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

Heath Ledger died today

and only 28. what a waste. he was a great actor. sigh. young hollywood's not so fabulous after all. =(

know that all these too shall pass

When you get home from work, you watch tv, chuckle at the dancer wanna-be's on "you think you can dance," then you go to bed at night with a list of tomorrows to-do's swirling in your head. You never expect to be jolted out of sleep by a phone call telling you that something happened to somebody near and dear to your heart. Mark's dad had a mild stroke this morning. He's currently being treated in St. Joseph's Providence and he's going to stay there for another 24-48 hours. Please pray for him and his speedy recovery =(