current stats: full from pho, happy to be away from work (at least for the next 12 hours), energized from drinking a chocolate milk tea from Quickly (apparently it is also popular in the PI's), feeling a little guilty about not having worked out yet, but happy to be decked out in my "pang-bahay" shorts & 2nd favorite t-shirt while typing out this blog in bed via bf's lap top. :)

the bitch that is monday
as usual, monday brought a wealth of case files to process & prioritize......
and of course another wonderful gift in the mail to get the week started
on the right foot: another rejected application from the INS.
trouble is, this is the second time this thing has been sent back.
'boy did this nice suprise get my gastric juices flowing for yet
another uldcer-inducing episode.
...I think my boss said it best when she arrived at 10 am
and saw this lovely package waiting for her,
"I wish this week was over already!!!!"

luckily, the rest of the super-busy day went off without a hitch.
gawd, i'm soooo praying that tomorrow the devil
doesn't roll out on his red carpet to fuck up the rest of my wweek.
for some reason, it always happens that way...tuesday...
the drama always gets worse on tuesdays.

12 hours of complete bliss
thank goodness my sunday treated me much too
well. better than i deserved.
i think i surpassed my all time record for lazying around...
try 12 hours of tv surfing on my living room couch...
and i wasn't even sick or was on doctor-ordered bed rest -
no excuse what-so-ever!

let's see... I caught quite the plethora of tv viewing pleasure.
'started off by taking turns watching football and Trading Spaces (about 3 episodes)
with the bf. May I say that Picture in Picture ("pip") is perhaps one of
man's greatest inventions. ;)

then, moved on to "Police Cops" on Animal Planet.
Found out that there actually exists obsessive/compulsive "animal collectors"....
people who have to have a gazillion pets. it's a disorder that is apparently commonplace.

The guy they featured had 150 cats living in filth and squalor in his home
because he could no longer support them, but did not have the heart
to give them up (all due to his disorder).
that's right, one-hundred-and-fifty!
He could have very easily had his first couple of cats "fixed"
to keep this overpopulation from happening.
but unfortunately, people with his disorder are unable to
have that kind of common sense.

The disgusting thing was, that near the end of the 8-hour
day that the humane society spent cleaning out
this house of 150 cats,
they discovered more as they made their way to the basement.
by the end of their 2-day stint at this man's home,
they cleaned out....250 cats (a few corpses, but most were alive)!!!
GAWD, what an awful, awful thing to have to get paid to do!
poor cats, too.

anyway, i was soon turned on to the Road Rules marathon on MTV.
I had to catch up, since the season finale is less than an hour away.
i told myself i'd at least do laundry, but just as i thought of that,
the Road Rules marathon was over and the PLanet of the Apes marathon
began.

I've always been intrigued by it because, for the life of me,
i never saw one Planet of the Apes movie from beginning to end.
And as it turns out, from the Planet of the Apes documentary that they
also showed, there are actually 6 Planet of the Apes movies!...yes,
5 sequels. Actually, the last 4 were actually prequels, even though they
didn't call it that.

unfortunately, all these years,
I have seen at least one or two scenes from all 6 of the movies.
but because I never saw any one movie from beginning to end,
I've always thought that there was only 1 movie.
see? 12 hours on the couch wasn't that unproductive or brain-numbing1 ;)

but most importantly, as I was flipping the channels, I discovered that they are going to show
the making of Underworld, my friend's movie, on AMC this Wednesday night
at 10p. I hope you're reading this, Ell.
As usual, i was jumping and screaming again cause I know i'll get to see Len
talking about his movie.
I'm totally excited.

They are also showing it on BET this Thursday night at...I forgot the time.

I didn't know i ate beef for dinner!
I wish i could say I was paying homage to the porcelain god
because i had one too many kamikaze shots
and a crazy night of partying.
but as luck would have it, I was merely suffering from
the worst headache known to man...all caused by
stiff neck and back muscles - my reward for working at a desk 40
hours a week.

I woke up around 2:30 Sat morning and tried to alleviate the pain
by stretching and massaging my neck and back.
but my body just wasn't havin' it.
the tightness was there to stay a little longer.

i decided to try to go back to sleep when
an overwhelming feeling came over me and forced me
to book my ass to the nearest toilet possible.

but as soon as I got there, i could barely bend down
to make a clear shot, when BAMMMM....
everything imaginable shot out of my mouth (and nose...ewww!)
like water rushing down Niagara falls (but grosser)

and because the distance between the source and
the end of my disgusting version of niagara falls was
too great,
guess what splashed back up all over my entire legs
and bathroom floor?
'wish the laws of physics didn't have to apply
so consistently sometimes. :(

at least i felt better after that and could go back to sleep.