1.) What is your secret?
I'M ADDICTED TO (RED) STUFF *gasp* no more secret >.<

2.) If you could have plastic surgery, what would you have done?
vacuuming blubbers

3.) Do you have a completely irrational fear?
spiders and needles

4.) What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moments?
i become REEEDDD in the face. i think.

5.) Are you a pyromaniac?
i love staring at it, and starting controlled little fires...

6.) Do you have too many love interests?
yes. i'm sorry computer... the bed calls to me.

7.) Do you know anyone famous?
no, but apparently i'm distantly related to one. mom's cousin from her uncle's 1st marriage

8.) Who would play you in a movie?
Sandra Oh. :D

9.) Do you know how to play poker?
Crappily.

10.) What do you carry with you at all times?
Cell, Chapstick, Wallet

11.) What do you miss most about being a kid?
the Carefree-ness. no stress, and that time seemed to stand still

12.) Are you happy with your given name?
nyeh.

13.) How much money would it take to get you to give up the Internet for one year?
however much it takes to pay off my car, give me Annual Passes to ALL amusement parks in CA, pay off all the gas I'll use from driving, and housing/food/shopping money during the trips.

14.) What color is your bedroom?
Tan walls, white ceiling

15.) What was the last song you were listening to?
"Straightjacket Feeling" - All American Rejects

16.) Have you ever been in love?
yup

17.) Which musical instrument do you wish you could play?
piano... and yet, i am not willing to learn/practice. i wish i could one day wake up and do it perfectly.

18.) Favorite fabric?
Cashmere

19.) Something you love and also hate?
People

20.) What's the one language you want to learn?
hmmm... Latin. Just cause there are so many laguages with Latin roots

21.) How do you eat an apple?
1.wash
2. bite
3. chew
4. swallow
5. repeat steps 2-4 until core is reached

22.) Have you ever pierced your body parts?
by myself? no way. but the lady at Claire's peirced my ears for me :D

23.) Do you have any tattoos?
no, but i kinda want one.

24.) Do you drive a stick?
wish i could.

25.) What's one trait you hate in a person?
hypocrisy

26.) Do you consider yourself materialistic?
yeah. can't deny that.

27.) What do you cook the best?
spam with fried egges and rice

28.) Favorite writing instrument?
the pens that switch over to pencils ^.^

29.) Do you prefer to stand out or blend in?
Depends on the settings

30.) Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?
yyyup~

31.) What's one car you will never buy?
just one? cause i was gonna say, "most american brand cars"

32.) What kind of books do you like to read?
mystery, sci-fi

33.) If you won the lottery, what would you do?
like the mega-mil? i'd pay off the house and cars and any other debts, shove enough into savings to pay for college til i recieve my Masters, renovate the house, and then split the rest with mom to do with whatever we want. for my half, i'd open a platinum (or diamond or whatever) savings account so i could collect mucho interest :)

34.) Burial or cremation?
cremation and then burial. (i don't want my family to have ot carry around a vase with a dead person inside... that's just -to me- very disturbing)

35.) How many online journals do you read regularly?
nooooot many.

36.) What's one thing you're a loser at?
sports.

37.) Do you cry in front of your friends?
yes.

38.) What's one thing you like to do alone?
drive around the city

39.) Are you a giver or a taker?
i'd like to think i'm more of a giver. but i enjoy taking too.

40.) When's the last time you cried?
last week ish?

41.) What is your favorite communication method?
F2F

42.) Do you think you're cute?
uhhh.... not really...

43.) Favorite type of music?
rock, indie, alternative

44.) Are you a workaholic?
if given the chance, i'm pretty sure i'd become one. then again, what work are you talking about?

45.) What are your kids names?
if in the future i have my own, they'll be named: g- Trinity, b- Christopher

46.) Do you like to shop?
YES. >_<

47.) What is your hidden talent?
i have yet to discover it.

48.) Would you die to save the life of someone you deeply love?
if i had to i will, but at the same time, i don't want to because i don't want to burden them with the guilt that i died because of them.

49.) Are your friends married or single?
some's one, and the rest are the other.

50.) Do you own a Bible?
yeah, against my wishes.

51.) Do you play chess?
i refuse to learn.

52.) Do you like the rain?
depends where i wanna be that day.

53.) Do you like thunderstorms?
who am i with, and where am i?

54.) What's your favorite website?
hmm. WEEWORLD! lol. i don't know. i go all over the place. most visited? Gmail/Google.

55.) What was your weight when you were born?
i ... actually don't know the answer to this.

56.) What time were you born?
five-pee-em

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Do Pretty People Earn More?

Looks Do Matter at Work
By Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com writer

You know the woman -- the one who could wear a paper bag to a board meeting and still manage to look both beautiful and perfectly professional. As if it weren't annoying enough that she maintains her obnoxiously flat abs by lifting doughnuts to her mouth, it turns out your gorgeous co-worker may also be out-earning her less genetically-blessed colleagues.

Good looks can have a real impact on workers' bank accounts, according to research by Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle published in the Journal of Labor Economics. Attractive people earn about 5 percent more in hourly pay than their average-looking colleagues, who in turn earn 9 percent more per hour than the plainest-looking workers.

This means if an average-looking person earned $40,000, their prettiest co-workers would make $42,000 while their least attractive colleagues brought home just $36,400.

Plain-looking workers may also receive fewer promotions than those awarded to their more striking contemporaries.

Steven D. Spitz, D.M.D. and owner of cosmetic dentistry firm Smile Boston, said he once had a client who wanted his assistant to get veneers, and was even willing to pay for the dental work -- as long as the assistant asked for it.

"He said this was a woman who was really good at her job and he was moving up (within the organization), but he couldn't take her with him because her teeth were so bad," Spitz said.

The assistant never came in for the dental work, and Spitz said he didn't know what became of her career.

Are pretty people just more talented?

It remains uncertain whether the handsomest people translate their good looks into higher productivity, but students do consistently give better-looking professors higher evaluations than they give their less comely teachers, according to research by Hamermesh and Amy Parker at the University of Texas in Austin.

Still, many experts warn against assigning too much value to beauty in the workplace, arguing that even if your good looks do get you in the door, they may not get you much farther.

"A person can be breathtaking in person and destroy that within the first five minutes by acting in a way that seems superior or behaving in a way that is lewd or provocative," said Francie Dalton, President of Dalton Alliances Inc., a consulting practice providing executive coaching to C-level clients.

"Although I very firmly believe that looks are the first thing one notices, I am not convinced that looks trump things like competencies, interpersonal skills and other factors," she said.

Richard St. John, author of "Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky, and RICH," says he's so unconvinced of the connection between good looks and competence, he often chooses to hire the "visual underdog."

"I'm not saying looks won't help you be successful at getting a date," St. John said. "I'm saying looks won't help you be successful in other areas of life."

Unfair, but legal

Unlike religion, national origin or disability, discrimination based on looks is legal in most jurisdictions, said James McDonald, Jr., managing partner of the Irvine office of employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP.

Washington, D.C. and Santa Cruz, Calif. are two of the only municipalities with laws explicitly protecting workers against discrimination based on physical characteristics or personal appearance, he said. Still, that hasn't stopped workers from launching unsuccessful lawsuits.

Fortunately, there's -- literally -- more to attractiveness than meets the eye. Researchers Markus Mobius and Tanya Rosenblat found that confidence makes up 20 percent of perceived attractiveness.

To ensure the image you're portraying is a confident one, be sure your posture doesn't betray your nervousness. Keep your back straight, head high and make eye contact with your associates.

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so today, i had to take my gramps to Ralphs to pick up his medicine.

i parked next to one of those shopping-cart holder things.



while i was inside,

some bitch ran her shopping cart into my car.



3 people saw her run away immediately.




keep in mind, i got my car only a month ago.




it doesn't even have a license plate yet.



the cart holder was as big as a car space.




HOW the FUCK did she MISS IT?!





i'm just lucky the rubber hit the car.

but the wax is still scratched off at the area.


if only i got out of the store sooner.

i would've caught her, followed her to her car



and keyed the crap out of it.



and when she asks "what the hell did you do that for?!"

i'd say,

"you run your cart into my NEW car, and i key the equivalent amount of damage into yours."


people like her need to be wiped off the face of the earth.

or at least, just abandoned somewhere away from society.

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ok. so, my mom has this co-worker that she hates, and well, she's selling her 03 civic for $11k. i, needed a car.

so today, my mom told her that we were interested, and told her to hold up a little bit to ask if i wanted that car.

my mom calls her back TEN MINUTES LATER, and the stupid idiot was already at the dealers, trading in the car.

you know, if you know WHY the person is really interested in your car, you'd should be at least willing to you know... help us out.

fucking bitch. she KNEW that we needed that car. but NOOOOOO. fucking douchebag.

she's one of those people that piss you off without even trying.

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How to Shorten "The Kissing Disease" Mononucleosis
By: Allan N. Spreen, MD, The Nutrition Physician

What's been going on? In the last three months I've personally run into three teenagers with mono, and I know of a fourth, all severe enough to lay them up for a minimum of several weeks. Two are high-level athletes.

Mono, or mononucleosis, also called "the kissing disease" due to its transmission via infected saliva, isn't as funny as the name implies. The virus that causes it (Epstein-Barr, or EBV) can be transmitted by less exciting routes, such as sneezing and coughing, and the consequences can be really unfun. Besides the standard swollen glands and sore throat (which can be really severe), the long-lasting weakness and fatigue that follow can be a trying experience.

What's even neater is that we're told "there's no cure" by the hallowed halls of modern medicine. Go home, get plenty of rest, drink plenty of liquids, and wait.

That's cool...what a way to start summer vacation.

Occasionally, the doc will give a drug called acyclovir, which is an anti-viral agent. I've never found any studies on mono and this drug, nor seen it appear to help much, but maybe it does. At least gives the doc something to do.

However, I've treated this nasty little problem before, and I think there are some definite things you can do to shorten the life span of this bothersome pest (rarely is mono really serious...just a bummer). I used to run the medical clinic at a private school and had plenty of chances to observe the effects of this illness, with and without "health nut" efforts to stop it.

The first thing I tried (and would always try) was vitamin B-12 as an injection. This totally innocuous effort, shunned by conventional medicine as corny and useless, has been amazingly effective for mono in my opinion. I give it daily for at least three days, a week if necessary, and have seen kids bounce back far faster than without it. Placebo? Maybe so, but who cares? There's no drug or stimulant involved, and no toxicity. If a shot is just out of the question, I'd use B-12 supplements under the tongue (called SL, or sub-lingual form).

Appetite can be down, and absorption may be worse, so highly nutrient dense food is important. The easiest way to get that down is using the "green foods," such as spirulina, chlorella, barley green, or other similar products. They require no digestion to speak of to be absorbed and are low-volume.

There is an antiviral agent that has a lot of study behind it, though it's not embraced by most conventional types (it's also antifungal, antibacterial and somewhat antiparasitic!). It's called olive leaf extract, and I've become a serious proponent of this remarkable compound. I use two capsules three times a day for most any infection. The stuff is strong enough, however, that it also can destroy the "good guy" bacteria we need in our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts, so augmenting with acidophilus supplements before meals and bedtime for a week or so after stopping the olive leaf extract is a must. I never use olive leaf for long periods.

For some reason I don't really understand, a mixture of magnesium and malic acid really helps with generalized fatigue of many causes. Too much magnesium can cause loose stools, so you don't want to overdo this, but I use a ratio of 100 milligrams of magnesium with 300 milligrams of malic acid three times/day. There's a supplement called Super Malic that has this ratio, but I'm sure there are others.

Vitamin C is a must. It's amazing stuff against infection, but it's a bit weak, so you have to be aggressive. I use 1-2 grams (1 gram=1000 milligrams) every HOUR until the person feels better. Such doses can cause diarrhea after a few hours if you're not sick, but when ill the body just soaks the stuff up. That's even one way you can evaluate how sick you are...by how much C your body tolerates. Adding citrus bioflavonoids, 1000 milligrams every few hours, makes the C more effective.

Another herb that can help, used intermittently, is echinacea. Capsules taken 2-3 times/day seem to help.

To strengthen the body as fast as possible, a complete B-complex supplement makes sense, as these nutrients are intimately involved in energy production in the body and work together in their biochemical reactions. If you want to cover all the bases (well, not all, but another one) alpha lipoic acid (ALA), though not cheap, can be very helpful (sick or not). It's the only antioxidant that's both water- and fat-soluble, and I also consider it an anti-aging nutrient (but that's just me).

So, don't just lie in bed if mono strikes (and don't just watch someone else lay there). You're not helpless in this situation, so get proactive and head this pest off as soon as possible!

Good Health,
Allan N. Spreen, MD
"The Nutrition Physician®"


Dr. Spreen is a nutritionally-oriented medical doctor in practice for over a decade before concentrating on nutritional writing. He is known for his original "Nutrition Physician" on-line sites for both America Online and iVillage's 'The Women's Network', offering nutrition information directly to the public.

His authored works include Nutritionally Incorrect-Why the American Diet is Dangerous & How to Defend Yourself (Woodland); Smart Medicine for Healthier Living (Avery), co-authored with Janet Zand and James LaValle: and The Menopause Diet (Woodland). A graduate of both the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee before obtaining his M.D. from East Tennessee State University, Dr. Spreen wears a second hat as a coach of competitive divers at the national and Olympic levels.




that is disgusting.

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