it's the end of the world as we know it......

well......i got a job! ok it's not technically a real job until my 'probationary' period is over (if they decide to keep me) but it's a job. and i will get paid. hooray! i am so excited! it is basically an assistant/secretary position at a law office and i am going to work my butt off so that after my 3 week probation he will take me on full time. i am so glad someone finally decided to give me a shot! and now i can go shopping. i don't need that much, maybe a pair of pants, a casual dress and some shirts. i also don't start until the 13th so i have all of next week to prepare. i am nervous and excited. this is a real job.

i had previously written that arizona's new basketball coach was tim floyd. floyd did not accept and arizona wanted someone more high profile. either way, arizona is still missing a basketball coach. but if they really want someone high profile they are going to need to throw them a heck of a lot of cheddar (yo). in other college basketball news, john calipari has officially left the university of memphis to coach at the university of kentucky. they gave him almost $32 million and he gets his choice of country club memberships, two cars and of course bonuses upon reaching sweet sixteen, the final four and an ncaa championship. he is now the highest paid coach in college basketball.

yesterday i went to an event with my mother. it is for a great organization called piece by piece which teaches mosaic tile work to underprivileged women in skid row (bad area of los angeles) and then sells their pieces and gives them the profits. well my mother and i went and i made a mirror and my mom made a pot. this is what it looks like now. later i am going to grout it so you won't see any wood. it should be amazing. obviously pictures of that will follow.

it does not look as good here as it does in person. it's really pretty blues and some white tiles and some blue tiles that are a little more grey. the grout is also grey so it should work very well together.

so yesterday i was going through some stuff in my room just to kind of clean and organize and i found a box of old stuff that i kept. in this box i had everything from photographs, to letters i got at camp to notes i passed freshman year of high school. well, in this box i also found this.....

unquestionably one of the great magazine covers of all time. i thought i had lost it but i didn't, it was just hiding. this is vanity fair's december 2001 cover and brad obviously looks incredible. like wow. amazing. you can't stop staring can you? it's ok, i can't either. it's nice. i just love that i have the cover. that is brad at his hottest.

i was also out yesterday and in my travels i found a person who deserved to be called out. first off, legwarmers? really? second, hot pink legwarmers? seriously? this is not the 80s and you're not in an aerobics class.

just wow. although i do love how i snapped the picture when she was starting to walk away so she is in a dancer-like pose.





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ramble ramble ramble

good morning universe! today is monday and if i look outside my window it looks disgusting outside. i do not want to leave the haven that is my room and i've got a kitty (mr. bo jangles) and a pup (sophie) here with me. but i do have to leave.....eventually. and i have to put effort into what i leave the house in......because i have a job interview today. i'm hoping i don't jinx it by discussing it on blogger, but i have an interview! because (for those of you who don't know me and/or my blog) i need a job....fast!
quick recap - i graduated from college may of 2008. i got a job in retail, then tore my meniscus (left knee) and had to be "terminated," on good terms of course. well, i have been looking for a job ever since, and that was september. my search has yet to come to a close, but i am hoping one of these days i will find a job. i understand that it's tough but i continually get called on interviews and am then told there are no jobs (at my level) available. well shit, then why the f**k did you bring me all the way down here first thing in the morning?? i just don't get it. but i deal. i smile and am polite and still nada. please someone just give me a job already! seriously! don't make me take an unpaid (unappreciated) 3 month internship. please?

well, back to the fact that it is monday. yay! last night (sunday) i had no new tv, except for the 25 minutes long (but brilliant) united states of tara. if you have watched the show then you know why it's great but if not, it's hysterical. toni collette has dissociative identity disorder and has several distinct personalities. to say the least, her 'alters' come out when bad situations happen and tara can't handle them. great show. well tonight (monday) there are a bevy of new episodes and i am so excited! obviously number one is gossip girl. i am just so excited i can't even begin to tell you. i love blair and chuck together but i love blair and nate together even more. they belong together. we also have, one tree hill, house and my favorite abc family show, greek! i love mondays. i saw a preview for today's episode of house yesterday and it looks so good. house's patient is trapped inside of his own body. he is completely lucid but cannot actually speak or move. he is literally trapped in his own body. it should be a great episode.

now, i personally love the hotness that is johnny depp. he is an incredible actor, great father and is so damn sexy is kills me. it's the smile and eyes. he's mischievous and you want to know what he is thinking at all times. so here's some hot johnny.

i just want to run my hands through his gorgeous head of hair.

yesterday i saw: joel madden with harlow (such a beautiful little girl) and then i saw sir michael caine. i was driving with my friend allison and all of a sudden she looks over and points and just goes, "oh my gosh, there's michael caine." i really don't care about celebs that much but i know i have friends who love hearing about my sightings. but michael caine is kind of a big deal. cider house rules, anyone? anyone?

i had quite the day. oooh i am also going to make some sort of a headband. i will keep you all posted on that and will post pictures if it comes out ok. i am thinking nicole richie around-the head style headband. we'll see. hope everyone has a lovely monday and a great week!

oh my gosh! i almost didn't talk about basketball! oh lordy, the rants i could go on, but i won't. in case you didn't know, arizona is out. we lost to the overall number 1 seed, louisville in the sweet 16. we went down hard and it was dirty. it still stings a tiny bit. but yesterday, 2 of the 4 number 1 seeds lost, louisville and pittsburgh. i know a lot of people that were rooting for either of those teams to win it all - well too bad for them. before basketball season even started i said that unc was going to win it all. tyler hansborough (little biotch) wants it badly enough, he stayed for his senior year and he is going to go get it. he is going to take it, regardless of who he has to plow down to get there. this weekend we will see the university of connecticut (uconn) take on michigan state....go spartans! and we will also see villanova attempt to crush unc. villanova should be able to stay in it but it in the end it's going to go to unc. arizona is officially on the search for our new basketball coach and i am so interested to see who will end up at our (former) power-house of a school. i just want us to be great again. ok, basketball talk is over.





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dwts

tonight was the dancing with the stars premiere! i love watching it, partially because of the tacky costumes and partially because my 90 year old great aunt rose watches it so it gives us something to chat about. but i must say that this season is shaping up to be a good one. there are some very interesting characters and i am excited to see where it goes. my loves so far are shawn johnson (how can you not love her?) and melissa (the dumped first choice) from the bachelor. melissa was damn good and only had two full days to prepare. that's pretty insane! melissa and holly madison (hef's ex girlfriend) were the two last minute additions. nancy o'dell (annoying) and jewel (needs ivisalign but great singer) both injured themselves and therefore had to pull out of the competition. melissa was a fabulous addition, however, holly (who had 5 days to practice vs melissa's 2) sucked. she was awkward and totally ungraceful but on the bright side her orange dress matched her skin perfectly. denise richards pisses me off. she is a tart. she cannot act and she wasn't even that great tonight. she was similar to holly - totally awkward and uncomfortable. maybe next week will be better for those who did poorly. steve-o (from jackass) is also on dwts this seaon and he is surprisingly good and rather graceful. i also must admit that he kind of cleans up really nicely and looks good now that he is sober (thank you rehab) and dancing all day.

have you heard about the latest britney scandal? apparently at her last show, as she was being lowered under the stage she said into her live mic (about a wardrobe malfunction) my "p*ssy was hanging out." hilarious! i guess her costume hiked up and brit felt uncomfortable and then forgot that her mic was on. mind you, i don't understand why her mic was on, she doesn't actually sing but ok. it's still really hilarious.


well.....arizona beat stanford in our last pac-10 game of the regular season! thank god too. that game was a serious must win for us. we are 9-9 in the pac and 18-12 over all. hopefully (and it looks like most likely) arizona will be going to the ncaa tournament in 2 weeks. hopefully we will keep our 24 consecutive appearances record in tact.

ooooh, i am also really excited for 'i love you man,' the new paul rudd and jason segel movie. it looks hilarious. plus i think both of them are sexy so it's a double bonus. woo!






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fuck you rant and other things

fuck you lute olsen. fuck you for taking a leave of absence for a year because your wife divorced you. fuck you for coming back and subsequently firing kevin o'neill (our interim head coach). fuck you for once again leaving and retiring for good. fuck you for leaving us with a know-nothing no-name assistant coach for a head coach. fuck you for making us lose kevin o'neill, a coach that will go and create an incredible program that will become a final four team. fuck you lute. fuck you.
arizona lost tonight to cal and we could have potentially lost our bid to the ncaa tournament later this month. arizona is now 9-9 for the season and we play stanford on saturday - and they beat asu (#21) tonight. not good. i am scared. we are now on a 4 game losing streak, our longest since 1987 (+-2). arizona is screwed and it is all your fault lute. apparently if arizona isn't being led by lute then they cannot be winners. lute was at arizona for 23 years and we went to the tournament every single year and won the ncaa title in 1997. lute is gone and our legacy is quickly leaving with him. it hurts to watch. my first year at arizona we went to the elite 8. we were playing the #1 team in the nation, the university of illinois, and we were up by 15 with 2.5 minutes left. by the ending buzzer we were tied. arizona let it slip out of their hands in 2.5 minutes. we went into overtime and officially lost after 5 more heinously painful minutes. we haven't gotten past the 2nd round since. this year we may not even make it to the first round. hopefully we can win this weekend and hopefully we can do really well in the pac-10 tournament next week. i'm praying for you zona, don't fuck it up.

now it's time for my latest anger/rage inducing story.....i went on a job interview the other day. an interview that was set up specifically because last time i interviewed with them they did not have a job. well, they supposedly had a job this time. so i go in there, mind you it took me forever to get ready i nit-pick about it all and it drives me insane, and we sit down and we chat for a minute and then the woman proceeds to tell me that they have no entry level positions. she then spends the next ten or so minutes telling me to keep in contact and that they would be in contact if anything opened up. i cannot even begin to tell you, blogger universe, how badly i wanted to reach across the desk and strangle her. this woman didn't even have the courtesy to bring me into her office. she met with me in an empty office in human resources....oh, and she kept me waiting and then she does this. i wanted to scream. this does not help boost my confidence that i will find a job. it was like being slapped in the face over and over again and being told you're an incompetent moron. it sucks. i might be acting dramatic but believe me if this is what you had been hearing for over 9 months you would feel the same way. i finally thought i might have actually have a chance at a job and then woops, the rug was pulled out from under me. all i want is a job. is that too much to ask???

so there are major major rumors swirling that rihanna and chris brown got married. i was saying to my friends yesterday that if they were married she cannot be forced to testify against him. remember also, that she is not pressing charges, the d.a. is. rihanna is a witness and if they are married the law states that she does not have to testify against her husband. it's kind of genius and kind of terrifying at the same time. it's also interesting because we know that she cooperated with the police in the initial stages of the investigation. clearly she is a little f*cked in the head. but if they are married and she refuses to testify that is going to be a bit of a blow to the case, although there is photographic evidence. it is so interesting but obviously we are only ever going to know so much because (as far as i know) we are not chris brown and rihanna. chris received two charges: assault and making criminal threats and his court date was postponed until april 6th so we have to wait til then to see what happens. but believe me i will keep this blog updated if anything happens.

one of our four cats is in mine and my sister's room with me right now. he came out from under my bed and proceeded to go over to my sister's bed. he was at the foot and was checking out the bed and all of a sudden he got the duvet over his head and was climbing up into the bed under the duvet. he is now situated in a lump (under the duvet) at the foot of my sister's bed. it's hysterical. he is also a very awkward cat so watching him do this was hysterically entertaining.

that lump at the end of the bed, that's bosco.


what i am loving right now (listen to it loudly).....

so juicy and bubbly and fun!!






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march madness!

i cannot f*cking believe it's already march. it's absolutely insane. but on the bright side only two months and three days until my birthday!!! i love my birthday. being the middle child, it is the one day of the year where it is just about me and no one else. it's pretty great. this is also the first time in four years that i will be home for my birthday - i have spent my passed four birthdays at college in fabulous arizona.
march is also the host of march madness. i love college basketball and march madness is what i wait for once basketball season starts. it is so exciting and now that i am home i have all the sports channels so i can essentially watch any and every basketball game during the tournament. so exciting! hopefully, if arizona doesn't mess up this week we will be one of the four pac-10 teams going to the tourney. arizona is also playing it's biggest competition for that fourth slot - cal. not good. at least we play them at arizona. we need this. arizona has a serious legacy to uphold.....24 consecutive ncaa tournaments. it doesn't get much better than that. no really, it doesn't. you can go check. i can't believe that basketball season is coming to a close soon. it makes me sad. i love watching the games but once the season ends that means nba draft time! it looks as though arizona will lose it's top three guys to the draft and there is serious talk that one of them, jordan hill, could (and probably will) go in the top 10. crazy stuff. chase, jordan and nick will be missed.....seriously. i am petrified for our team next year. we have a lot of work to do.

so tonight is the bachelor season finale. i am excited and nervous. i cannot wait to see what happens. although i must stay, i am going to be disappointed with his choice either way because i wanted him to pick jillian. also, deanna is coming back tonight. she screwed up last time not picking jason and it seems that the producers wanted her to come back and beg for jason to be with her....ugh so typical and stupid. the producers need to be more creative.
still no gossip girl tonight, but i believe it comes back next week, thankfully. i must admit i am ridiculously obsessed with it, it's gross. and it doesn't help that there are beautiful clothes and accessories in each scene. i love it!
are any of your readers house fans? i recently found house and fell in love and am now totally addicted. first of all, house is so sexy it's ridiculous, second i love jesse spencer and third i love robert sean leonard and have since i first saw much ado about nothing and the dead poets society. if you haven't seen d.p.s. rent it immediately. it's great.
right now i am watching sister sister and i must tell you what one of the twins is wearing. there is nothing ok about this outfit: jeans that are covered in a light blue and white 'cloud' print, a bright yellow cropped and frayed denim jacket and a t-shirt (tucked in) that has a blue flower print. it was kind of an eyesore. but i do love this show, such a guilty pleasure.

ok i really must get off of here and scour indeed.com for a job. i really need one of those damn things, even though no one seems to want to hire me.




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salubrious saturday

i just got back from my friend's birthday party at a 'swanky' bar and i must say i had a good time. minus the fact that the place was hot and stuffy and the group of us were the youngest people in there by a good 10 years. we had fun. a couple of us danced and there was a band and the singer would walk around the bar singing and dancing. it was awkward but fun and they sang really good songs. really good ones. if i could remember i would give you examples but that's what happens when you drink martinis with your friends. and then you apparently come home and blog about it. but whatever.
i am very excited for later today because i finally get to put one of my christmas gifts to use. my mom got me 2 tickets to the uofa v usc basketball game at usc, so my best friend a and i are going. we are going to get rowdy! now, i must say i am not a fan of usc. i despise the entire institution, but it's ok, it's a healthy pac-10 rivalry. but, the one good thing usc does have is a bar on campus. arizona never had such a thing and would never have it. and when i say on campus i mean in their giant 'cafeteria,' which also has a baja fresh, carl's jr, starbucks and red mango (among others). this is all literally on their campus, smack in the middle of the madness. a and i are going to hang out in 'the onion' (the cafeteria) before the game and it should be fun. i'm also excited to walk around the campus. it is unfortunately a pretty school.

here's some sexy for your saturday. i don't really thing anything further needs to be said about the photograph below. enjoy (drool).






quote of the day:
"too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
~mae west (1893-1980)
actress, screenwriter and sex symbol



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in case you didn't know....

just in case you were not aware.......tomorrow is christmas eve! hooray! right now d and i are watching love actually (starring hugh grant). it really gets me in the christmas mood. and it's really the only "love" movie i can watch without wanting to slit my wrists because i am bitter and alone (just kidding...but seriously). i do enjoy when my bitter side comes out though. it can be rather entertaining.

we just reached my favorite part of love actually. billy is on tv promoting his record and he tells the kids "hi kids. here's an important message from your uncle bill. don't do drugs. become a pop star and they give you them for free." hilarious.

tonight the u of a played kansas and basketball and the cats won! and while kansas is unranked they are still kansas and a blue-blood at that. so it was a big deal. not only did we win we massacred. i am so sad i missed it but thankfully i was able to read all about it. arizona has been playing insanely well lately so hopefully we will have a great season. it would be a great slap in the face to our ex-coach lute olsen who up and left very suddenly leaving one of arizona's assistant coaches to cover his job. what a jackass. truthfully, lute should have bowed up two season ago when he took a sabbatical to deal with "personal issues." had he not come back the great kevin o'neill would still be our coach and arizona would unquestionably be on their way to greatness once again. it is so sad. but either way......go cats!! we are off to a great season!

final thought of the day, i saw this great quote at coffee bean today: "who are we not to shine" ~nelson mandela. what a great quote?!? and so true. every person everywhere deserves to shine.

and here's a great question of the day: what would you do if you knew you could not fail? you can leave your answers/thoughts in the comments section.




joyeux noel

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humbug

i think i might be sick again. i'm hoping that it is my allergies going absolutely crazy because it's been very windy but i just don't know. i am starting to get that sick/groggy/foggy feeling (which i hate).

there are officially ten days until christmas eve and i must say that i am excited. it doesn't feel like christmas outside but it does in my heart and that is what counts.

tonight was the dexter season finale and i must say that i am going to miss it terribly until it comes back. i am also surprised that there wasn't more of a cliff hanger. it was still great but it didn't leave me going nuts like it usually does. if you don't watch dexter i highly recommend it. it is about so much more than him killing people and it's amazing. plus m.c.h. does an amazing job.

and for my favorite piece of news for the day: our illustrious president, dubya, was making his final presidential visit to iraq and during his speech had not one, but two shoes throw at him. how great is that? i would have gone for something a little heavier (say a bowling ball) but that's just me. the first shoe missed but second shoe came very close.

now for sports: my fabulous university of arizona wildcats did the unthinkable today, we pulled off an upset. and not just any upset, an upset against a top 5 (#4 to be exact) team. we beat gonzaga today! it's been too long since arizona pulled off those moves and damn it felt good.

ok time for more law and order criminal intent and laying in bed.


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