Saturday, May 26, 2007
7:23 PM
"Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin
'Keep me groovin' with some energy."
Yep yep, it's official!! Carlos and I are moving our way to the Kissimmee/Orlando area June 2nd. We found a nice townhome to rent and we're happy about finally being able to get out of this area.
That means I'll be without internet for a couple days before our utilities get turned on.
In the meantime...keep reading the blogs I have linked on the left side for your entertainment needs!
Said By Nicole
Monday, May 21, 2007
1:57 PM
Let's Buy A Bentley!!
I love dreaming about "what ifs". It's one of those conversations that I enjoy having with friends. Today's topic is, "The Lottery".
I'm watching THS Investigates and they're talking about the more famous Lottery winners gone bad or dead (in some cases). I tell ya, people go from making $30,000 a year to winning multi-million dollar lotteries and they spend money like it's never goin' away.
Bentleys, several million dollar mansions, expensive and long vacations, ect. It's maddening!
It's easy to say what I would do if I won money, but only God knows. I mean, shit. I spend money like crazy and I'm not even rich!!! I can't imagine what would go down if you hand me a check for a few million.
BUT, the logical and intelligent side of me knows that true millionaires live below their means. That's how they are able to keep their money their whole lives.
If you make $50,000 a year you should live BELOW that in order to be comfortable and to save money for retirement.
If you make a few million you should live NOT in a million dollar mansion but a house maybe worth half a million. Drive not Bentleys but maybe an Audi or two. Having more than two cars is just nuts.
One winner got it right. She won 49 million and instead of buying a Ferrari, she bought a T-bird. Instead of buying a $10 million dollar mansion on 2 acres of land, she bought a 40 acre ranch. She lives modestly and because of it, she never has to work again and her money will last her a lifetime. She never stays awake at night worrying about bills and taxes like all of the former lottery winners do now. She lives the perfect life.
Now if I can only tear myself away from staring at that Louis Vuitton purse and that really hot Mercedes Benz, I should be okay.
Anyone wanna split a lottery ticket with me?
Said By Nicole
Sunday, May 20, 2007
1:45 PM
I Vote For Cigar In Her Meeeeeeow!
This is gonna get messy....
Tell me how Prez. Clinton could be impeached for saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." under oath...BUT good ol Dubya Bush is STILL in office after his little debacle???
Bush has signed off on an ILLEGAL and UNWARRANTED Wire Tap "project" going on with the NSA. Bush has broken the law...but yet he remains in office.
I don't see how this is fair? One president sticks a cigar in an adult intern's va-jay-jay then lies about it under oath and he gets booted from office....the other president signs off on an illegal law that allows our government to spy on it's citizens for no reason at all....
Which one of those scenarios affects YOU?
This is insane. Seriously.
All I gotta say is, they can spy on me all they want. I lead one of the most boring lives this side of the Mississippi....listening to my life would just lead to a comatose-style sleep.
"Go to sleeeeep...go to sleeeeeep...close your princess-like eyelids!!"
*sung by ALF...yeah ALF from the 80's....I never forgot that line he belted in one of the episodes...really cute I know.*
Said By Nicole
Friday, May 18, 2007
2:52 PM
What's Black and White with Victoria's Secret All Over
It's one of those days when I wish I could curl up on the couch with a bowl of fresh fruit and watch old black and white movies all day. A day when there's no work, no stress, no expectations.
A day I can put my feet up and just chill.
When I get into my "old black and white movies" mode, that usually means things are starting to work themselves out and my stress levels are heading back down to where they should be.
It's a transitional time between high-stress and worry to low-stress and happy boredom.
While I can't have that day today, I'm making the most of it by watching some old movies on TV Land and AMC while I work.
On to other news, I REALLY need to just finish the book I've been reading for a couple weeks. I'm thisclose to being finished but I keep stalling.
Ohhh and also, my Victoria's Secret 'The Sexiest Fragrances On Earth' collection just arrived!!!! I'm totally psyched. It has .25 FL OZ of Very Sexy for Her, Very Sexy For Her 2, (Yes they have part twos to perfume, apparently), Dream Angels Heavenly, Dream Angels Desire, Body by Victoria, Victoria's Secret PINK, and Rapture.
So I can finally smell like something other than Dream Angels Heavenly and Dream Angels Divine. I'm getting tired of those two fragrances since I've been sportin' them for years.
Wonder which one Carlos will smell me wearing today when he gets home. *giggle*
Said By Nicole
Monday, May 14, 2007
10:17 AM
THE HAIR KILLED HER!!! THE HAIR!!!!
This is Phil Spector, a music producer accused of murdering B Movie actress Lana Clarkson in Feb. 2003.
(Lana Clarkson below)
His trial is underway and I can't help but watch some of it on Court TV every day.
But I just gotta say....I would find him guilty just based on that terrible hairdo!!! See, you really don't want me in your jury....
Though, he has had quite a make-over since the beginning of the trial:
Granted, he still looks evil-as-hell and a tad insane but still..."innocent until proven guilty". *snicker*
On to other news:
I just found out today that Paris Hilton's middle name is Whitney. Paris Whitney Hilton....interesting.
No matter what her middle name is...it's about to be Paris "Prison Bitch" Hilton verrrrrry soon. Good luck with that Paris!
I see she's getting all pumped up for the beatdown she's gonna feel after the guards take their gloved fingers out of her ass and throw her in a tiny cell with a 300 pound Little Bertha who hasn't had "fresh meat" in a number of months....Good luck with that Paris!! *this isnt the vid, it's a pic...for the vid go to TMZ.com*
These are one of those times I feel blessed to be an average "nobody".
Said By Nicole
Sunday, May 13, 2007
4:26 PM
MY ASS IS ABOUT TO BE TOO LARGE FOR THONGS
Now that my parents have been told the good news, I can tell the world...
Carlos and I are expecting a baby in early Jan!! This will be my first baby and his second. (That is so sexy getting baby advice from a man who's "been there done that"...FILFs rock!!!)
Annnnnd...for those of you a little slow on the uptake, FILF is my made-up word for Father I'd Like To Fuck. Which, btw, is how I got myself knocked up in the first place. *giggle*
I just linked my pregnancy blog to this one...take a look! Just be warned, I'm sure it will get more graphic as the pregnancy progresses. Right now there is not much to report so things aren't "gross" or whatever at this point.
I won't spend a whole lotta time talking about the pregnancy in this blog since that's really what my pregnancy journal is for.
Oh and for those curious how far along I am since the baby due-date didn't do it for ya...I'm 6 weeks and 3 days along. Yep yep.
Yes I've been extremely moody. (Poor Carlos)
Yes I've been VERY bloated...OMG
Yes I've been peeing like it's goin outta style...especially at night.
Yes I'm horny as hell...that's one part of pregnancy most people don't talk about. (Poor Carlos...wait..."poor Carlos" nothing...)
Yes my hormones are causing my boobs to get bigger and also VERY sore. (Poor Carlos...you can look but DON'T TOUCH!!!)
Overall, Carlos is havin' a hell of a time with me.
Okay, all together now...."POOOOOOOR CARLOS!!!!!!" But hey, as they say in the movies when the woman is in the throes of labor and birth, sweating, crying, and cringing, "YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!!!"
I'm trying to enjoy this time though since I may never do this again. And I'm especially trying to relish the time we have before a baby changes our lifestyle. Children are a blessing but they are HARD fucking work from what every parent has ever warned me. Being able to just up and go to the movies whenever we want is a nice luxury that we won't see until our child is 18. And yes, I say 18. I will have his/her bags packed and waiting for them on the door stoop a day after their 18th bday. Noooo way will I have a grown-ass kid living with me if they are able to work and make their own way. But I digress....
So there it is...the news that I've been holding in for a couple of weeks.
NICOLE IS PREGNANT!
*Let's see how long it takes me to outgrow my cute thongs*
Said By Nicole
Saturday, May 12, 2007
3:17 PM
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Idiot's Scorn
John Waters is one of the best writers and directors. Writing such gems as Hairspray and Cecil B. Demented. I tell ya, the guy is a genius.
Well today while struggling to stay awake for the first leg of my 11 hr workday, I stumbled upon his new project....hosting a true-crime series on Court Tv called 'Til Death Do Us Part . It's basically recreations of actual husband/wife murders that has happened over the years.
So anyhoo, I was watching for the first time today and this episode called The Bog is on.
Now, I know overall, murder is not to be giggled at, laughed at, or even amusing, but this episode was really somethin else.
Basically, a couple who have only known each other for two weeks gets married so that she can start flying free on her boyfriend's airline in which he is a flight attendant.
Well 3 years and hardly any sex later, they get into a fight over the fact that he seems to flirt with another girl and he also doesn't seem interested in sex with his wife anymore.
They get into a really bad-acted fight that sorta reminds me why I only like watching these kind of shows when I'm desperately bored. Then she confides in his best friend and fellow flight attendant, a very handsome man.
Well after some time, she comes back from a vacation alone to hear her husband and his best friend arguing about something. When confronted, her husband finally admits that he's been having an affair and is currently in love with.....wait for it......wait for it.......HIS BEST FRIEND!!!!
[insert surprised gasps here]
Yeah, we couldn't see THAT one coming.
Well instead of doing what most women would do and that would be to say, "Wow, okay...ummm see ya..." This genius of a woman decides to wait until hubby's "best friend" is gone to threatend him with an axe.
Telling him that he CANNOT leave her for his lover and telling him that the reason she won't let him go is because "You are MINE. You belong to ME!!!"
At this point, you're thinking....okay, wild-eyed, bad acting, messy haired woman screaming with an axe in her hand....he's gonna die tonight!!
Not quite. He wrestles her for the axe, gets her on the floor, gets the axe away from her, straddles her and proceeds to strangle her. At this point, the wild, wide-eyed crazed look she once had is now transferred to his eyes while she just looks pissed off as he strangles her.
She dies nice and fast and without much drama after 30 seconds of this (verrrrrry realistic....she didn't even have fake marks on her neck).
What got me rolling on the floor laughing was the part right after he realized she is dead. He gets up and says, "Marsha??"
Well to speed this up....he winds up hiding her body in a bog in his backyard then getting away with her murder for some years. Then one day while he and his lover are in the backyard with some I think, (I stopped paying attention to write this blog) friends of theirs, the family dog runs to the bog and digs up a human skull.
So of course, at this, the jig is up for gay-flight attendant-turned murderer.
This is a pretty entertaining show. Bad acting, funny as hell plots, and of course being hosted by the one and only John Waters....you can't beat it!! Well you could, but make sure you don't leave marks and for God's sake...don't hide the body anywhere on your property....
Friday, May 11, 2007
3:00 PM
BEAUTIFUL ESCAPISMI'm finally back to reading on a more frequent basis! It feels nice to lose myself in some literature and it feels even better to finish a book and excitedly go through a stack of un-read books for my next adventure. Granted, my un-read book stack is quickly dwindling, but I'm trying to put off from buying more books until we move to Orlando next month. I hate moving....the packing, the lifting, the rental of a moving truck...it's all tiring. So the least amount of things I have to pack and move, the better. So far, our move is looking light since we don't have a house full of furniture to move at this time. That's the joy of a new relationship where neither of us has many personal effects. I left all of my furniture and boxes of memories with my soon-to-be ex husband. I came here with three suitcases and a purse....Viva Orlando....not the actor Orlando Bloom, though he is kinda cute....but the city which Carlos and I are headed......*Eyes the book I just started reading last night*By the by, I just finished reading "Beautiful Lies" by Lisa Unger....in my opinion, it was a 3 out of 5 stars. I liked the premise of it, but I didn't care for her style of narration. How she talks to the reader like we're a reporter, but yet she NEVER explains why she is talking that way. I thought maybe at the end there would be an explanation like she had been sitting for an interview for a newspaper about her "ordeal" but that never happens. 
Said By Nicole
Thursday, May 10, 2007
10:11 AM
The Human Brain...At It's BEST
It never ceases to amaze me how people can act or behave in a public situation. Carlos and I were at the movie theatre watching ads scroll across the big screen when all of a sudden an announcement cuts in with "There has been an emergency detected somewhere in the building, please use your nearest exit." Then the emergency lights started flashing as well.
Not smelling smoke, but trusting the announcement, Carlos and I proceed to the nearest exit and expect to be outside the building for a while.
As we get to the lobby, we notice a huge group of fellow movie-goers are huddled near the Customer Service desk inquiring as to whether or not this was a "real" emergency....
Okay peeps....what the hell is that about?
If someone tells me to leave the building, I'm NOT gonna stand around all non-chalantly at the Cust Serv desk to make sure it's REAL. My ass is gonna be at a SAFE distance outside until they tell me otherwise.
The good news is that, it was a false alarm. The bad news is, if this had been an actual emergency, I wonder how many of those people would be crispy fried right now....
Now, I'm not talkin about running out of the doors screaming and hollering like a mad-woman. I just mean, quietly and calming proceed to the nearest exit WITHOUT a detour to "chat" with the employees.
Another head-scratching episode happened a few days ago when Carlos and I went to Wal-Mart for some items. One of them, a reading light so that I can read my book in the middle of the night without disturbing him. We start off in the obvious section of Wal Mart....books. When nothing was found there, we extended our search to the sorta obvious section, Office Supplies. When that failed I decided to give the flashlight section in Sporting Goods a quick look-see.
It didn't really surprise me to find that a reading light would not be nestled among hunting flashlights, cap lights, and mini-pen lights next to the exercise equipment.
At this point we were out of ideas...
So while Carlos went somewhere else, I had a peek in Electronics....not there either.
As I made my way out of Electronics, I started walking through the clocks to kill some time.....no pun intended...or maybe it was. I was bedazzled by all the cool looking wall clocks they have out these days. I mean, there was one that was made out of a mini-pleather sofa cushion!!! How cute is that????
Then I notice from the corner of my eye, directly across from the clocks, hanging on the corner of an empty display shelf....READING LIGHTS!
I mean, how in the hell do these people figure reading lights should be grouped with CLOCKS and not BOOKS????
Did I totally sleep through the "How to be difficult and illogical" class in school?
All I gotta say is, thank the Reading Light Gods that I happened to take notice of a few cutesy wall clocks or that light woulda NEVER been found.
As a smart-assed side note: The reading light looks quite nerdy hanging around my neck when I read at night, but I tell ya, that thing works like a charm!
Said By Nicole
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
1:24 PM
CHOP THEM OFF PLEASE....
What is it about other people and MY brows that they don't take my word for it....they have to do it their way.
I have naturally thick brows. Thank God they aren't Unibrows, but still, they are very thick. When I say "thick" I mean, "Oh my gawd, there's a warewolf over there!!" thick. I mean thick as in caterpillars-on-my-face thick.
So when I go sometime without getting my brows waxed, they grow out to their fullest. Those are the times I dread walking into a salon to get them done.
They see how thick they are, I tell them "I'd like them THIN and arched." They say, "THIN??? or just CLEANED UP?".
Me: Uhhhh THIN and ARCHED.
Them: Okay
*I lay down on the table and they start the process. Five minutes and a lot of wax, trimming, and plucking later....*
Them: How is this? *hands me a mirror*
Me: Ummm, can you please make them thinner? These were just "cleaned up" and they look nice, but I want them much thinner.
Them: Welllllll, I don't think you would look good with them any thinner. They look nice like this.
Me: Welllllllllll, I would really rather have them thinner please.
Them: Okay we'll see what I can do.
*Some more wax and plucking later*
Me: *looking into mirror* Can you make them thinner? They look the same as before.
Them: I like them that way. *starts cleaning up hinting me that they are finished*
Me: Grumble....
So what's going on with this? I've only found a few people willing to make my brows THIN but they are in Jersey...
Now that I'm in Florida, it's a new area and therefore I have to go through lots of trial and error (mostly error) to find someone that will do them exactly the way I like them.
Note to everyone: JUST BECAUSE YOU MIGHT LIKE THE THICK-BUT-CLEANED-UP BROW LOOK, DOESN'T MEAN I DO!!!!
Wow, that felt nice getting it out....
Okay kids....go play in that polluted lake...momma loves you
Said By Nicole
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