| Let the Friends-only Anti-Corporate Rants Begin |
[Aug. 1st, 2009|01:58 am] |
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye!
As Jennifer T/J I have pretty much said what I need to say!
Henceforth - to a large degree - this blog is dedicated to posting job-related rants!
Unless I'm careful I can get fired for this sort of thing, so we are making many subsequent posts to this forum private. If you want to read them you need to either:
- be someone I know in real life (IRL) and identify yourself as such, or
- be someone I know only online yet feel I can trust.
There you have it! It's my blog and I'll rant if I want to! If you don't like it, get your own blog!!
Until later, sweetie darlings, muah - muah!!!
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| Inside Jennifer's Brain on a Typical Friday Night at the Church |
[Jul. 25th, 2009|02:45 am] |
OK for non-Denverites: The Church is an awesome old-school (early 1900s) Church that has been turned into a nightclub.
My favorite nights to go there are Friday - when it's free for girlies - and Sunday, when it's free before 10:00. On Sundays it's goth/industrial/etc. in both rooms downstairs but on Fridays it's psuedo-goth in the cool room downstairs, hip-hop in the hot/"booty" room downstairs, and house upstairs - where the actual "church" part is.
OK we are talking about Fridays here. There are lots of 20-something kids. This is one of the few places where I get hit on. Yeah.
OK I will admit: as a short shy guy who likes to dress up and is sensitive and has little tolerance for rejection, it's fucking nice to be the rejector for a change! The brave/desperate guys might get in a sentence or two at the most, but that's it! No me interesta!!!
OK so we are talking about all the cutiepie girlies here, because - to me - the guys are irrelevant. And we are talking about the non-goth girlies here - just because this is my blog and that's what I feel talking about!
OMFG, for one thing, these girlies know how to rock the Forever 21 look! They are so hot and so yummy and this totally explains why guys are willing to pay $10 to get in (as mentioned above, we girlies get in free!)!
But - to be totally honest - what I see is:
these girls having sex
these girls giving birth
these girls taking care of their kids (dad or no dad, that is the question)
these girls watching their kids have kids
OMFG I want to be there for at least one of them - preferably one of the goth girlies, because brains are important - later in life, whether it be as "girlfriend," dance partner, sugar daddy, or some combination of all of these roles.
OK to be honest, I do see some dads in all this, but do not think they are the guys I am seeing at the Church on Friday nights.
It seems to me like these to-die-for 20-something Forever-21 girlies like to have babies with the jerks then hopefully hook up with someone responsible once they hit their 30s or so.
What the fuck is up with that?!?!?
OK there I said it: this is what I see, and that's why I keep my distance and my hands off and stick with my dressing up/observer role.
And OK I am a bit tipsy here and perhaps over-generalizing but hey - isn't this what having a psuedo-anonymous blog is all about - expressing one's deepest feelings??!?
OK we are signing off for now! Until next time, I remain yours truly, T/J! |
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| Yes I Am Still Here |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|09:26 pm] |
Wow I just checked and it has been three months since my last post!
Well I still read here all the time but just don't post much. I always say I will post on the weekend but then it comes and I get busy and whooops, too late, it's Monday!
OK well I did manage to lose a few pounds on my diet. Lost about 10 in March, and maybe 3-4 in all of April and May. It was enough that I can fit in 90% of my old clothes, so we are good! A few are still a bit tight and it would be nice to lose a little more but I am not going to obsess over it.
Limiting the sodas to one per day was the easiest, went over limit just a few times - like when I went to my first wedding - time to splurge!!
Keeping up with the daily exercises has been fairly doable as well - I don't do them everyday but average about 5-6 days per week so that is cool! Sometimes if I walk 2-3 miles (like to the bank) I think it's OK to skip that day.
I didn't last long though with the just the cereal and salads rule. For one thing, that's not enough food that I can go out and have a few drinks. For another, I do have job interviews on occasion and we can't be messing around with that.
Did find a job but it may only last a few weeks.
Back to the diet: everytime I told someone about being successful, the weight would jump up the next day, like I jinxed it! So that's one excuse oh I mean reason for not posting much. Another is I simply spend too much time checking out all the cuties on daily_lolita. Then there's twitter and facebook and icanhascheeseburger and slashdot and and and uhg you get the idea.
OK that's enough for now! Think I'll watch an episode of Dexter! OMFG his girlfriend Rita is so cute!!
Thanks for reading and MUAH y'all!!!! |
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| Officially on a diet! |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|05:37 pm] |
Well I gained ten pounds last year due mainly to lack of exercise (I was extremely busy, OK?).
It may not seem like much to some people but I have been cruising at around 135-140 since the early 1990s, so being at 150 makes me feel like the Goodyear blimp! About 80% of my old clothes no longer fit so now that I have more time and not so much money it's time to take action!
I've lost a bit of extra baggage like this before (like the time I gained a few pounds after quitting smoking) so hopefully we can do it again with just some sacrifices and without major suffering.
Here's what I am doing, as of March 1st:- At least one exercise or yoga tape per day. I started somewhat intermittently back in December (got sick there at one point) and have gradually gotten up to doing at least one tape per day. I have a bunch from before and so really don't need to buy any. I posted some details about these tapes earlier and may return with some more info.
- For the most part, I am having cold cereal in the morning and a big salad in the evening only. This is the same as last year's diet except everyday I would have a meal after the salad. So this may seem to be a bit extreme, and I did have some chicken wings (I'm addicted and must get my fix on occasion!) and potato chips on Thursday and Sunday. Planning to have a frozen single serving pizza on Wednesday. I think this will be OK, we will see as we continue the weigh-ins and trying to fit in old clothes again. I mean I do have a big salad with a lot of stuff in it and it really fills me up so I think we are good with just eating more every three days, for now.
- Maximum of one soda per day. I was doing well on the water thing until that last job revealed that they'd lied to me (like the last X number of employers did, but at least they admitted it to my face) so I developed a bit of a "bad girl" attitude and decided to have sodas whenever I wanted. Bad bad bad girl! OK there is no sense punishing my body just because X number of my ex-employers LIED TO ME. Their dishonesty should be bad for their karma not mine! But it's "fun" to be "bad" sometimes and I do like my sweet stuff.
Last week just after starting I hit 147 (small yay!) but we cannot extrapolate those early results. I do think sticking with this regimen will yield positive results in the long run though.
We shall see!!
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| A Funny Thing Happened at the Church Last Night |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|10:44 pm] |
So I went to the Church last night and found a key on the floor! It looked like a car key. A guy nearby said I'd just won a car. Hahaha.
It was in the big room downstairs where Doug and Stephanie bartend so I gave it to Doug.
Then towards the end of the night I saw a guy looking for something. I see this guy out all the time and last week took his photo and introduced myself. He's kind of short (about my size) and shy (I rarely see him talk to anyone) and his name is Mark (ok I suppose it could be Marc but you get the idea).
I asked him if he lost a key and he said "Yes!" So I told him to talk to Doug.
Yay I feel like I did my good deed for the day! |
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| Kay Jewelers Apparently Thinks All Women Are Prostitutes |
[Feb. 16th, 2009|04:06 pm] |
Am I the only one who cringes during Kay Jewelers' commercials when they sing "Every kiss begins with Kay?"
I suppose it's meant as hyperbole, but to me it's just disgusting!
To think that every expression of affection has its roots in jewelry is bad enough, but to assert it starts with jewelry from a specific company is beyond arrogance.
I just don't buy it! We should all boycott Kay Jewelers!!
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| From Desperate Housewives to Essersize Tapes |
[Jan. 24th, 2009|01:57 pm] |
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So I love Desperate Housewives (y Amas de Casa Desesperadas tambien!) but they keep switching it from 8:00 to 9:00 MST and back again. So I started setting the VCR (yes I am old school dearies!) to tape from 8:00-10:00, which means when DH is on at 8:00 I also catch Brothers and Sisters at 9:00.
The original idea was to fast forward through it because the last thing I need is another addictive TV show. But when it came down to it, what the hey, I thought I'd give it a shot.
It wasn't long before I realized that B&S has a great cast. It's kind of like Dallas but set in California and instead of JR we have the Flying Nun. I am not making this up!
So Sally Fields (aka. the Flying Nun) has two daughters, one of which is Calista Flockhart. The other one is Rachel Griffiths, who played Brenda Chenowith (the older brother Nate's wife) in Six Feet Under.
In B&S Rachel plays Sarah Walker, who is trying to get a website startup going. OK I am sorta in the midst of this also so this really catches my eye so to speak. She says she's so busy with trying to get her company going that, among a host of other things (including her daughter, facebook and twitter) she hasn't been exercising.
That's me! I mean the exercising (and twitter) parts, not the daughter (don't have kids and don't want them) and facebook (doin' that, in a manner of speaking) parts.
Uhg, I swear just like her only my fat clothes fit anymore and I feel old and fat and gross! Wow I sometimes find it hard to relate to characters on TV shows (being so unique and all) but this really hit home big time!
That is, that was me until last month, when I "finished" my project. I quickly got back on my exercise tapes. These things rock!
The ones I start with are almost 20 years old! It's a set of three "Super Shapeup Program" videos made by HBO. They feature Sports Illustrated swimsuit models and are set in a spa in Norwich Connecticut. Each is about 45 minutes long and they are very high quality!
The first one is called Stretch and Strength with Elle McPherson. It's very easy but when you're starting out it can be a little challenging and when you finally manage to put it in and do it, it's very effective, because it gets you going.
The second one is Body Sculpting with Rachel Hunter. It's a little bit harder but it's a great second step. The third one is Aerobics with Cheryl Tiegs but I haven't done that one much. As I recall you need to keep taking your heart rate which gets a bit tedious after awhile. Maybe I will give it another shot in a few weeks or so....
After a few weeks of those I got started with the Perfectly Fit series with Claudia Schiffer. There are four of them (PF Buns, PF Arms, PF Abs, and PF Legs) and they are shorter, around 20-25 minutes each. They are a bit more difficult than the HBO/Sports Illustrated ones! I actually got sore the first time I did a couple of them but now I am OK.
The first few weeks I got in three tapes per week but so far this month I've been doing five per week. Just might do six this week and go for seven the next!
I have a bunch of other tapes from back in the day, and am pretty psyched. I remember some of them suck and some are pretty hard but it will be fun to go through them again.
I also have some yoga tapes I should start doing, as I recall they are short (20 mins) but pretty nice. They definitely get the blood flowing and have you ever seen a fat yogi/yogini (yoga person)?
So far I am not seeing any results, weight-wise, but I do feel stronger doing things around the house, and I do feel more energy. I'd been meaning to get started with these for awhile and am so glad I got off my butt.
Yay for essersize!!
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| Just Walk Away |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|02:17 am] |
So I was at the Church (nightclub) and one bartender (Doug) brought in some clean glasses for the other one (Suz).
He put them on the bar in five stacks. The two stacks in back were the tallest, the one in the middle was about two glasses shorter, and the two in front were one glass shorter than the medium-sized one in the middle.
I so wanted to take one glass each off the two tallest and build the two smallest up to match the middle one!
Then we would have three the same size and only two bigger than them. And then (of course!) Suz could take the first two glasses off the tallest two stacks and we would have five stacks the same height! OMFG it would be perfect!!!
I was so tempted but just said "no!"
I looked away but they started haunting me: "even us out, even us out, we could be perfect!!!"
Apparently the few episodes I have seen of Monk have scarred me for life.
Of course altering the stacks (or even admitting that they were haunting me) would be socially inappropriate, and I would probably wind up in the insane asylum.
So I just walked away.
And told a friend in the other room about it, and she totally agreed!
Whew, that was a close call!
"Just walk away, just walk away."
I came back an hour or two later and there were three stacks all the same size. Nice!!!
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| Follow-up to Last Spurt of Posts |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|05:15 pm] |
OK first off I forgot to post about another one of my weird dreams. This one is not particularly gross so I will not do the cut thing as I did before.
I dreamt that I had a baby! But it was kind of gross in that it looked like the baby in David Lynch's movie Eraserhead! Which is to say it had a very strange head and face and a body that looked somewhat shrimp-like. Unlike the Eraserhead baby however mine had a full head of long blonde hair. It wasn't particularly gross but it definitely was a nightmare nonetheless!
Wow a search of google's images yields several results! Let me see if I can post one here:
Yeah that is what my nightmare baby looked like, except it had long blonde hair (wonder where that came from, hahaha) and you could see a shrimp-like body instead of the bandages (diaper?).
On to more beautiful subjects, I'm sorry, but I can't help it, I LOVE that artificeclothing.com site and spent 1-2-3 hours surfing it today (yes I lost track of time!). This has happened before, I thought maybe I was over it, but nooooo!
Here's the link: www.artificeclothing.com/em/shop/Scripts/default.asp go there, marvel at all the beauty, and maybe even buy something!! NOW!!!
Anyway, for whatever reason I just cannot resist the temptation of going to the site and clicking on more beautiful photos of more beautiful models in more beautiful outfits! Hours turn into more hours and WTF, where does the time go?!?! Go figure!! I need to get a life (i.e. a job and more $$$) so maybe I can actually buy something from them and turn this fantasy into reality.
The problem is, which outfits, and what size (surfing too much is bad bad bad for the waistline!)???
I hope it's OK for me to post a few of my favorite photos here. I mean they should take it not as stealing (because I get nothing for people reading this) but as free publicity. It's probably best if I put them below a cut, so here goes:
( Some of My Favorite Photos from artificeclothing.com )
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| How I Learned About Lolita Fashion |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|12:11 am] |
I have been meaning to post this for some time now so here goes.
Somehow I stumbled upon this site: www.artificeclothing.com. I have no idea how I found it but what a great site! I love all the outfits and all the models and all the photos are just incredible!
In the dresses category she has a lot of adorable stuff but most notably a Candy Lolita PVC dress, a Loli Nurse Dress, and a Maeve Gothic Lolita PVC dress. As a fan of Stanley Kubrick movies I had heard the term "lolita" (in 1962 he directed a film by that name) but I was unaware that it was a type of fashion.
Wanting to know what this is all about I looked it up on wikipedia.org and was surprised to learn that a visual kei musician named Mana has his own line of gothic lolita fashions. This guy not only designs but also wears these fashions, and he is simply gorgeous!
Being somewhat new to livejournal and not having many friends, I was getting a little bored with it all until about a month or so ago when I found the daily_lolita community here. (For awhile I tried the egl group but decided I prefer seeing the photos, which is what daily_lolita is all about.) If you watch this group you really need to read it daily, else you fall very far behind and have to spend a bit of time catching up.
It's quite enlightening and entertaining! I am anxious to get back to work so I can afford to buy some of these outfits!! |
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