A day (or two or three) in the life of...

I am quite excited to be going to an ABBA dance party tomorrow night with Lyly, Jemmy Pie and his loverly sugar daddy. We will drink, be merry and dance the night away as we drunkenly sing aloud to each ABBA song and reminisce about the innocent younger years. We are now old anti-christs who sin like mad. I'll try to bring my camera to take pictures but what if I lose it at the club? I'll be drunk AND sad. We can't have that, next thing you know I'll be telling the people around me that they don't love me properly and scanning the crowd for my fantasy lovers. Yeah, I think it's best that the camera stay at home then. Fair enough. So, all is better also because I made up with Mama and agreed to disagree and to not insult eachother in the heat of the moment in the future. Hopefully we can stick to this resolution and not email eachother in heated moments and hopefully she'll slow down on the manipulation or be more conscious of it. I feel better after having s...

I mean, seriously, who's 'the average person'? There is no average person, there's just the idea that most people who don't run around giggling and seem to dress conservatively and don't attract much attention to themselves are 'average'. You see them and you think that even their train of thought is 'average' and boring and you want to shake them to inspire a facial expression from them but that's just based on your perception of them, not on who they really are, right? I mean, look at me. I look kinda like your 'average' person I suppose. I dress 'normal', not particularly trendy or provocative. I don't wave my arms around and run up and down store aisles while singing and displaying insane facial expressions. I'm not rich, not poor. I'm not ugly or gorgeous either. I think I look kinda 'middle of the road'. But I'm not. I sometimes think I'm even capable of insanity, whatever that means really be...

Oof, I'm listening to WTOP on my laptop and the bad activity on the roads and it's making me want to have brought my pajamas in with me and just stay in my office overnight. The people on WTOP sound very chastising in their warning of driving VERY slowly and keeping a lot of distance between you and the cars ahead of you. Hmmm, sounds iffy. Lots of accidents happening out there. Gonna go nibble on my trail mix and stare out the window more.

The reigning Claudia Princess waves to her kingdom.

My coworker's daughter is in the office today and has decided to plant her butt in my office and entertain me (as I try to get my project done) for the day. She's cute as can be (half White, half Vietnamese, yay!) and loves me so she has added 'Princess' to my name but not to the front of it but as my second name, like Mary Jane , except it's Claudia Princess. I like the sound of it. I might have it legally changed, then my future daughter can be 'Princess Jr.'. Sounds good to me.

Try as I may have, I am still stuck here at work for Martin Luther King's B'day. Well, at least we get a day off next month. Of course it's not for a minority's B'day but as my boss would say, I'd need to go back to 'my country' to get those holidays off. I'm just going to pick somewhere in Europe as my country because if I'm not mistaken, there's a country there that gets hundreds of days off (ok, maybe a hundred or more or less... will have to look it up) a year for frivolous holidays. How spoiled they must be. More days off than they can keep track of, nap time in the middle of their work days, short working hours. In my next life, I will be European. Preferably French cuz I like the language and it seems as though it'd be quite stunning scenery there. I love Valentines Day. I think that should be a national holiday so that we all could stay home and either just make love all day (to lover or to oneself) and have chocolate/strawberr...

Observe what my boss said in reply to my attempts at getting a day off. [04:16] Clussy 75: um, since we're an EOE company and all, do we get Martin Luther King's B'day off? [04:17] HRWorXRob: nice try [04:18] Clussy 75: that means no, huh? [04:18] Clussy 75: oh we get George Washington's b-day... a white guy, but we don't get MLK. [04:18] HRWorXRob: boy your quick [04:18] Clussy 75: ok, I see [04:19] Clussy 75: Ok, how about Simon Bolivar's B'day, do we get that off? [04:19] HRWorXRob: no ethnic holidays [04:19] Clussy 75: I mean, at least me, do I get it off considering he was the one who established my country and therefore deserves my recognition ('props')? [04:20] Clussy 75: Kwanza? [04:20] Clussy 75: Chanukkah? [04:20] Clussy 75: Can a sista get a break here? [04:20] HRWorXRob: if yoiu want to go back to your country...you can have it off

Ahhh, after 8 days of being on a desolate island of cleansing I took the plunge and went back to the mainland of food and coffee and drinks. I've had all in the past 15 hours and I'm damn proud. I started off with trail mix.... then dinner... and then, well, our hosts had chilled a bottle of white wine for me. For ME! So I couldn't be rude since they had already uncorked it and poured me a glass. I sipped... and sipped some more and knowing that if I didn't finish the bottle, it'd really all just go to waste. No sense in wasting a perfectly good bottle of wine, none at all. So, needless to say I was the life of the party last night with my jokes and funny recollections and moaning and groaning with each bite of food. They all were looking at me as if I were the newest addition to the endangered species exhibit at the local zoo. I guess I must have been a bit of a site. Then we cranked the music on the way home and I belted out my best rendition of "Man, I feel ...

Ahhh, just what I needed, a stingray massage.

This was a very serious romantic moment that we'll treasure always.

Must go on a another cruise already...

I have to say first off that I have Kelly Clarkson's new song ('Since you've been gone') on repeat on my laptop this morning and it's amping me up. I LOVE THIS SONG! Who knew she'd really start coming out with some actually good songs? I mean, I liked her since she was on American Idol, vying for the top spot and felt she deserved the win but then she came out with a few iffy songs but I sang along because I liked her but this new song came out and I couldn't figure out where I recognized the singer's voice and then (to my surprise) I heard it was her! Good job Kelly. So after my pissy fit on Fridy night, I drew myself a bath at about 1 AM, lit my tub candles, grabbed my book, turned radio on and tuned to jazz station where they were luckily playing Brazilian Bossnova music which is one of my faves so I was just unwinding and taking my mind off everything that wound me up so tightly that evening. About 20 min later, my Lu comes home and hops into tub...

Well, it was a great day all the way up till about an hour and a half ago. Lu and I were supposed to watch a movie tonight but Lyly called me in the afternoon to ask me if I were interested in going bowling and I figured, why not? So that was the plan. After I left work (about 5:30) I headed over to Tyson's to shop a bit until Lu got off of work since he was working on a proposal for a contract that was getting reworked and he had to stay until it was complete. So I walked around Tyson's, went to Vicky's again and got another bra and bottom ensemble that was half off (I can't resist the sales), went to Express and got some very cute light blue cords and a black sweater (again, half off and I couldn't just walk away from that), the recent edition of 'US Weekly' and a great pink gloss from CVS (I wanted to get one at Sephora but considering they had the same color in a different brand over at CVS for 60% cheaper I just had to go with the smart choice) and my s...

Feeling GREAT today. Another optimistic and energetic day (though I woke up a tad late cuz I snoozed since my boss wasn't in this morning and I DID end up doing some work from home last night) and it coincides with a lovely Friday. Feeling clean and healthy today and even had energy to spare to go to Spinning class at lunchtime. Ok, had another dream about high school last night! What's up with that? In this dream I was rushing to school and it was the first day of the school year though I was in some old sweats but remember feeling awfully cute compared to all others (simple pleasures...). I was being rushed around because we had to go by all of our new classes to get oriented with where we're to go and I saw some of the guys I went to high school with and they kept telling me how great I looked (damn I'm vain in my dreams) so I was feeling confident until I had to go to my last class but I couldn't find where I was supposed to go and I was just around and aro...

Last night was GREAT! After work, I went over to Tyson's to finish up some late Xmas shopping (I procrastinate on EVERYTHING) and even slipped into Vicky's to get myself a couple new bras since they're having one of their Super Duper Clearances of the year and even got matching bottoms so I'm feeling cute today :-D . Anywho, I went into The Body Shop and got myself some more soothing oils which were on sale and seeing that I'm completely addicted to these oils I had to stock up. Then I went and picked Lu up from work and we went over to a friends house for dinner (of course I slowly sipped on my juice as they all dove into deep bowls of noodles w/some veggies and spring rolls... Mmmm, that was kinda tough till Lyly made a reference to pimples and puss oozing out then I found it quite easy to not be eating) and then home to clean up some, make my nightly tea and drew a very hot bath with lots of epsom salts. I lit some candles around my tub, grabbed my book and my ...

So, I slept a lot last night because I figured it'd be a nice treat for my body to sleep extra since it had been deprived the last few nights of good sleep. So after tending to sicky and cleaning up a bit, I put on my cozy PJ's on (or as Danny would say 'Jammies') crawled under the sheets with my new book (Candace something is the author, the one who created the Sex In The City story) and read till my eye lids could no longer stay open so I turned off the lights at about 9:45 and that was that. Though, since I took my Senna Tea earlier than usual (took it at 9 and it only takes about 5-6 hours to really take action on your body) I woke up at about 2 to go to the bathroom. So, then back to sleep and I snoozed till about 8:15 this morning. That's a LOT of sleep. That may explain why I'm so wired today. I like it though! I have energy to spare and am feeling GOOD! I was going to go to spinning class after work but didn't prepare my gym bag this morning so ...

I'm feeling pretty good here on the morning of day 2. I'm feeling completely un-bloated due to the fact that my body has now finished digesting any possible foods that were left in my system and now is starting to concentrate on the 'out with the bad' process. I was kinda cranky yesterday and had little patience for hooking up my Mom's Tivo, seeing my uncle on his B'day (he's a very quiet and kinda edgy man who doesn't smile much) and catering to my sick fiance (heh, I just wanted to say fiance, sounds nice) who needs to be uber coddled when he's ailing in any sort of way: "I'm hungry, can you make me something? No, not that, no not that either, what else is there? I'm thirsty... I'm going to need some more medicine...". Why must men in serious relationships turn into such toddlers when getting sick? It's annoying, not cute by any means of the word and just takes quite a toll on my patience. I've read that days 1, 2 and...

OK, started my 2nd 'Master Cleanse' today and though it's still early on, I feel good and no hunger pangs. I wanted to start yesterday but I was too hungover and was getting some foods into my body to absorb the excess alcohol. Actually, I wasn't really hungover, just feeling a bit light headed and dragging my feet completely and had no motivation for anything so, I took my 'Smooth Move' tea last night, went to sleep, woke up to the need to go to the bathroom (smooth move is good stuff) and then took my daily morning salt water flush (bleh, can't stand that stuff but I try keeping in mind that it's for a good cause... health) and made my large batch of freshly squeezed lemon juice, grade B maple syrup and cayenne pepper. I'm shooting for 2 solid weeks of this but if I start losing too much weight, I may just stop at 10-12 days. We'll see how I feel. New Years Eve was great. Went over to friends house and partied like mad. The make-shift da...

Took a break from dancing to recieve peck on the cheek from my loverrrr.

I think someone was annoying me but not sure. I don't remember (clearly you see a drink in my hand, right?).