14 posts from February 2009

Today is the first day of the Season of Lent. Are you giving anything up for the next 40 days?

yay - i found the question.

im giving up excuses, bullshit, stress, alcohol, and cheetos.

no more excuses so that i can get more done.

bullshit to have less nonsense on my mind.

stress to live happier and to avoid letting lil' things bring me down.

alcohol because it sucks anyway.

cheetos because i absolutely love them to death, and want to see if i can do it. (damn - i have a bag at home...) (this is the challenge...)

Do you ever worry that your online reputation could hurt you the next time you're looking for a new job?

very much so.  it may even hurt me when it comes to dating. we, the google generation, can find out more about each other by just entering our names than maybe a resume can show.  resumes are supposed to drive the reader into seeing how smart and qualified you are. but facebook and other social networking sites (including blogs) show readers how much of a social person you are. i work in the consulting industry and one 'test' we have, that often occurs in interviews is asking the interviewer this question 'would you mind sitting next to this person on a cross country flight?'

there are many iterations of that question, but in the end, is this person someone you wouldn't mine interacting with for long periods of time? 

having attended carnegie mellon, and now working at ibm, i know one thing is for sure, its better to be well rounded, and actually have some soft skills, than just being a super duper nerd.  personality is important.

i dont worry that my blog will get me in trouble, in any way, or hurt my future jobs, but it was something that crossed my mind. i would hate to ruin the reputation that i currently have, because i am, despite the opinion of others, an asset to my company, and i totally represent it, even when im not working. 

okay. back to work...

What makes your best friend uniquely qualified for that role?

i have a couple of bff's but they all have the awesome quality of being great listeners.

its not as easy of a task as you may think.

no one is perfect, but having me as a friend requires some good ears. i talk a lot, but am also a good listener, or at least conscious of how to become a better listener. its something im working on.

my site is launching this weekend and due to me being sick, i havent been able to do much work (as you can see from the many recent blog postings - NOT).

the site is still supposed to launch this weekend though, except we'll have a huge (WORK IN PROGRESS or UNDER CONSTRUCTION) sign on it.

im currently working on 3 product reviews and some random articles that may be of interest to some.

im pretty excited and cant wait.

ill update the blog on my life later on today. im swamped at work, trying to get over this huge learning curve, if only i had a skateboard...haha...get it...

anyway. last night i was too tired to function. i was in bed before 9 pm, and woke up around 7 am.

im still sick...

yo what the hell is going on?

i flew last year and was greeted by emergency vehicles because they apparently thought the flight wasnt going to land according to planned.

last month one of my flights was delayed because of ice on the wings.

ive had many delays due to 'maintanence issues'.

and now. the crazy landing in the hudson, the crash that killed everyone (due to ice on the wings) in buffalo, a crash in brazil recently, and today i just read about a plane that split in 3, in amsterdam that killed at least 9 and seriously injured 50.

wtf

fml

i fly every week. at least twice. crossing the streets in nyc may be dangerous, but when plane incidents/accidents/disasters occur, it sort of hits close to home and makes me want to stay up during my flights, instead of falling into a deep coma.

my coworker believes the planes that are being flown today are simply old and falling apart.

how many more crashes will we need to stop using them?

career change in the future?

maybe.

fml (again)

today marks my one year anniversary of my individual independence day (thx betty for the term) aka me being single.

ive been home sick for over a week, and now im in this lil' mind fuck of wanting to celebrate and then again feeling sorry for myself. its so stupid. i know all the things i should be. all the right things to think, or feel, and yet, im still here, choking on this damn cough.

today marks my 2nd financial goal of the year being met so i actually feel pretty good.

i look back at 2008 and think damn, what a waste. besides a couple of hot outfits, shoes and bling, what do i have to show for it. 

well - glorisel's bday weekend will always go down in history as being the best bday celebration ever, but 08 was pretty much me, getting the red carpet pulled from under me.

2009 is a new year and in less than 2 weeks i will be struttin' my stuff on the beautiful beaches of PR w/ 5 other hot mommas.

i have to plan something for my mejorcita and myself to make up for her absence, but one trip at a time...one trip...

i hope everyone has an amazing weekend - either watching a cuco movie or spending valentines day, a 'holiday' im totally against, with some cool loved ones.  if it were up to me, id opt out of the overpriced pre-fixed dinners, but this year im going to the Marc Anthony concert with one of the hottest mommas in nyc, so i will, like many others, will participate in one of the largest advertised conspiracies of what we call america.

this is my thing - if you're going to love me, love me every day equally, not more on this day, or less on another.  consistency is bliss. and too much of a good thing is never bad - its wonderful.

smoochez

So I slept from about 8 am to 11 am. 

I was in incredible pain all freaking night. Tossing and attempting to turn.

Then my mom calls me at 9:30 to ask me if I took my antibiotics which of course I didn't because you have to take it with food, so she starts complaining (like always) telling me I need to eat and get out of bed. I'm like hello, i couldnt sleep last night, at all...

This freaking sucks so much. She just called again to pretty much say the same shit, I almost want to turn my phone off and not hear from anyone.  Obviously, because no one is here w/ me, they don't see me coughing the whole night, or the way I cringe when i have a coughing attack and my stomach feels horrible.  My voice sounds worst, my throat and ear now hurt and my brain feels like it's melting and trying to escape from my nose. 

Oh - this morning i had the shivers for about 2 hours.  wonderful.

Honking, tailgating, excessive lane changing... There are so many things that can drive you crazy when you're behind the wheel. So tell us: what's your driving pet peeve?

I hate when people switch lanes without signaling. Boy does that tick me off...or when people speed up when you're trying to get on the highway...like dude...come on...don't be a d|ck about it.  I had someone try to speed up last week and I still made it on. Then the person made it their business to go around me, to 'cut me off' and give me the finger. I was like alrighty then, have a great day - you freaking asshole. I was switching lanes anyway.

i have about 18 days left before i head to Puerto Rico w/ my girlies to run in the World's Best 10k and I haven't really started training hard.  3 weeks ago i went skiing, and couldnt run that week because of my crazy bruise/soreness. the following week i had a lot of deadlines and worked late. this week i feel like road kill.

the only plus (it all depends on how you look at things) is that this liquid diet that im working w/, my lack of appetite and the amount of coughing that im doing will have my stomach looking a bit better than i planned in my bikini.

now i dont suggest people go out and get the flu to lose weight, but hey. im losing it.

thats one way of looking at this disaster in a brighter light. oh and i owe my coworker 15 bucks for not working out last week.  great. (we said we'd pay each other 5 bucks a day if we didnt work out-talk about money being the motivating factor in our lives)  i think my coughing should count for something though...ill try to talk to her about it...