off with their heads

i discovered a fantastical new book that i couldn't put down this weekend, in fact i stayed up till 2am finish it. the book is titled the looking glass wars. it is the true story of alice in wonderland... or should i say alyss princess of wonderland. there was something about the book that just kept me turning the pages, sure it's meant for the 10+ crowd (which technically i am a part of), but it has that sort of harry potter-esqueness to it i suppose. the book is the first in the trilogy and i am thouroughly looking forward to book 2. i have read some online reveiews disliking the book becuase of how it references the original (as an incorrect account of what really happened) all i can say is get over it. the original still remains, this is just a story built on top of it and the book's reference to the reinterpreted accounts of alyss' tales make it that much better.

i think of this book as wicked is to oz. a new way to look at the story and i quite enjoyed it. it was a fun book... and i'm not a reader so anything that gets me to read must be fun!

you can check out more info about it at the official website:

www.thelookingglasswars.com

go go into the looking glass banana

downtown - everything's waiting for you

finally downtown is living up to the expectations. in the past wee i have discovered some really great places to go! let's see the first was casey's irish pub (which i learned is my boss' husband's bar! i knew he owned one, just didn't know which one). also the redwood is a great bar, great atmosphere (it's pirate themed!) and great food! and it's only a block away and open till 2am! also a block away (and on the same street as the redwood) is cafe cafe, a place with great breakfast and sandwiches. but my favorite place (3 blocks away) is pitfire pizza. it's delicious food, cool decor and they deliver! though, i have yet to try that out. pitfire was so good in fact i ended up going 3 times over the weekend... taking different people every time. they're open till 10 every night, which is great since so much of downtown just shuts down at 5. and they've been busy too when i've gone at typical eating times, which was nice to see. also nice to see was that more people lived down here than i realized. and with a ralph's opening june hopefully downtown will be hoppin'!

and for my fellow bsg-ers:

some super fun news

now you can re-enact your favorite scenes!

so say we all -go go banana

battlestar g[eek]lactica

thanks to ml and y's constant praise of bsg (as the popular kids call it) on friday night, i am frakin' hooked. i totally got sucked into the marathon that was on monday and now i can't wait for the season to start! while i am still not entirely clear on everything, it certainly is a great show... though still not as good as my veronica mars :)

i alos learned that the scifi channel will be running one of my fave shows, jake 2.0. can't wait for that!

and who saw american idol last night? i am so glad it's back!

i know it's short and uninteresting, but i must run off to the gym and i am trying to post more... so i'll try and keep them short so i know i don't need to spend an hour at the computer typing it up and proofreading for errors... you're all intelligent you can figure out ahve = have :)

go go banana!

the biggest loser

i didn't see the finale, but i did see a couple of the episodes and what the contestants on the show acheived was amazing, they look like completely different people! so where do i sign up so i can take like 3 months off of work and just work out and eat right w/ a personal trainer? of course it's easy to lose weight when that's all you can focus on. so while i'm happy for them i'm also a bit jealous... i wanna have ripped arms like the guys ended up having at the end of the show, but i don't have the time to spend all day in the gym... pay for a personal trainer and chef to make sure i work out and eat right.

not that this is stopping me form continue to do what i'm doing... but i am considering looking into joining a gym so i can work out on the weekends (as the company gym is only open during the week) that and the gym closes at 8 so i can't always make it there. i'm thinking about 24 hour fitness... plus they have the biggest loser program and they have personal trainers and such so i would probably see results quicker. the work gym has trainers but they really just give you something to follow, it would be nice to have someone there making sure you do it right and pushing you.

and if you hven't already you must check out tower records going out of business sale... i got 27 cds for like 50 bucks. awesome!

up in the gym just workin' on my fitness

i don't care what ml says, i love fergie's new song! :)

i have gained 17lbs.

not ok.

so i have re-signed up with weight watchers (did so last week) and have already lost 4 pounds! woo! i'll be back in my "skinny" jeans soon! a big part that has helped is ka and vita g's after work workouts, we've been kickin ass! last night i burned like 1300 calories. so i'm working out super hard and determined to actually be in shape by my birthday in february. it's my present to myself!

i also realized i had 6 days of vacation left that i needed to use up so 4 day weekend! yay! and tomorrow tori spelling is having a yard sale and mr and i are totally thinking of going. i loves me some spelling. i really miss her show so notorious, it was so hilarious.

speaking of shows, who's watching heroes? and if you're not you should be! and this season of veronica mars has been heaven, oh how i'll miss my weekly dose of some good vm while we wait for the new episodes to begin up in january. and if you haven't checked out 30 rock you need to that tina fey rocks. i heart her.

and if you haven't seen this music video from an episode of how i met your mother you truly are not living:

hilariousness

no autographs please...

yes, this is me in television debut... thanks to mr for making this all possible! ;)



go go famous banana

it sticks to your paaaanties

ppms or psuedo pms... to which i have kq to thank for... thanks... i attribute ppms to my irritability yesterday morning, i almost yelled at someone in the cafeteria for being in my way. i did feel much better after consuming some food, but man i hate the bloated feeling... but thankfully i don't need to use one of these (see video below). i know that this should not be funny...but it is. especially when your boyfriend makes it into a song, if yor're lucky i'll post it w/ my next update! okay off to hell we go!:



go go bloody banana... ewwwwwwww! haha

love actually

so this is what it feels like... coolness. it really is indescribeable. in dating i always hoped it would move into something more than dating, but you don't know for sure if the other person feels the same way or your kinda like well if he wants to move in that direcion i'll go along and see what happens. but w/ mr i know he feels exactly the same way i do. i had made a mixed cd for him and so he returned the favor... his was far superior as he actually mixed the songs together (how fancy!). when i got to his place he said that before he gave the cd to me he wanted to tell me something (i totally knew what he was going to say, since i was feeling the same way). he fumbled his words a bit and apologized for that and said he had rehearsed what he was going to say like 3 times before i got there (how cute is that). he told me that he's never felt like this before and that he has never been so happy with someone (especially this quickly) which led up to the grand finale of him telling me that he loved me... i cried a little it was so sweet and of course i told him i loved him too. it's weird, but in a good way weird how much i feel like i've known him forever. i feel like not only can we be partners but best friends. it's something i haven't felt before. i think he might be the one. crazy, i know. but i do! and to top it all off he is amazing in bed... seriously. amazing. omg. i have to give an example, those who are squeamish of tmi do not read on...

so last night i went to his place for dinner, we went out and when we got back were watching tv and went to have some dessert (wink wink) now we've had dessert before and it's been real good. but last night mr gave g 2 helpings... w/ in a minute. i have never had that before... it was awesome. who knew i was multi-dessertic... i'm still in awe.

and on that note... i'm off to the gym i want to be in shape for my man... haha that sounds so lame.

-go go satisfied banana

myspace: the new cupid

yes, i met mr (the new boy) on myspace of all places. he emailed me about his like for the same music and such. i've gotten similar emails before and sometimes respond though they usually ended up going nowhere. but this time the guy was really cute and his profile was really funny (if you're on myspace you can check my profile and find him (the picture below is his profile pic... how cute is that?)). we emailed back and forth for a week and then got together and really hit it off. we eneded up seeing eachother twice that weekend and then spending sat night and sunday together at coachella. and i even went over to his place on monday and we had dinner and talked for hours, it was great. he is coming over this weekend and we are pretty much spending the entire weekend together. i can't wait to see him tonight, it feels like it's been forever.

and yes, you'll have to meet him soon... not sure when though. though i think the two of us will be in long beach on the 20th for pride... wanna hang w/ us ml :).

head over heels for reals

the banana has found himself a mcdreamy!



i can't begin to describe how much fun we have together, finally a guy who isn't afraid to say "i like you" and wants to see what will develop between us. it's so refreshing... and he's absolutely adorable to boot! (as you can see above) he's funny and sweet and genuine and complimentary and everything i could hope for. i keep pinching myself to make sure it's real.

i want to write more... but gotta head to the gym, i'll update more laters... it's how i keep you coming back for more!

-go go super happy banana

dirty boy

yeah so i went to drop of some stuff to mb last night (some shirts that are too big for me, a mix cd since we love the same type of music and share our new finds and a little gift since he had a back week last week) and we ended up making out and fooling around a bit... which including fooling around in his building's laundry room... i've never felt so dirty in a place of clean *devilish grin*. i have no idea what this means, but it was fun. i just don't want to lose him as a friend because we have such a great time together and he's so much fun to hang out with. we haven't really talked about it, so we'll see. well i gotta hit the gym, the banana will be ripped by june (or at leats better be), so i gotta make sure i work out as much as possible.

go go off to the gym banana

shirt tales

making shirts is fun! i made this one and another (pic to come soon).

it's funny cause it's true!



cause i can't and i won't and i don't unnhhh!

i'm punk!

go go t-shirt making banana

i'm so vain

ok, i'm sorry, but i think i look totally cute in this picture. sure my arm looks a bit flabby, but i'm working on that (it's already a vast improvement over what it once was. and kq and ka will attest to my kick ass "guns" hahaha!) and yes, that is pdp on the left. this is from the night out a couple weeks ago. the club has a photographer walking around snapping pics and then they post them on the website, it's pretty cool! especially since they take pics of their extremely (well a couple of them) hot go-go dancers!

ok that's it, just a little vanity, especially since today in an abd.

go go i'm really not this vain banana

red dress

so the club was a blast! of course, it was a sugababes theme night for the release of the single red dress. it is huge and has a great layout, they play the music videos on these huge screens (totally wanna go back), plus no one robbed me! yay! thankfully jp agreed to go w/ me and her friend c from san diego (sdc) came along too. we get there and pdp is already there w/ one of his lady friends. we get somethign to drink and talk w/ them for a while. then it's time to hit the dance floor. we follow pdp and his friend down, but we get lost from them, but i was like whatever. so i danced w/ jp and sdc and while i was hoping to end up dancing w/ some guy i ended up beating the guys off of jp and sdc w/ a stick. and yes, this is a homo club, but the breeder boys were out in full force. all of the suddin pdp pops up and is dancing by me so i try to stealthly dance w/ him and he just moves away... then moves back and i try again and he moves away... and eventually we get separated by the crown. then we go upstairs and outside for some air/water. we go back in and find pdp and his friend upstairs and talk some more. then i go down to dance w/ pdp and his friend and pdp is pretty trashed at this point so i just kinda danced w/ his friend while did his own thing. pdp leaves and jp and sdc come down and we dance for a while, give the cute go go dancer some money (he was sooo hot) and then head home for the night. so, i didn't meet anyone and still have no idea about pdp (jp couldn't tell either, cause at times it seemed like he was flirting, she was confused as well). but overall it was a really good night, it was nice to go out. yes, i need to work on talking to strangers at a club, i've just never done it before and i'm not quite sure what to do. it's a lot easier to just email someone and not hear from them than to be rejected in public!


so all in all a good night. this weekend was pretty good as well! finally i was able to clean my apartment, it's so nice to have a clean place again!

and in boy news, not to jinx it or anything i have been talking to this other guy from match, so we'll see how that goes!

go go busy banana

push the button

i talked w/ my co-worker jp this morn and she was looking for something to do while her friend is in town so i'm totally going. i'm going to "push the button" for life, if you will (push the button is a sugababes song for those who don't know) ml also made an excellent point, i do need to say YES to life. i have nothing to lose by going. so what if he didn't invite me for the reasons i want, i could meet someone tonight! or not, but it doesn't matter, i know i'll have fun w/jp and her friend either way.

ml i totally feel like i'm in that episode of friends where rachel lets monica make all of her decisions, haha. so what should i wear tonight :). thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

go go get your groove on banana!

oooo fancy!

check out my new favorite songs list over to the right, fancy no?

it's from this really cool site www.pandora.com that takes musicians and song you like and finds more music like it. it's quite fun. of course it takes it a little while to get the hang of it, but the more musicians and songs you put in the better it gets. i'm already making a list of new cds i want! so now you'll be able to see what music i'm enjoying (cause i know it's been such a concern of all of yours) and even listen to a sample (when you click on the artist or go to see my entire list). there's some good stuff there, check it out!

ok more pdp news. i talked to him online last night. after he had emailed in response to emailing out the pandora site above to people. in his email he mentioned that a club in weho is doing a sugababes (love them!) night tonight. and i can't tell if he was just informing me since he knows i like them or if he wanted me to show up because he's going to be there. i tried to get that from him, but couldn't tell. so the real question is do i go to tonight or not? part of me wants to go, but i'll feel really lame going by myself. the other part of me is like don't go you'll just set yourself up for something bad (what i don't know). that and i have a really early morning tomorrow (in fact i should really be working instead of writing about this, hmmm priorities, haha) for work and we all know i can barely make it in on time as in and i need to be here at least 20 min earlier tomorrow.

go go in a pickle banana

p.s. finally, on american idol chiken little was sent home. he should have gone home last week because melissa mcgee should still be there.

homo hoodlims

yes, so this weekend was not the great weekend i was hoping iot to be. ok fine, the date turned out to lead no where, no big thing. sat morn and afternoon were good, pilates and then lunch w/ mb and the evening started out well enough at the abbey we had drinks, we laughed. mb was there, said hi. made a new friend, we'll call her armani j, since she works at the armani on 3rd street. on our way to rage i even saw ck (the date from friday) and we said hi as well. it was all downhill after that. in part it is my fault, i had too much to drink, but i didn't expect one of my own people to steal my wallet and my phone. just when you think the world isn't such a bad place, you get smacked right upside the head. and of course there were lots of other things that happend that night that i don't remember, luckily vita twin and sven were looking after me to make sure i didn't do anything too crazy (because seriously i almost did some stupid shit). they also helped me home as i really wasn't in the greatest condition, not a proud night for me and we'll see if i ever drink again. so of course i made a few offerings to the porcelain god, but to top it off i got food poisoning so i couldn't even keep water down the next day... ugh. i canceled my atm card and credit card, had my phone shut off and ordered replacement cards so i could actually have money at some point (the asswipe got about 50 bucks as well). and just today i went and filled out all the stuff to get a new license which will now be here in 2-8 weeks (that's kinda a big gap don't you think). got a new cell phone and luckily i had written down all my phone numbers a couple weeks ago, phew! and now i need to go fill out a police report about my stolen license, it's just such a hassle while this person isn't worrying about anything. life lesson, don't be so trustfull of others. that and i hate myself for being as stupid as i was to drink that much. i am very disappointed in the banana. and in other ways it's good that i'e had this lesson so i am twice as careful from now on, just sucks that i had to go through it.

in other less depressing news (sorry for the downer, but life isn't all fun): pdp and i haven't spoken in about 2 weeks, but i just got an invite to his b-day party. i rsvp'd, but i really don't want to go to it alone because i need someone there to keep me in check around him. because for like the 3rd night in a row i've had a dream about him. let's just say it's a very enjoyable dream that's only making me set myself up for disaster. why is it that some people just get stuck in your head and won't get out? it would be fine if there was something going on between us, but there isn't so it's torture.

and of course my place is a mess and i get home and i just can't deal with it, gah. luckily tonight is tito's taco night along w/ the amazing race! woo! at least there's still tv (i love you tv).

go go welcomed to the real world banana

i'm such a great guy, but...

ahh, it's the line i'm doomed to hear after every date i go on apparently.

so it's "just friends" for me and the guy from friday, whatever, like i'll ever hear from him again. oh well, such is life. vita twin sven and i are celebrating st. patty's tonight so i'll be getting my drink on and all my worries will just disappear, haha!

i do want to wish the best of luck to y in her marathon tomorrow, pump those crazy legs!

go go buzzed banana.

green w/ envy

i have a date for st. patty's day!

that's all just wanted to share, and gloat, and rub it in just a little, haha!

go go back in the game banana

homo says what?

an interesting article i thought i'd share:

on the study of homosexuality:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/09/60minutes/main1385230.shtml


go go (only had a 2% chance of being gay, phew i lucked out didn't i!) banana