went in search of an atm. it was out of order cuz there was someone repairing it. so we waited for the repairs. then finally it was all paid, and i was still sad, and ebeth took me to cpk for lunch. i got the field greens, mmm. i felt a little better, and she showed me slides of her photography. she is gonna hook me up w/ a few awesome prints from some local gardens.
dan r, scott p, scott s and danbaz came over (colby for a bit) and we watched the lakers game w/ terie and jake (the roommates). i was thinking about jordan's reactions the whole time, cuz he's a huge nets fan. i bet he put some money in that game too. oops.
we headed to ralph's to get some stuff for scott p's gourmet spinach, and i ran into heffe and his crew, buying discount meat. supposedly they will come out w/ us friday, and a bunch of the ladies from coffeebean are coming. maybe this will be a good weekend. and i got an email from a good friend, unexpectedly. yay : ) i have been pretty down lately, especially now that my dad has pretty much turned his back on me emotionally and financially, and it seems like rachel's warning on my reaping what i've sown is coming true. hence the boot. i have also had to reevaluate a few things, such as a friendship w/ someone that i may not want to invest effort into anymore. some people have a way of making you feel like maybe you didn't know them at all, and you just saw what they wanted you to see. i guess change is inevitable, but not always for the better. i kinda feel tricked, but i have no one to blame but myself. argh. we'll see when i get to come back online again : )
:: meggy spilled the "beans" at 10:26 PM [+] ::
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:: Monday, June 03, 2002 ::
i got most of my stuff moved into the house on saturday. ian, clare, jake and i went to baja fresh over at the beverly connection, AND ian and clare had coldstone creamery ice cream, that is some GOOOD stuff. too bad i was too full to order something for myself, or even be much help to them!
then the five of us had a few people over to hang out on the porch and drink beer from the beer fridge. coronas were on sale at ralphs, REALLY cheap. so we got four twelve-packs. mwahahah. too bad i don't drink beer.
i think our house is haunted. it IS over a 100 years old. and it makes lots of noise. sunday i was home alone, sleeping til 1pm, and i kept thinking there were other people in the house. part of the problem is i can hear EVERYTHING the nextdoor neighbors are doing from my room, cuz my window and theirs is open, and there is a narrow walkway between houses and the sound bounces right up to me. eventually i got up and ready, then sat outside returning phone calls from the yard.
eventually ian and clare came back, and we headed to IKEA. i had never been there before, very overwhelming. moreso than amoeba cuz there was a huge sell and it seemed to be a foreign madhouse. kinda like an outlet mall. the bed i am getting from that exchange student is full size, and has an ikea frame, in birch. so i can find matching furniture there easy. but jake got a $30 rolly desk at target, which is hard to pass up! : ) i got a cute little silver lantern w/ star shapes, a rubber inflatable ottoman (not plastic) to use as a pillow when i play nintendo, wooden hangers, silverware, 100 tea candles, a vinyl hanging closet shelf, a wooden shoe rack, three wall clocks, a blue beach blanket, etc. all for just $73!!!! amazing.
gilu came back from the jewelry expo in vegas, so she met me, ian, terie, and clare at il fornaio. mmmm i had zucchini soup, spinach ravioli w/ artichokes and tomatoes in wine reduction (whatever that means), and like 8 glasses of ice tea. gilu had the butternut squash ravioli as usual, which is GREAT (next time i order that). the waiter, dajon (day-on) was a trip. he said he was a cinema major at cal state lb, and 26 years old. he wanted to go to usc for masters but is still working on his bachelors and on probation. he was pretty cute, but he kept smelling our drinks and doing wacky wacky things. gilu was scared of him i think. clare invited him and the bus boy back to our house, cuz it was her birthday and she'd had a few drinks. : ) we shared THE BEST chocolate raspberry mousse-cake, an ok chocolate and vanilla custardy flan thing, and had some of clare's bday tiramisu. all was well. i love that place, this time was a bit unconventional but next time we will make sure to get gianni, gilu's favorite waiter who treats us like princesses, and knows she doesn't know how to order : )
i finally gave gilu her christmas present (purple esprit purse), and she gave me a beautiful coil bracelet (bronzey red w/ silver), and a shimmery purple coin purse. she ALSO gave ian a leather wallet and both of us a ton of candy mmm. i went to bed pretty soon after getting home. sooo tired. but still jittery from ice tea so i had to listen to three cds before i actually passed out.
while i was out the guy from derek's couch called me, from san francisco. he is coming down here, and wants to meet up. hmm....
i ran into michael from the orange:house, and he said he was having a byob party on friday. and i live right behind them practically, so i will be sure to make it.
i don't work today, won't work wednesday, just tomorrow 1-6. niiice. i had a dream about work though. i came in on my day off and my work was in this scary gothic cathedral all of the sudden. they were understaffed and i was helping w/ cleaning up after snack. i said i couldn't work cuz i only get 20hrs and she started this 'so cry me a river' speech and said i was whiney and i got all upset and said i would just not work there anymore. : ( good thing it was just a dream.
:: meggy spilled the "beans" at 12:58 PM [+] ::
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