Secret embrace

The new Victoria's Secret Secret Embrace Bra is amazing. Helen, Katie, and I have taken before and after pictures to prove it. In the first picture, Helen and I are wearing Victoria's Secret Very Sexy bra. In the second, more superior and cleavage enhanced picture, we are wearing the super comfortable Secret Embrace.

Before:

After:

Trust me, there's a world of difference.

Wendy's Customer Service

Wendy's customer service has definitely gone downhill. We all knew the Junior Bacon Cheeseburger couldn't remain $0.99 forever but now I don't even know what its status is. Sometimes it's $0.99 sometime's it's $1.29. But that's not the point. Well, the point is that they're charging us more for food that is of lesser quality served with lesser service.

When I went home for break it was late at night and my family took me to Wendy's to get something to eat. We were the only car even looking at Wendy's within a 5 block radius. So we order our food and drive the car up to the window to pay/wait for our food...only we pay and they tell us to pull up further - toward the intersection (or what I'll call an intersection since this was in a parking lot). We do and we look around wondering why they made us pull up. Not another car comes while we wait. So the Wendy's person sticks his head out of the window and says "Ok, come back!" We put the car in reverse and get our food handed to us. Thank goodness my dad was as curious as I was because he asked us what that whole shuffling thing was about. "Oh, that's so that the timer doesn't time you waiting here for more than 60 seconds. We'd get in trouble."

WTF. Seriously. If you don't want to get in trouble for having us there for more than 60 seconds, how about you serve us our food within 60 seconds? If I ever get asked to do that at another restaurant I'm not going to do it. THEN we drove away and opened our JBCs only to find there was no lettuce on them. Boo Wendy's.

Last night Mike and Jack brought us Wendy's food. They bought 4 JBCs and a hamburger with only ketchup on it (now dubbed a Lacey burger). What did they receive? 5 Lacey burgers. I love my little but Lacey burgers are no where near as good as the real thing.

Wendy's - I'm disappointed.

Happy

I just got a lovely random IM from Jessica Newman. It's so nice to hear from people you haven't talked to in a while. It makes me feel special that she would take the time to click on my screenname and start a conversation with me. Thanks Jess!

I'm happy. I am happy for now, at least. I'm generally in a good mood. I have some goals for this semester. I want to not procrastinate, make my senior year memorable, be worthwhile, and be social. Those are pretty much the same goals I have every semester but it doesn't usually work. Last semester I definitely didn't work to my potential and, magically (since everything always works out for me), I still came out all right.

Anyway, life is good. I have a job. Come visit me in San Francisco starting in June because I'll be at Google in Mountain View. Yay! A few months ago I posted a job description from google saying it was my dream job for after college...and now here I am living my dream I suppose.

The semester is starting up and there's a lot to look foward to - new classes, booth, greek sing, taking over the world, etc. Also, assuming my HCI project class doesn't actually meet on Mondays (because it's a project class), I will have 4 day weekends this semester. That means I should spend lots of time visiting DC and NC. Heh heh.

I do have some money troubles though. Money troubles only half stress me out. As long as I try to stay on budget and continue trying to convince my handsome, loving boyfriend to give me a credit card. Hehehe.

Anyway, to conclude, life is good. Lacey is back too! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In love, have a job, and realize I'm happy. Happiness is good.

Surprises and spontaneity

I like surprises and spontaneity. So you know what my man gives me? Surprises and spontaneity. Nik decided to come in this afternoon after my Summit classes. He's so good to me. He deals with me teasing him to no end in front of Helen. Heheheh. Tolerance, surprises, and spontaneity - that's what Nik is good for.

Michael...the future serial killer

So I recently put this picture on my desktop:


and I politely told Michael (my little bro) to look at how cute it was. He stole my laptop and left this for me...

Congrats Liz!

I'm so happy for you!

Proposal

So ladies (you know who you are), I propose that we and our significant others if you want, get together before our winter breaks are over. For the most part, we all live within a few hours of each other (except for Jess, sorry) so let's make sure we see each other sometime soon. Liz, it seems like you already have plans for New Years so I guess we'll have to work around you :P I know Laura and I were both planning to go to the NYC bash.
What do you guys think?

Happy birthday Helen!

Happy birthday to my lovely roommate Helen!

Grrr

WARNING TO MEN: Don't read any further in this entry. I promise you'll regret it.

Anyway, you know what I hate? Menstruation. What is wrong with the uterus that it needs to replace its lining every month? Why does it think it's special? I will only really use my uterus maybe 2-4 times in my life and it causes me a big hassle for 1/4 of every month. My brain doesn't feel the need to disintegrate and leak out of my nose to replace itself, so why you, uterus? Why?

I love Caryl

Hey Caryl, I love you. Isn't it cool that I have a blog where I can say that?

:P

Nik, I love you too...I'm just trying to make a point.

Michal is the man.

Nik, before you get jealous, you're my man which automatically makes you the man. Got it? Good.

V8 can be so refreshing

Yum!

So apparently the entire techie world has already heard of this...but I haven't and maybe you haven't either so here it is in all it's hilarity.


http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/

Basically, this guy is trying to sell his Powerbook on ebay and someone tries to scam him. He figures out a way of scamming him back by making him pay hundreds in customs taxes for a "Powerbook" which he actually just made out of a 3-ring binder for the purpose of screwing the guy. He gets a whole following and has cohorts in England taking videos of the delivery address and everything.

I'm glad at least one person has been f***ed with. I'm sick of a few bad guys making life difficult on everyone else.

Cell phones and driving.

I feel pretty strongly about people not using their cell phones while driving. I think it's dangerous and I agree a lot with what this person has to say...
Wired News: Hang Up and Drive

When I'm in the car with people and their phone rings I always try to do the phone searching and answering for them. Some people don't get it and they're like "just get my purse, I know where it is" and they spend until their voicemail picks up searching for them. Maybe they have some sort of top-secret object in their purse. Honestly, I don't care if I find a dildo there as long as I don't die. Let me look for and answer your phone! Everything's more fun that way anyway! It's so much funnier for me to answer your phone "___'s personal assistant, how can I help you?" than if you swerve around the road half paying attention to both the phone and traffic.

You know what else gets me? When people find they need to make a call while they're driving and they refuse to let me even dial the number for them. Again, I'm perfectly capable of finding my way around both a cell phone keypad and their phonebook. Perhaps their work for the CIA is the cause for their reluctance to allow me to scroll to "Mom" but again, I promise not to tell any of your enemies that you have __'s number in exchange for my life.

I know I'm being overly dramatic. The point is that there are a lot of distractions that could be avoided on the road and I'm just trying to minimize them.

Edit on 11/27: Another article that was recently posted to CNN: Police: Text-messaging driver killed cyclist

Theresa954: I was reading my blog the other day
Theresa954: hold on
Theresa954: let me find the entry
lemen17: uh oh, this oughta be good
Theresa954:
lemen17: i've never felt more threatened than when you four or five girls found out i don't recycle
lemen17: i didn't think i'd make it out alive
lemen17: hahaha that was a long time ago
lemen17: but i still feel the same fear when i hold a can of pop around you and your friends

Birthday weekend

I had a wonderful birthday weekend. Nik spent a lot of time making sure I was happy and everything was perfect - he's very sweet. He always has the best intentions in mind...even if he doesn't come through. I feel bad for forcing him to read Harry Potter but at the same time everyone ought to read Harry Potter.

The movie was very good. I do agree with the reviews that they tried to do too much with too little. There's just too much in that book to be able to convey it in 2.5 hours. A lot of storylines started but didn't really conclude...like Hagrid and Madame whatever her name is.

Anyway, back to my weekend. Nik and I got a couples massage. I <3 massages. I <3 Nik for getting me a massage. It was so awesome.

I got a beautiful necklace, a Godiva bear, a pig book, a lovely french dinner, candy, and we played Simpsons trivia. All in all, a good weekend.

Thank you honey. I love you.

Story

So I have a story to tell.

Freshman year I took CSW with Nuveen Marwah. He was tabling for Habitat for Humanity and I saw some pretty nice shirts and asked if I could have one. He said he would give one to me if I got 100% on all of my CSW exams. One by one I got my 100%s and Nuveen got more and more nervous that he would actually have to buy me a shirt. So for the last exam I opened up the email that said my grade and it said 99%. Just so you know, that wasn't even possible because there were 10 questions each worth 10 points with no partial credit or something like that. Anyway, Nuveen cheated me out of the shirt. Very upsetting.

Here we are three years later and I got a mysterious package in the mail. It was from Nuveen and it's a nice, new, long-sleeved Habitat shirt.

Thanks Nuveen. You're a man of your word even if it takes my entire college career.

So I have something I actually want to rant about and I really care about it - commas in lists. It sounds stupid but I'll talk more about it later because roll call for initiation is in 5 minutes.

Also, I got an offer from the Vanguard Group. Woo.

Everyone else

So I've always been somewhat uncomfortable with this whole blogging thing. Reading Paloma's blog made me realize why (again). Everyone seems so much better at it than me. It's like everything in life. Why would I do it when other people have more interesting and/or insightful things to say? Caryl likes to write about political stuff every once in a while. I don't know anything about politics. I don't know anything about anything. It's frustrating to have people tell me I'm smart and talented when I really can't find any evidence to support that. I hate to be down on myself and have you read it, but I constantly find myself surrounded by people who are just generally better than me.

What follows is random thoughts...

A note to you, though I seriously doubt you read: please come back. It kills me that I'm so in the dark. Yes, it's my own fault. No, I don't deserve it but no one knows more than you that I can't deal with this.

It's happening again and I'm scared. Nearly one year later only with different people in every role except for me. Liz, Caryl, and Paloma - help.

Do weird things just happen to me or do I just sabotage myself?

Ben Harper's Roses from my Friends
But it's he who laughs last
Is he who cries first
Sometimes I feel I know strangers
Better than I know my friends
Why must a beginning
Be the means to an end

The stones from my enemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
The roses from my friends

To clarify...

I still appreciate Nik's love and effort. I'm not saying his ulterior motives were evil...I just know he didn't give to charity for the sake of giving to charity.

Anyway, it seems that almost everyone who graduated is lonely. I guess it's even harder than I thought to go from being in college to being in the real world. I suppose I'm making the transition a bit more gradually though.