Seven Deadly Sins

Feel free to complete this on your own blog:

Anger

1. Who did you last get angry with? My sister.
2. What is your weapon of choice? Machine gun
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? Yes.
4. How about of the same sex? Of course.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? Ha, my sister.
6. What is your pet peeve? People who say ‘conversate’.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? I keep ‘em for a long time. You get two strikes with me.

Sloth
1. What is one thing you’re supposed to do daily that you haven’t done in a long time? Read.
2. What is the latest you’ve ever woken up? Noon.
3. Who have you been meaning to contact, but haven’t? Haha, almost everyone I know. I’m horrible about returning phone calls.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? I’m “on-call” at work.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones…)? Oh yes.
6. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? I didn’t.

Gluttony

1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Any beverage I buy from Starbucks.
2. Meat eaters are…: invited to meet me at ‘Texas Land & Cattle Steak House’! Cowtown (Dallas) RAISE UP!
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you’ve had in one sitting/outing/event? Haha, sorry can’t go there.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? No
5. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods or spicy foods? Spicy.

Lust

1. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? No.
2. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice? This may sound weird…but I love men with strong jawlines.
3. Have you ever been made a proposition by a prostitute? No.
4. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? No.
5. Is love at first sight really lust? Yes, I think so.

Greed

1. How many credit cards do you own? Two, soon it will be zero.
2. What’s your guilty pleasure store? Starbucks
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it? Pay off student loans and credit cards, then sit down with my immediate family and decide how we’ll spend/save the money.
4. Would you rather be rich or famous? Rich.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks? Honestly…yes.
6. Have you ever stolen anything? Yes.
7. How many mp3s are on your hard drive? 1,080.

Pride

1. What is one thing you have done that you’re most proud of? Pumped up my savings account
2. What’s one thing you’ve done that your parents are most proud of? I graduated in December 07 with a B.A. in psychology.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life? Earn a Ph.D in Marriage/Family Therapy.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? No.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? No.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Yea, lol.
7. What did you do today that you’re proud of? Too early in the day right now, I just barely woke up!

Envy

1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for yourself? Can’t think of anything.
2. Who would you want to go on Trading Spaces with? No one.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? Keyshia Cole. So I can go into the studio and see if she/I really thinks she/I can sing, or if she/I knows that her/my voice is complete crap.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? I never gathered proof, but I’m pretty confident it’s happened.
5. Have you ever cheated? No

Halfway done with #26

Wow 5 posts in one day!!! This is the last one...I have tasks to work on!

I finally have my federal student loans consolidated, and now I'm working on my private loans. Last month I received a promotion and pay raise at work, so my finances are looking really good. Not only will I be able to pay all of my bills, I'll also be able to put a sizable amount of money into my savings, and still have something left over for personal spending.

This time last year I was BROKE. Not only did I have bills to pay, but I also had to pay for my plane ticket back to Widener for Fall 08. And I had to purchase tickets to come back home during Fall Break, Thanksgiving, and again in December once the semester was over. Then I had to worry about buying school supplies, food for my dorm, and-

*curls up into a fetal position and starts twitching*

That's back in the past, so I'm not going to revisit it, lol.

Now, I'm on track to paying off all of my credit card debt, buying a nice, used car, and purchasing a Macbook- all by the end of this year. Yessss!

*sigh* why me?

This past Thursday night, my younger brother and I decided to go to downtown Dallas and attend a free jazz concert. On our way there, I decided to stop and get some food. To make a long story short (and because I don't have a map to show where the streets and intersections are), I got hit by a person who was trying to zoom through a yellow light at the last second. He hit me on the rear door on the passenger's side.



Considering I don't have a car yet (refer to #32), I was driving my mom's car. We called the insurance company that same night and reported the accident, and now my mom is patiently waiting for a return call.

Thankfully, no one was hurt during the accident, but I still feel bad about the damage to my mom's car. When I called my parents that night, they came to the scene and as I had tears in my eyes, my mom just gave me a hug and said "Don't worry, we can get it fixed. It's just a car, and this is why people pay insurance...because things like this happens."

I hope her car gets fixed soon. I feel like crap everytime I look at the dent :(

Ol' Blue Eyes

I love love love the Rat Pack, but most especially I love Frank Sinatra. I'm not too impressed with celebrities (until they poop gold coins I don't plan to worship them) but Frank is one person I would have loved to meet. He was suave, handsome, charismatic, and a wonderful singer.

How much do I love Frank Sinatra? Well....


I purchased the commemorative stamp that the Postal Service recently released:













For Christmas (2007) all I asked for was this famous image of the Rat Packers playing pool. It is now hanging over my bed:



I'm listening to one of my Sinatra CDs right now, and I also updated #7 on my 101 list. At first, I only committed myself to watching 5 of his movies, because I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to find many of them. Thanks to amazon.com and Blockbuster Online, however, I hope to watch ALL of his films and maybe even own a few. Wish me luck as I try to knock out this list!!

My sister graduated from high school a week ago...

My sister and my parents.

Crossing of #62

I actually created my tickler system a couple of weeks ago, but I have been very lazy lately. Better late than never, right?? Ok, here we go:

It's really easy to get started. All you need is 12 manila hanging folders, which will represent each month of the year. Then you need 31 folders (preferably in a different color than manila). The 12 month folders should have a center tab, and the 31 folders need to have a left tab. This will make it easy for you to thumb through the folders and find any days or months that you need. Below is a picture of my month folders:

Let's say you wanted to start today (June 15th). After you label your month folders, label your day folders 1 through 31. Since June 1 through June 14 has already passed, but those day folders in the July folder. Then put days 15-31 in the June folder. At the end of today, I'll put the "15" folder in July. Below is a picture of folders 15-20, for this upcoming week. Put all of these folders in a hanging folder box to keep everything together.

I got all of my supplies at Office Depot, for less than 40 bucks, and I use this every single day. It has helped me so much with being organized and getting things done in a timely manner. I tried wall calendars, day planners, sticky notes and everything else, but this method has worked very well for me.

I just remembered something that I need to do on June 27th, so I jotted it down on a notecard and placed in the "27" folder. When the 27th arrives, I will check the folder and tend to the business on my notecard. In August I'm going to the circus, so I put my tickets in the August folder. This is extremely convenient because I can document important dates AND keep any necessary files/papers in the same box without any clutter.

So, each morning I check the appropriate folder for that day, and while I'm at work/home/wherever I take care of anything in the folder. At the end of the day when my folder is nice and empty, I file it away in the folder for the next month. yay!

Tough time ahead....

I don't want to get too personal in this post, but I found out that someone dear to me has invaded my trust. This person snooped through something that belonged to me, and really for no apparent reason other than to be nosy. I thought I had found evidence that someone had been snooping but obviously I didn't want to accuse him/her just on a faint suspicion.

Well earlier this evening, this person made a really snide and subliminal comment to me. It was confusing at first, but then later it hit me and I realized that my suspicions were true.

A couple of years ago, I had a similar incident with this person, but once again I sorely lacked evidence and eventually forgot about it, even though my gut was telling me to do otherwise.

Like I mentioned before, this person is very close to me, and I'm trying to decide how best to handle it. This post is really my way of venting my frustrations, I guess. It really bothers me that this person made a comment that blatantly proved he/she had been snooping, and what really insulted me was that this comment was made in front of others. Obviously the other people had no clue about what was behind the comment, but I thought it was awfully brave of that person to say that.

It's times like this that makes me wish I could just leave and start anew in a new life and in a new place. However, this is where I am and where I will be for the next year until I leave for grad school, so I will hold my head up and keep moving along.