so as i was telling my best friend happy birthday, my dad called. He told me that my grandmother (his step mother) passed away this morning. Apparently she had the flu, was too damn stubborn to go to the doctor and it drained her and she died.

Leslie wasn't my blood-grandmother. My grandpa al (my dad's dad) was married to this wonderful person ( Read more... )

So I just got back from a leadership training thing from work. Holy cow! I wish I took this thing 5 years ago! SOOO much information, it's unreal. I feel like I need to take a few days just to digest it, but I wanted to get my main points out (here) and also have it available for all that read it to have the chance of getting something out of it as ( Read more... )

ok... so i will have a really good entry tomorrow (i promise!). I was in leadership training all day today and GOOD LORD!!! I should have taken this class YEARS ago!!! sooo flippin helpful... it's amazing, though, because EVERYTHING that snowblind did, was WRONG... (in the demoralizing/making it an unhappy workplace, way.)
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in case you were wondering who's going to 'win' the high-def, it would be Blu Ray.

Toshiba offically 'quit' today.

what does this mean? Go out and buy a ps3 for 400$.

I did this last year, and i will do it again this year... before you do your taxes, READ ME!

These are the things that are tax deductable:

-student loans (interest)
-mortgage interest
-property taxes
-anything that you buy for your job (if you are a teacher and buy school supplies) and you ARE NOT reimbursed.
-anything you donated to charity ( ( Read more... )

cake stuff:

* 2 cups flour
* 1/2 cup cocoa
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup sugar
* 3/4 cup mayonnaise
* 1 cup water
* 1 teaspoon vanilla

topping:

* tub of coolwhip
* chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, evaporated milk
* butterfingers/heathbars/whatever.

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I get up this morning and open a webpage. This is what i see:

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My company put out a game called "Mass Effect". It has sold 1.3 million copies before xmas. (that's considered doing VERY well). The game has a sex scene in it, that doesn't show anything except an alien boob and a butt silhouette ( Read more... )

ok.. it's been 5 years since i cut my hair. (except for the occasional split-ends cut off and what-not). I have been waiting to cut/donate my hair for 5 years. (that's a long time!)

so, i finally did it... here are the pics:


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