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Spring Break 2009 Super Badge

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MONOPOLY Here & Now




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Spring Break 2009 Super Badge
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Trivial Pursuit Daily 20

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Make the goal on 7 daily or calendar quizzes this week!

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Cribbage

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Thousand Island Solitaire

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Pogo Challenges for 2/18 to 2/24:

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Euchre

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Win 3 games by 2 or more tricks this week!

Mahjong Garden

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Complete 25 animals this week!

Pogo challanges for 2/11 to 2/17:

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Shoot the moon 2 times this week!

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Happy Birthday Mahina!!

In January was my friend Mahina's birthday. So a few of us girls got together to celebrate. We met up for dinner at Raw Sushi Bistro in Stockton. Here we are trying to take a self photo:
Didn't quite work... let's try again:
That's better. Starting from me and going clockwise, Kea (Mahina's sister), Angela, MaySue, Mahina & Kendra.

Here is 'some' of our food... yes... we had more. We are good eaters. This is one reason we are such good friends. HA!!!

That's my girl!!!
Mahina had a few birthday drinks. :o)
And she got a free birthday dessert!! Yum!!!

Happy '29th' Birthday Mahina!!
From your '110 pound' friend!!
Love ya!!!

Bless his little heart

From my sweet little nephew Logan:

Busy Bee!!!

I am such a pack rat. Maybe even a hoarder. Boo to me!! So this weekend I have been going through my closet and drawers and getting rid of anything that I own that is over ten years old or stained, ripped, etc. Thus far I have gotten rid of six black garbage bags full of crap. Two bags of shoes, three bags of clothes and one bag of other stuff. And really... I could do a lot more. I feel like getting rid of everything I have. But I don't' really have the money to replace all of that at the moment. So it is what it is for now. It sure looks good though!!! I'm feeling pretty accomplished.

Motel 6 on Water....

Recap:
1 Cruise Ship
5 Days
1 Stop in Mexico
4 White Girls
2500 Black People
= the annual Fried Chicken SuperBowl Cruise

We made the best of it.

Sorry to my poor friends whom I subjected to that. I hope you will still be my friend!!!

Pogo challanges for 2/4 to 2/10:

Pogo challanges for 2/4 to 2/10:

Checkers

Check Mates Badge

Win 10 games this week!

Squelchies

King Squelchies Badge

Remove 4,000 Squelchies this week!

Groundhog Day 2009 Super Badge

Win 5 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PST January 28 and 12 AM PST February 11!

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Cruisen Day 6

And it's over... just like that. At the crack of dawn practically. We will be arriving in San Diego at 8am and off the ship we will go. I'm thinking we will grab a bite to eat before we take Jennifer back to the airport for her to catch her flight back to Texas. Then Courtney, Denae and I will start the loooonnnnggggg drive back home. Jennifer will probably beat us to Texas before we get home. Ha! I'm SURE I will be exhausted and will need a few days off to recover from my vacation... but back to work Tuesday morning for me. Yuck. I'm excited to see all of our fun pics though!! Soon to follow!!!

Cruisen Day 5

Our last full day at sea!! :o( Time to get in all of the things we keep putting off.... and probably more math for me. Boo math!! Maybe I'll check out how much it is to get a pedicure on board... hmmmmm.....

Cruisen Day 4

Today we will be in Cabo!!! Woot woot!!! I have never been to Mexico before. So I'm really looking forward to it. I wish we would be here longer... our short little excursion is only from 8am to 4pm. We haven't decided what we will do yet. We may snorkel, shop, eat, walk around, all of the above, not sure. I'm not taking a lot of cash though so that I can keep myself in check. Ha!! After 4pm we will be back on the boat and probably taking showers before our 8pm dinner time. We may even dress up this night.... also still up for discussion. :o)

Cruisen Day 3

Our first full day at sea!! I'm sure a lot of lounging around will be involved. There is also the indoor mall and casino's to check out. The pool is supposed to have a waterslide at the pool and the very top deck of the ship is for topless tanning.... which I fully plan on trying at least once. When in Rome!! haha!! Sadly I will need to work in Math and so form of gym exercise. I can't justify laying around and eating all day.... wait... I do that now... hmmm. Since this ship is like a floating town I'm sure we will be busy all day. :o)

Cruisen Day 2

I'm hoping to not wake up too early today... it's not easy sleeping in a hotel though. So we will see. I believe us girls are going to be hitting a grocery store to pick up some wine (you can take one bottle per person on board the ship) and any other soda's and snacks we may want. Not sure if we will load up on snacks to tide us over until we board or if we will grab lunch somewhere. We board at 4pm and Tina will be taking us to the ship. She is so sweet. She will also be moving my car (well, Courtney's) around her condo parking lot so that we don't have to pay the $14 a day for parking. I'm not sure how long boarding will take... then we are off to find our rooms and all that fun stuff... and then I'm sure we will be exploring the ship and get our bearings. Will, I'm sure the other girls will get their bearings... I will be lost the whole time... Ha!!! I also need to remember to go it easy on the free food... yikes!!!

Cruisen Day 1

I do not want to be in Tracy on my birthday. At all. So my dear friends Courtney, Jennifer and Denae and I are going on a cruise!!! After we have my favorite breakfast of stuffed french toast my mommy is going to make for me, we will be on our way!! Denae and I should be leaving my house around 10am - 11am-ish and head to Hilmar to pick up Courtney. Then on our way to San Diego and the airport to pick up Jennifer. We will probably head to the hotel to check in, then hook up with my friend Tina for dinner.
So for the next few days... I will be posting our tentative schedule. Its too expensive to text or call while internationally roaming fees apply... so hopefully this can tide you over till we get back and can post with pictures!!

30 & Flirty?? More like halfway to 60!!

Soooo.... Today is my 3oth Birthday. I am NOT happy about this.

For several reasons:
I am fatter than I ever have been in my entire life.
I have never been never married.
I've never had children.
I have an unstable, low paying job.
I don't have a college degree.
I have no money or savings.
I still living with my parents.
My body is falling apart and I'm always in pain.

Truly I am just pathetic. I AM that pathetic, fat spinster women that lives with her parents and has a crap load of cats. Except I hate cats. How sad is it that I'm only a cat away.... So no. I don't feel 30 and flirty. I feel halfway to 60.

Happy flippen birthday to me.

Pogo Challanges for 1/28 to 2/3

Pogo challenges for 1/28 to 2/3:

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Groundhog Day 2009 Super Badge

Win 5 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PST January 28 and 12 AM PST February 11!

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It's Birthday Time Again from Paul Piazza

It’s Birthday Time Again

Stacey James Carpet Assistant,
Gets Stuff Done in Just an Instant,
Has to Work with Carpet Slime,
Gets Stuff Done Right on Time;

But Now She is 30 and is Going Away,
Yep On a Cruise but back Someday,
To Do a Bunch More Carpet Stuff,
Cause She Misses Us a Great Big Bunch;

Now Please Behave While on that Cruise,
Be Sure Not to Drink Too Much Booze,
And Please Don’t Jump Over Board,
While Missing all us Carpet Whores;

So What More Can I Say This Day,
Have a Happy Birthday as You Go
On Your Way!

Piazza & Company. Inc.

A Birthday Poem 2008 from Paul Piazza

A BIRTHDAY POEM

Stacey James Blackwood She's Our Friend,
Helps with Carpet Stuff Until Days End,
Doesn't Complain at Least to My Face,
Most Likely Thinks I'm Lost in Space;

But that's Alright Cause She is Cool,
Works Really Hard for us Carpet Fools,
Comes in Early, Goes Home Late,
I Hope She Doesn't Have a Tragic Fate;

She's Been A Joy to Work With Here,
At BSI for us Carpet Queers (not like in gay),
We Sales Slime are a Sorted Bunch,
But Stacey Still Goes and Gets us Lunch;

So What More can be said of Our Friend,
We Hope She's Here Until the End,
A Great Big Happy Birthday to You,
We Love you Stacey, Thanks for All you Do !

by PPiazza & Company Inc.

This is where I will be next Saturday!!

16th Annual KNBR 680 Giants FanFest

Saturday, February 7, 2009

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at AT&T Park

Single Game Tickets will be on sale at FanFest!

This FREE event is open to the public.
Come on out to AT&T Park and meet your 2009 Giants!

FanFest will feature the KNBR live broadcast stage at homeplate, providing fans the opportunity to watch the broadcast from any Lower Box or Club Level seat in the ballpark. Fans will once again have the opportunity to go "behind the scenes" with self-guided tours of both the Giants and Visitors clubhouses, batting cages, dugouts and press box.

There will be an expanded Kids Zone, interactive games and activities throughout the ballpark and access to the field's warning track. Giants players, coaches, broadcasters and alumni will sign autographs and pose for photos througout the event, participate in Q&A sessions, and be interviewed live on KNBR, with the broadcast aired throughout the ballpark.

SCHEDULED TO ATTEND(Subject to change without notice.)
Jeremy Affeldt Bruce Bochy John Bowker Emmanuel Burriss Matt Cain Orlando Cepeda Will Clark Jesse English Tim Flannery Kevin Frandsen
Tito Fuentes Mark Gardner Alex Hinshaw Steve Holm Bob Howry Travis Ishikawa Randy Johnson Roberto Kelly Mike Krukow Duane Kuiper
Carney Lansford Fred Lewis Tim Lincecum Jon Miller Joseph Martinez Osiris Matos Pat Misch Bengie Molina Ivan Ochoa Kevin Pichardo
Edgar Renteria Dave Righetti Dave Roberts Ryan Rohlinger Aaron Rowand Sergio Romo Billy Sadler Brian Sabean Jonathan Sanchez Pablo Sandoval Nate Schierholtz J.T. Snow Henry Sosa Jack Taschner Eugenio Velez Brian Wilson Ron Wotus Keiichi Yabu Barry Zito

100,000

I bought my car when it had 9 miles on it. And I was the one that test drove it and put 3 of them on there..... and now look at her... rolling over 100,000. Sigh.

This was coming home from work on January 15, 2009 on 11th Street coming into town.

No math on the cruise...

So I won't be doing any math on the cruise. Which is nice!! But the reason for that is because I'm a loser and had to drop the class because I couldn't keep up with it. And there are no late starting classes this semester that I need to take. So I'm out $250.00 and a whole lot of time so far this year. My life just gets better and better.

Like I wasn't even here...

If I die today, or in the near future or whatever, it will be like I was never here. There is nothing that I have to leave behind. No belongings to distribute, no estate to settle, no husband to miss me at home, no kids to be sad I'm not there. I don't even have a paper trial that connects me to anyone or anywhere except the same address I have been at for 30 years. Nobody's life would change, no one's routines would have to be altered, no one would notice I was gone.... I just wouldn't be there anymore. It would be like I was never even here in the first place.

Pogo Challenges for 1/21 to 1/27

Pogo challenges for 1/21 to 1/27:

WordJong

WordJong Winter Badge

Earn 50 WILD tiles this week!

Yahtzee Party!

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Pathetic

So let's see here.

Twenty years ago I was about to turn ten. I lived with my parents. I was at my peak weight (like I seriously plumped up) (hitting puberty will do that too you... so I like to tell myself). No money. I was going to school. Of course not married or had kids... Mommy did my laundry and made all of my food.

Ten years later I was about to turn twenty. I lived with my parents. I was at the peak weight of my teens. I had a crappy job. No money. I was going to an JC in Livermore. I wasn't married. I had no kids. Mommy did my laundry and made all of my food.

Today I'm about to turn thirty. I still live with my parents. I am at my peak weight of my life. I have an unstable, low paying job. I am so broke. I'm going to a JC in Modesto. I'm not married. I have no kids. Mommy does my laundry, makes all of my food and packs me a lunch every day.

Three decades and I am EXACTLY where I was. I have done nothing. I haven't accomplished anything. I haven't gone anywhere. Three decades. I am the ONLY person I know that still lives with my parents, isn't married, doesn't have kids, doesn't live away from home. The ONLY one.

I am SOOOOOO sick of everyone giving me the bull shit line about how if they could they would still live at home too. BULL SHIT I say!!! You would not!!! You would NOT choose to be 30 years old living with your parents!!! You are all liars!!! Living with your parents in your early 20's is one thing. To be in your 30's and live there is completely different!!! Guess what, I WANT to do things like do my own grocery shopping. I WANT to do my own laundry. I WANT to pay the PG&E bill. Do you know why? Because that means I HAVE A LIFE and I'm part of the living!!!! Living at home like I'm 8 years old is not a life anyone should want at 30 years old. And if you do, you are really stupid. It's like being a prisoner. Let me strip you of all of your independence, tell you what to do, when to do it and how, tell you what to eat and how much, then turn out the lights for bed. I can get a college education in prison too. At least there I wouldn't have bills to pay on top of everything else. It is not as great as you people seem to think it is. So don't tell me how great I have it and how you would be doing what I am if you could because that is bull shit!!!! Go check yourself into a prison for thirty years then tell me how great it is. Tell me how great it is to know that your life has slipped away and you only have a few years left to try to have children (which if you are me, you don't know if you can anyways). Tell me how great it is to see everyone around you grow up and have families and good jobs and lives and you still be in the SAME DAMN PLACE you have been for your whole life. Don't tell me how I could change things and I bring this upon myself. You think I haven't tried?? You think I haven't moved across the country before to do that?? You think I haven't tried to make relationships work and get married etc?? You think I haven't tried to get a good and stable job?? You think I haven't tried to move out with friends?? You think I haven't tired to move out on my own?? Do you really think I though to myself you know, I want to live my parents for the rest of my life and I'm going to do nothing and make sure that I have no life. Give me a fucking break.

Just once I would like someone to be like you know what, your life and situation IS pretty pathetic. Because it is. And I would like them to say, you know, I really thought you would do more with your life. What a waste. And I would thank them. Because at least they would be honest and not lying to my face giving me bull shit lines about how great I have it and they would switch places with me if they could. Don't try sell me your fucking lies here. I'm not buying them.

Word of the Day:

Flavorgasm
when eating food so good that you let out an involuntary moan, usually the first bite; also as an adjective - flavorgasmic

Example Sentence:
I ate this unbelievable steak yesterday. I swear when I ate the first bite I had a total flavorgasm.

(Ummm yes. This is real. LOL)

Mr. Math

School has offically started. And I think my teacher must be in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the oldest teacher still teaching. He said his goal is to teach in 7 decades... he only has two years to go to reach is goal. Last semester he had his 6th heart surgery and only missed two days of class... so we have NO excuses not to be there. Great. He's one of those. We got to hear all sorts of stories about him. Which was a nice break from math... but I've determined he must be in his mid 80's. What happens if he dies during this sememster?? I'm postitive they won't refund our money or our books. Especially since I didn't buy them from the school. And I don't plan on going to MJC next semester... this old guy better make it through this semester!!!! Also, if you text in class you get an automatic zero on the next quiz. If your phone rings during class your grade will drop a half a letter. You can NOT make up or take early any quizzes, tests or homework. I told him I will be gone for two classes for the cruise and asked if there was anything I could do... and he was like well that is two of your three you can miss without your grade dropping. Too bad for you. Good grief. Thanx for working with me grandpa.

On the upside, he does present fun stories to make math relatable and he is funny. So that is good. Regardless I'm stressed. I have a lot to do to not get behind... which I already am because I haven't taken math this decade and don't remember a thing!!! I'm in trouble....

Word of the Day:

Kickshaw
\KICK-shaw\
noun
1 : a fancy dish
*2 : a showy trifle

Example Sentence:
The shop was filled with refrigerator magnets, back-scratchers, snow globes, and other kickshaws, all adorned with images of smiling pigs.

Raggedy Old Lady

My pajamas are really sad. When I go to bed I look like a 48 year old soccer mom. I wear worn out, holey shirts and ripped up, holey, worn out shorts and pajama pants. The fabric on all of my jamies is so old you can literally see through them. It's embarrassing and uncomfortable. So if you were need to get me a birthday present and couldn't come up with anything... pajamas. I need pajamas. I live in these things so they would be put to good use. Trust me.

Word of the Day:

Exculpate

\EK-skull-payt\

verb
: to clear from alleged fault or guilt


Example Sentence:

The lawyer claimed to have recently discovered evidence that would exculpate her client.

Is it wrong to want this??

I saw it on an infomercial. It's called a Bump It. You can check out the video and order it for me on Big Happie Hair. :o)

Pogo Challenges for 1/14 to 1/20

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Everyone Wins Bingo

Gigantic Acorn Badge

Call 400 bingo's this week!

Tri-Peaks Solitaire

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Get a 10-card streak or better 8 times this week!

Word of the Day:

Hebetude
\HEB-uh-tood\
noun
: lethargy, dullness

Example Sentence:
The hebetude and ennui displayed by such bright students was just one sign that they were not being sufficiently challenged in their classes.

New Years Eve 2008

This year I rang in the New Year at Jenn and Anthony's home.
Courtney and I entertained ourselves by taking a lot of pictures and secretly filling Jenn & Anthony's empty stockings with random things around the house.


Seriously... we took a lot of pictures. Krista joined us for a few....
As did Jenn:
And Katie:
Happy New Year!!!
Cheers!! (Yes I'm the diet dr. pepper)