Summer's Shenanigans

Well, the surf is pretty shitty today...literally...I just received word from The Surfrider Foundation that San Diego got, not 1, not 2, but 3 sewage spills yesterday. And we're not talking about a little trickle of raw sewage leaking in the ocean, more like 2.3 MILLION GALLONS of untreated human waste spewing into San Diego's finest breaks. That is so weak! I propose that when we experiance these all too frequent sewage spills we get to set the CEO's of the offending company(s) up on a dunk tank filled with raw sewage. Perhaps then they can experiance what it's like be a surfer in San Diego. Damn, that is a good idea, I should be the Mayor...

Oh yes, you had better believe I just spent $1800 on a new computer...

I can't wait to get my new iMac! It's being shipped today and I should have it by next week. I was going to get the 1.6GHZ G5 iMac, but it is on back order for 2 - 4 weeks, so I paid the extra $200 for the faster processor. This is my present for working my ass off the last 2 months. Check out these stats:

17-inch widescreen LCD
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
512K L2 cache
600MHz frontside bus
256MB DDR400 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
80GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load SuperDrive

Do I know what half of that really means? No, not really, but I'm sure it's really cool. I do know that the SuperDrive allows me to burn DVD's so perhaps I will become a bootlegger and the computer will end up paying for itself! It also comes with some cool software like GarageBand, where you can actually plug in an electric guitar to your iMac and create music. I also got an extra 256MB of RAM, the airport extreme card, etc. etc.

I love Macintosh!

I've been so stressed out lately. I have literally been working 15 hours a day for the past month and a half. I just want someone to do something nice for me. When I "stopped" working at 1am this morning (I started working at 1:30am, again), I couldn't just sit down and relax, because there is laundry piled to the ceiling. Dishes in the sink. Shit all over the house. Dog needs attention. Fish need to be fed. When my boyfriend got home from the basketball game and I mentioned that we need to separate our laundry because I honestly don't have time to do his laundry any more, it turned into a whole stupid fight because "I never *asked* you to do my laundry". Um, yeah, no shit, but if I don't do it it just piles up and up and up. I only want a little help. Yes, some help with *my* stuff. I want someone to do my laundry, make me dinner, anything. I guess I just want some one to care. Care that I've been working so hard that my weight has dropped to 115. Care that I don't have time to even take care of myself by eating a good meal or something as stupid as not having time to paint my toe nails. Care that I havn't had time to do anything I enjoy like surf or go to the gym in well over a month, if not two. But, no one does....what a bum out...

I want the new titanium Zildjian cymbals!

How hot would these look on my drum kit?! Not to mention the fact that half of my cymbals sound like crap. I found a set of these cymbals on Amazon.com for only $399! The set includes:
~14" Titanium Rock hi hats
~16" Titanium Rock Crash
~20" Titanium Rock Ride
~10" ZXT Titanium Flash Splash
~a 20" Cymbal Bag
~a Zildjian Classic T-Shirt
~ Zildjian Cap
So I figure that I will buy this set when we find a chick bass player and start getting serious about this whole band thing.

Since I answer the customer service emails on my websites, I get some silly and sometimes downright stupid emails from people...Here is one I received today from my Hustler lingerie website:

"My paypal status says the transfer will clear on 20th. If it takes 5 days for me to receive it, how do you garantee that I can wear it for holloween? Can I cancel that payment and pay by credit card? If I knew this, I would never ordered from your site. I need an answer."

Okay, lets do the math on this one. If a Halloween costume ships on the 20th and it takes up to 5 days to arrive, that would mean that your costume would arrive no later then...carry the 2, divided by pi, cross multiple the square root....THE 25th of OCTOBER! That still gives you 6 days until Halloween (unless I missed the news flash that Halloween has been moved to October 24th)! Hurray for math!

For one night at least ;)...Here is my Halloween costume

I'm going to decorate the back to say "Vicious Summer - Featherweight World Champ 2004". I figured a boxer costume would be appropriate since I'm going to be in Las Vegas for Halloween. Last year I was the Queen of Hearts, and somehow, also ended up in Vegas =).

Okay, maybe not, but Alek does have the coolest Halloween decorations that I have EVER seen. Not only are they cool, they are connected to a webcam that YOU can control. You can turn different lights and decorations on and off, as well as zoom and pan the webcam, with the push of a button. *Hilarious*. The only thing I can say is that Alek is the coolest dad ever and Wendy (his wife) must be the most tolerant women on the planet...haha.

Go flip the lights on an off a few times:

http://www.komar.org/cgi-bin/halloween_webcam

While you're there don't forget to vote The Hulk for president!! Damn, the interent is cool...

That would be me! I played Texas Hold 'em Poker with 8 friends last night and CLEANED HOUSE. Moral of the story: Never underestimate the blonde girl with pigtails that's sitting across the poker table from you ;).

Yep, it looked really pretty when the clutch went out...

So, let's rewind to yesterday when Erik and I were driving home from Kealanis (which has the best Hawaiian plate lunches in town, BTW). I was talking about how stoked I am that my car, a '99 Ford Mustang, is paid off and we were also talking about the pro's and con's of down shifting (it's a manual transmission thing).

Pro's: saves your brakes.
Con's: more wear on your clutch.

Well, I'm a down shifter and I was making a point about how I have never had to replace my clutch and I have over 100,000 miles on my car. Well, funny thing, because my clutch went out today. Less then 24 hours after talking about it. Too funny. Luckly I made it off the freeway and into a parking lot, so it wasn't *too* much of a hassle. I did hit a light coming off the freeway, so I had to stop. Ever try to drive your car in 5th gear from a dead stop? Yeah, that was fun.

I know what you're thinking...Why the hell was I out of the house in the 1st place?!(For those of you that don't know me, I rarely ever leave my office, let alone drive my car.) Well, funny you should ask, because that's a whole 'nother story...So, I technically graduated from college almost a year ago and my stupid school (FIDM SUCKS!) still has not issued my diploma. So, after bugging them off and on for a year, I started to get pissed. You know what they told me..."Oooooh, the reason your diploma hasn't been issued is because you have to complete a financial exit interview". Great. Perhaps you should of told me that, oh I don't know, LIKE A YEAR AGO?! So, I drive allllll the way downtown (45 minute drive, each way) and I fill out their stupid paperwork. Halfway through I notice that I am checking off "yes" boxes to questions like, "You know that you must repay your loan", "You understand that if you default on a loan payment, you will be reported to the credit bureau", etc...So, I say, "Um, you guys DO realize that my loan has been paid off for years, right?". You know what they said, "Really? Wow, good for you, we don't need to do the financial exit interview then!" Rad. I'm sooooo glad I drove all the way down there to be dicked around some more! The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing is a total joke, but I'll have to blog about that some other time, because I'M HUNGRY!

p.s. At least I got to ride in my brothers new Hummer H2 SUT

Okay, so my cool desk finally showed up and I LOVE IT. It took freakin' forever to put together (who ever invented the allen wrench should be shot...), but my office kicks ass now. It's way more efficent and there is another desk all set up and ready for when I hire my 1st employee (need a job?!). Also, I had to go to Staples to pick up some mailing supplies and they just happened to be have an awesome sale on chairs, so I picked up this sweet retro sparkly vinyl office chair: to match my new blue glass desk. It was only $29 (marked down from $100)!