I have two friends doing the AIDS/Lifecycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. It takes a lot of hard work, dedication and countless hours of training and conditioning to do this ride, and I admire Raven and Dave K for doing this. They have to raise a certain amount of money to do the ride, because if they don’t, they can’t be part of the race. It’s not chump change they’re aiming for, either, they’ve got high expectations, but I think that with enough support, they can meet their goals.

Click on these icons to sponsor them - they could really use the help, and it’s all for a good cause!

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This provides five minutes of entertainment, or if you’re certain people who sit across from me at work, an hour.

The Mueller Invitational 2005

I had a tough time with some of the brackets, like with Eva Mendes, Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie, Eva Longoria, etc. So many to choose from!

How are you choosing them? Based on your own criteria - there are no rules. So vote the winner based on who you think is the hottest, who annoys you the least, who is all around the best, who you think would win in a drunken catfight, in slow motion, in a shower…

I’ll post up my final four and winners in the comments…I’d love to hear yours!

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I forgot to post this picture of my new haircolor. Aquaman took it the day we went to the new McDonalds. It would have been nice if he told me that my hair was messed up and looked like straw. I know that I said I have issues with people touching my hair (guys actually), but this is one instance where I would minded if he either a) told me to fix it myself or b) just fixed it himself before taking the picture. Oh well! If you look real hard, you can see Redpac taking a picture of me. Actually, you don’t have to look hard at all. If you think his hair looks like a helmet in this picture, you should see it now!

I don’t remember what the actual color I used was, but I had been hoping it would be a little brighter and farther away from my natural hair color. I was looking for an almost big change. Why not a big change? because I’m really a chicken. Anyway, I think you can only see the color when I’m in natural sunlight. In indoor lighting, it looks pretty much like my natural hair color. I’ll give it a couple months. I may go back to highlights for the summer.

I’m having a love/hate relationship with my new bangs. I hate them because I’m constantly pushing them out of my face, and I had forgotten from my pubescent bang related acne problem what havoc bangs can do to your face. I have a zit that may ro may not be related to my hair being in my face all the time. We’ll see.

However, there are other days that I love love love my hair! Actually, I love it more than I hate it. I was really scared to get bangs, but I’m glad I did. Personally, I think they look great. It could look like crap to everyone else, but this is one of the few times where I don’t care. I was concerned that they would be high maintenance (and hair maintenance is something I rank right there with washing windows) but I could just wash and go without much other styling, which is great. Back when I had cut off my hair, I had to make sure to blowdry it then make sure that it did get all crazy afro on me. I don’t miss those days!

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Photo Friday : Fancy

Hallway at the Venetian - Las Vegas, NV : March 2003

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Sweet Tea Count for the Trip: 9 glasses. Bathroom trips because of sweet tea: 24.

Um, not like I’m counting.

We went to lunch at this awesome little place in Jackson called Two Sisters Kitchen. Basically, it was a big old house that had the furniture in the living room cleaned out, with several tables set up for a buffet. The dining room and upstairs had a bunch of tables, and the backyard was a big dining area. The food was excellent and the dessert was even better. Yummy bread pudding!

I was downing yet another glass of sweet tea, and my coworker, who’s from the south, said, ‘You like sweet tea?’

Did the look of complete happiness on my face give it away?

‘Yeah, it’s the best thing about coming to the south!’

‘You Yankees aren’t supposed to like sweet tea! You’re genetically supposed to dislike it!’ he said.

I am? I’ve been labelled many things in my life - chink, flip, Asian, nerd, geek, bitch, drama queen….but this is the first time I’ve ever been called a ‘Yankee’. I smiled, sipped my tea, and told him that I just couldn’t help myself. I loved the south for making my life a little bit happier with its invention of sweet tea. And for having chicken and dumplings as an option for a ‘vegetable’ with your meal.

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This week, our clients were off on Monday. We heard it was because of Arbor day. Isn’t that awesome? To be off on Arbor day?

Then we discovered the truth. They were off because of Confederate Memorial Day. I guess in Mississippi (and some of the rest of the south) they have their own holidays. Lucky!

Wait a second, am I still in the US? It’s like another world down here.

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Thursday Challenge : Building

Wrigley Building in Fog - April 2002

Sometimes working on the higher floors of a sky scraper is an amazing experience. When the fog rolls in, it’s like you’re working in the sky, in a land surrounded by clouds.

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For any of you who have been curious about ABC’s hit show ‘Lost’, but feel you can’t catch up so late in the season, ABC will be having a special tonight going over the key points in the show. It’s not the same as watching all the past episodes, but it should be a good start. This is my favorite show right now - it’s smart, it’s suspenseful, it’s well written, the cast is very easy on the eyes, and it’s filmed in Hawaii. It’s addicting!

If you don’t watch tonight’s show, the DVD comes out in September, and you can be SURE that I’m going to be buying it and having a ‘Lost’ marathon at my place!

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I would like to say that I’m a tiramisu connoisseur. My many travels give me the chance to check out tiramisu all over the country. There’s been a lot of good, and some bad. Some have looked incredibly appealing, some look like mounds of crap.

I was excited today to try out the dinner special (room service because I’m resting up the back), which was bruschetta, braised pork and tiramisu.

The pork was AWESOME. Incredible. Yummy for my tummy.

I waited to digest before moving to my tiramisu, so I could fully enjoy the experience.

And I lifted up the plate cover, I was surprised. It was a bit small, and looked like it was something that was bought from a store. Well, that’s ok. I’ve had some great store bought tiramisu before.

So I sunk my spoon into it. Hmm, not much rum. Not much of anything except for the ladyfingers part.

I put it into my mouth…

…and…

YUCK!

Worst.

Tiramisu.

Ever.

What a letdown! What a waste. All those minutes of anticipation, for nothing! All I’m left with is a mouthful of a squooshy spongelike sweetness. Eew.

At least I have my sweet tea. My third glass of the day. The only drawback is that I go to the bathroom about 3 times an hour. A small price to pay for that sweet tea goodness!

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Back in Jackson. Once again, I have brought rainstorms of biblical proportions with me.

Here’s a picture from the last time I was here of the dome of the capital building.

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1) Hit my grandmother with a cup. That was an instant spanking right there.
2) Ran away from home with my two sisters. I came back about 15 minutes later
3) Smoked in 6th grade. My sisters were traumatized.
4) Stole money from my mom’s piggy bank
5) Combined my mom’s perfume into one bottle
6) Tried to jump over our fence. Got a nasty cut.
7) Pushed my cousin Kathy out a window. Or so I’ve been told. Poured a can of Pepsi on my cousin Vern’s head. Or so I’ve been told.
9) Gave a girl a papercut in kindergarten because I was jealous that she had her ears pierced
10) Thought it was cool to be Wonder Woman 3 years in a row for Halloween

Next Week: 10 Plans for this Summer

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