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.

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Pogo challenges for 1/28 to 2/3:

Dice City Rollers

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Clear 77 cards this week!

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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.

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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

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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)

Word of the Day:

Quaggy
\KWAGG-ee\
adjective
*1 : marshy
2 : flabby

Example Sentence:
“The alluring creeks and guts that cut through the quaggy archipelago are littered with too much manmade detritus.” (The Baltimore Sun, August 20, 2006)

Word of the Day:

Econnoisseur
One who insists on the highest quality at the lowest price.

Example Sentence:
Being an econnoisseur I bought the ten dollar chilean wine instead of the fifty dollar french.

(I know several of these... Denae being number 1!!)

BSI Christmas Potluck

Part of my job as 'holiday cheer mister' at work involves planning games for the Christmas party. It's pretty funny to watch. On the one handed wrapping game everyone tries to cheat.... that drives me crazy. But the draw on your head game is fun to see peoples artistic skills. :o) The food at the potluck is pretty great as well... of course I would like that part. Ha!!

Kenny had fun with the paper when the game was over. Ha!!
I need to find new games to torture them with next year... so if you have any suggestions please let me know!!!

Word of the Day:

Touchstone
\TUTCH-stohn\
noun
1 : a test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of a thing
*2 : a fundamental or quintessential part or feature

Example Sentence:
The band was a touchstone of the grunge music scene in the 1990s.

The Mom Song

This is AMAZING!! I was laughing so hard I was crying!!

Word of the Day:

Prelapsarian
\pree-lap-SAIR-ee-un\
adjective
: characteristic of or belonging to the time or state before the fall of humankind

Example Sentence:
In the afternoon we walked through the idyllic gardens, noting their prelapsarian charm.

Oh how I love this stuff!!!

There is a diamond in the rough in Lathrop, CA that has the GREATEST SUSHI ON EARTH!!! I'm not joking. It is amazing!!! Everyone I have taken there (that likes sushi of course) tells me so. It is the Mikasa Japanese Bistro.

This is my favorite roll at the moment. The DCS Roll:
The problem is it is way to close to my work.... I can go there for my lunch. A reason I have gained 11 pounds in the last 4 months?? hmmmm. The next time I go with friends I will take pictures of the other rolls. Of course you won't understand with just pictures... so let me know when you want to go and we are so there!! Lunch or dinner!! (just not on a Monday as they are closed)

Word of the Day:

Remora
\rih-MOR-uh\
noun
*1 : any of various marine fishes that have a suction disk on the head by means of which they cling especially to other fishes
2 : hindrance, drag

Example Sentence:
Remoras feed on parasites culled from their host's skin and scraps from their host's meals.

Christmas at the James'

Christmas at the James house was a little different this year.

My poor father woke up and didn't feel good so he decided to check himself into the hospital ER. Come to find out he had two kidney stones. Poor dad. He came home at noon when I drove to Manteca to pick up his meds. Other than my poor dad being in his room almost all day we had a good time. My brother and his kids were there the whole day and that was really nice.
Jack got something he liked here... hahaha.
And here he got some new clothes from Grandma Buttons (my mom). He decided to put them on right away. He even put on his new shirt and pants and then realized he forgot his new Lego Indiana Jones underwear and took his pants back off to put them on. He likes new clothes. He cracks me up!!
One of the brief moments my dad made it out of bed. The dog was still taking care of him though.
And she wasn't far from mom either.
Me.
Dinner. Yum!!

My stash!!!
It was a very nice day... despite my dad not being in the room. Looking forward to next year!!

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.

And they were right....

So everyone tells me that with how much I LOVE food and all that I eat people are amazed that I don't weigh 600 pounds... and if I didn't go to the gym, that I probably would. And they were right. I haven't been to the gym in 4 months and have gained 11 pounds. I officially weigh more today that I ever have in my entire life. This does NOT make me happy.... sigh.
I sure hope my upcoming math class isn't as difficult as the History and Economy classes I took last semester so that I can have some time and energy to go back to the gym!!! God knows I can't control my eating..... so SOO sad. :o(

Pogo Challenges for 1/7 to 1/13

Pogo challenges for 1/7 to 1/13:

Dominoes


Domino Effect Badge
Win 10 games this week!


Stellar Sweeper


XLR-8 Badge
Get 30 Jackpot Spins this week!

Word of the Day:

Bifurcate
\BYE-fer-kayt\
verb
: to divide or cause to divide into two branches or parts

Example Sentence:
The proposed restructuring would bifurcate the company.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

My Dad's Birthday dinner this year was a quite one... as a matter of fact I don't even have pics of my dad opening his presents (My mom does though... no worries). However, I do of course have pictures of the food. Because it is one of my favorites!!!! Hooray for dad's birthday dinner!!!

Before:

After:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!

New Bible!!

So if you remember... my poor old Bible fell apart. Literally fell apart. So on Friday I went to the Turlock Christian Book Store with Courtney and her sister Kaitlin and I picked up a new one. I'm not entirely sure I am sold on it being black... but I do love the cute detail it has on it. And it is packed with maps and extras. LOVE IT!!! I'm happy now. :o)

Word of the Day:

Simulacrum
\sim-yuh-LAK-rum\
noun
1 : image, representation
*2 : an insubstantial form or semblance of something : trace

Example Sentence:
The magazine is still in publication, but, since the change in ownership, it is but a simulacrum of its former self.

Word of the Day:

Undulant
\UN-juh-lunt\
adjective
1 : rising and falling in waves
*2 : having a wavy form, outline, or surface

Example Sentence:
The undulant foothills gradually give way to the craggy highlands for which Scotland is celebrated.

Word of the Day:

Screwvenir
anything that you keep (whether stolen or given to you) from someones house after you've slept with them.

Example Sentence:
Laura didn't really like doing it with Chip so much, but she did nab a copy of Time Magazine with Mick Jagger on it from his house as a screwvenir.

Word of the Day:

Wisenheimer
\WYE-zun-hye-mer\
noun
: smart aleck

Example Sentence:
"Everybody's a comedian," quipped Lisa, unperturbed, when some wisenheimer in the back row interrupted her speech with a clever comment.

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