roadblock roadblock

cliche but, when life hands you lemons they say make lemonade. but with what money? lol. this thing we're doing is a long and arduous process. so i need to be patient. so i'll make lemonade with whatever i have. liquidating funds are so not fun. but you do what you have to do -- i guess. so so so to anybody who owes me money, pony up! i need it. lol. ergo, real estate lesson #2 have enough funds to cover all the shit that you need to pay for. peace!

celebrity schmelebrity

I guess my niece will be super thrilled to know that i ran into miley cyrus today (she's hannah montana at the disney channel). didn't really recognize her at first but she was escorted by two people and she was rail thin like i can literally see her skeleton in her arms so i figured she must be some anorexic celebrity -- and then she started talking with her deep voice. i kinda glanced sideways and was shocked that i recognized her. lol. i guess cuz my niece loves her so much and watches her show all the time. otherwise i'm oblivious to everything around me. too much stuff to think about than gawk at supposedly famous people. but it can't be helped when you work in the entertainment industry, so here's a list of my celebrity run-ins from inception to date:

Jerry Seinfeld - dreamworks cafeteria

Jefferey Katzenberg - dreamworks cafeteria (one of the owners of Dreamworks SKG, he's the K)

Anthony Kiedis - red hot chili peppers front man zooming away in his ferrari from the parking lot across red rocks (no we were not chasing him, he was on his way out of the parking lot lol)

Pauly Shore - at the house of blues

Michael Douglas - I literally ran into him at the elevator at Universal Studios, didn't recognize him, mumbled I'm sorry and all my coworkers laughed at me for being so oblivious

Dancing with the stars hosts, everybody on dancing with the stars during Joey Fatone's season, the episode where Enrique Iglesias sang lol - I got picked to watch one of the final nights for dancing with the stars at our office lottery. Disney owns ABC so we can get VIP tickets for it but limited ra. Does this even count?? Since I went to see them it's not really an official run-in. but whatevs. It's my list and I can do what I want to lol.

Joaquin Phoenix - at the guitar center in hollywood

Juliette Lewis and whoever she's dating - I chatted with her while tasting boar's head cheese at the Ralph's in malibu. Ang again like the retard that I am, I didn't recognize her lol.

Ashley Tisdale - that highschool musical blonde, at our lobby

Miley Cyrus - hannah montana at our elevator

And I think I rode on the elevator with Zac Efron yesterday but I wasn't sure if it was him so it doesn't count lol.

Macy Gray - the singer, at a tennis match in staples

Venus and Serena Williams, Amelie Maresmo, Maria Sharapova etc. - we watched a women's tennis match at staples

The LA Clippers lol

Chyna - that woman wrestler, at the burbank target lol

Jennie Garth and her kids - at the burbank target, I guess this place is popular with celebrities lol

So far the only people I was real thrilled about running into was Juliette Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld and Anthony Kiedis lol. I don't like to talk to celebrities or ask to take pictures or autographs when I do spot them. Mark and I are like: "why? Kami man pud celebrity bah!" Bwahahahaha! It's bisaya snobbery at it's best. Gotta love it. What about you guys? Did you have any celebrity run-ins? What did you do? Apil akong mga pilipinas friends ha, whoever have ran into Mr. hotness from that tagalog movie that has this quote "you had me at my best blah blah blah" nakalimot man gud ko sa title (dili ang main character sa movie, the other guy, kinda dark and super buff)! Reply reply! I want to hear all about it.

million dollar view my ass

we did our first attempt at house hunting yesterday and i just looove how realtors fluff up their ads with words like: fantastic view of turnkey home, ready to move in, good size bedrooms! blahblahblah. so mark and i were totally crushing on this house that we saw on the internet and we finally decided to move our bums and visit the place as well as scope out the area. when we got there, i was like -- oh, it's in a ghetto part of the city! lol. and the house was on a really steep hill. which means that if flooding will occur, this house will be first on the erosion list. we hightailed out of there and i made a note of the surrounding streets so that i won't add it to my list of homes to visit. ha, i should've known not to judge the book by its cover! so real estate lesson #1 don't judge a house by curb appeal alone (as well as adobe photoshopped and masterfully staged internet photos). more real estate lessons to come [hahaha i feel like i'm on hgtv's house hunters/property virgins episode]

this is hilarious

back in my college days. i'm such a freakin nerd! lol

http://bay.sdsu.edu/dir/page.asp?LName=Flores&FName=Teresa&MI=O&Category=Alumni

SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

i got this from Tiff, yeah it dates me but what the heck. i think it's funny. oh and to add to it a bit: we didn't have mp3s back then so we have to get the double tape cassette recorder so we can record our friend's tape onto a blank tape. hahahaha. times have changed gyud!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email! ! We had to actually write somebody a letter ..with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and some body else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids' and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie th eater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go bu ild a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!

You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30