[EDITED] - I chose to edit this post because it was worded poorly and didn't reflect my intent as I wanted it to be. I read it today and thought, "Say, that could really be taken wrong."
Today was my first day at my new job. It's a fun place and I'm happy to be working there. In the vein of Deeay and the whole "Space Station" bit, I'll be working at the "Sealab"... Yes, under the sea. Much like Ariel or Stormy. If this doesn't make sense, it's ok. It's just a secret code so I can refer to co-workers and specific non-job related antics that happen here at my work place without getting into any trouble. (This is clearly the edit...) Anyway, I felt like I needed to explain this because NOT discussing job-related information is basically one of my biggest responsibilities here. Those who know where I'm working should already know not to ask me about any specific information because, much like an ER nurse, I can get canned if I talk about anything. What I CAN discuss are funny things that may happen in the restroom or certain co-workers falling down stairs and such. I want to be able to tell funny stories like that, so when I do, I'll refer to my "Sealab" friends here at the "Sealab".
Also, I am a ninja. And yes, I do work for the CIA. (Not really.)
says MarissaD at 9/27/2005 09:09:00 PM
September 25, 2005
By request I spent this last week at my parents house, with my Mom, Dad, Sister, Bro-In, Niece, Fake-Sister-Best-Friend Misti and Almost-Nephew Davis. It was a nice week. Dad's birthday was Friday so we had a party for him on Saturday. It was fun and delightful. My sister had a scrapbook making party thing and I volunteered to babysit while they scrapped things. All in all it was a pretty good week.
I met Tina and Lindsey and Tom. They were Houston evacuees who went to stay with my Aunt and ended up coming to Dad's birthday party. Shoutout to Tina, as she reads the family blogs. Hi!
Davis is getting very big. Sadee is growing like a weed. I joked that she doesn't like me because she tended to cry when I tried to take care of her. I was able to make her happy during the scrapbooking so that made me happy. She really just loves her mom and likes her to be around. She likes people too, so when there aren't many around, she can get upset. Davis is running around like crazy and saying "Moe Moe Moe." I love it. He's so fast. It really doesn't seem like it was long ago that he was itty bitty. Very strange how fast it goes.
Adams game, Battle Carry, is coming out very soon. I believe they are trying to get it ready for next week. If you have any interest in games, please feel free to try it out or buy it online when they release it. They are only selling it online, so this one won't be in any stores. They are going to do packaging for the next game I think, not sure. This is a very stressful time for me in the process. When they are done, they basically have to just and hope it does well. Everyone is pretty positive, so I'm hoping for the best. I want him to be able to continue doing this. Say some prayers and tell anyone who plays games about it! We'll see how it goes.
Good grief I've blogged a lot tonight. I'm outty!
says MarissaD at 9/25/2005 10:41:00 PM
Every once in awhile Adam and I talk about those moments in your life where you've screwed something up so bad, you think back on it and cringe and heave at the thought of that thing you said or did. Stupid things. Mean things. Misunderstood things that should've been explained. Anyway, for my catharsis, I'm going to vaguely list those things and try to forgive myself mentally, though some of them I really shouldn't.
One of the first things that comes to mind is a time when I received a piece of jewelry (earrings) from a person that was somewhat close to me but not really so much at the time. I immediately blurted out "ARE THEY REAL?" This is one of those times that I wish I could 1.) take back or 2.) explain. Anyone who has ever seen me knows I don't wear jewelry. I have a very plain wedding band and a necklace that I got from Misti in high school and that's about it. The main reason is I lose things ALL the time. I lose my phone four times a day. So jewelry was kicked out of my life a long time ago. I received these pieces of jewelry and immediately thought "holy shit these might've cost a lot of money and I'm going to lose them cause that's what I do." So, however rude it is to ask if a piece of jewelry is a rhinestone or if it's real, my purpose had nothing to do with how much they spent on me in accordance to how much they liked me, but everything to do with whether I should get insurance for when I lose them. So, when I think back on that horrible memory, I can't take it back, that person is no longer in my life and there's no chance of me ever trying to contact them to explain. Meh. I hate that one.
When I first met Misti, I was incredibly mean to her. All the time. For no reason. I had no idea she would be with me still today. I don't know if she even remembers me being mean, but I do.
I was supposed to do a website for an old employer. I have a list of excuses why I didn't get it up when I originally said I would, but now it's been over a year and I still haven't done it and the domain is expired and I'm pretty positive they despise me. I offered to do the website because I knew how to do it. I registered their domain. Set them up with hosting service, which they paid for. Created the website and promptly lost it in one of my infamous hard drive crashes. After that it's pretty much just that I'm a schmutz. The really, really bad part that makes me cringe as of late is the part where I was on a plane with one of them. Three rows back. I saw him when I got on the plane and tried not to make eye contact because I felt so incredibly bad. I spent the full hour on the plane looking up ahead of me, the empty seat next to he and his son and told my self over and over to get up there and at least apologize. Again with the schmutz. I didn't have the balls. It's something I'm incredibly ashamed of. It makes me feel very lame. I've tried to convince myself to call them about a million times but that doesn't seem like enough. So instead I do nothing.
The next thing that I have done more than once is to break promises of presents. I tell people I am getting them gifts for various things. As a thank you, for their birthday, to make up for this or that and then I don't do it. I usually even have something specific in mind and I just don't go do it. Schmutz.
My dad paid for me to get my hair done if I would quit smoking. I mostly quit for about a month or two and then I started again. I wasted his money.
When I was about 13 I babysat a little boy and I spanked him. I don't think his parents ever spanked him and I've always felt like a child abuser because I did it. It almost makes me sick to think of it.
In 5th grade, we moved to a new town. Before we moved I was passing notes with a girl in class. The teacher caught us and took the notes away. I knew I wouldn't get in trouble, so after school, I took the notes back off of her desk thinking I would never see her again. My mom was coming to pick me up from the school and I was waiting at the front desk. The teacher and the little girl came and found me and the teacher asked me if I had taken the notes from her desk. I could've said yes and not gotten in trouble, as we were moving the next day, but instead I said I didn't take them. I don't know if the other girl got in trouble for it. I don't even remember her name.
5th grade again. Same school. I farted and sneezed at the same time during class. All the students laughed. After class in the bathroom, one of the girls blamed an unpopular girl in the class and I let her take the fall.
8th grade. History class. A group of the students had just gotten back from a ski trip. The teacher did something that made me laugh on the trip and I kept giggling about it during class. At first he laughed with me. It made me feel cool, so I kept giggling. After a few times of me interrupting the class to draw attention to myself, he scolded me. I had taken it too far. I was humiliated.
College. A friend that I hung out with went swing dancing a lot. I wanted to learn how so she taught me a few moves. One of them being the Charleston. I went with her and her family to their lake house with about 20 other people for July 4th weekend. She and her dancing partner were showing off their skills, so one of the other girls and I were back in the grass "showing off" our Charleston skills. I later saw myself on tape and saw that I looked like a drunk chimpanzee on a trampoline. I haven't done the Charleston since.
I'm sorry to P.V., M.D. and Greene, but I can't tell them and even if I did, they wouldn't believe me.
7th grade. I beat up a little boy who was about 2 years younger than me because he tried to scam me on a baseball card trade. He was smaller than me and I really embarrassed him.
And these are some of the things that I cringe about. There are others, but I can't think of them at the moment. I'm sure everyone has these. I really hate them.
So Janelle won the America's Choice competition again. Ivette, Maggie and April are kind of starting to get it now. I say kind of because they realize that people watching the show don't like them, but they think it's because BB is portraying them in a bad light. It hasn't crossed any of their minds that people are watching them 24/7 and discussing how they are PRE editing. High larious.
says MarissaD at 9/09/2005 06:45:00 PM
I haven't mentioned it because I didn't want to jinx myself, but I officially have a full time job. It's at a game company that does publishing and development. I'm pretty excited about it. I don't start until the 27th, but I found out today that I got it. Yay Yay Hurray!
says MarissaD at 9/09/2005 02:16:00 PM
Most of you know that I work with an online shoutcast station called Inside the Game. Some of our crew are in New York at the World Cyber Games and MTV.com wrote up a nice little article about us. Pretty nifty.
says MarissaD at 9/09/2005 12:57:00 PM
Oh sweet Big Brother...
So one of the best houseguests of all time got voted out tonight. Howie was pretty annoying at first, but as the show went on, I really grew to love him. He earned about 8 thousand awesome points after he got his lightsabers and went around the house as a real Jedi. I truly believe he is a Jedi. Except he got voted out and a real Jedi probably wouldn't have unless they were like all the lame ass Jedi who forgot what Jedi powers were and got slaughtered. Anyway...
I'm beyond thrilled that Janelle won HoH tonight. I actually think they would all take her to the final two because she is their Shoe-In for winning, they think. But just in case, I'm glad she won. I thought maybe they would chill the f*&# out with their shit talking since she's alone now, but no. They continue to be nice to her face and then immediately turn around and call her a liar and other such lovely things. Through out all of this I've heard Maggie, April and Ivette (and Jennifer) refer to Janelle as a (hide your eyes if you don't want to read bad words) bitch, slut, liar and a cunt. Yes. All of those words have been used. She has talked crap about them as well, but not NEARLY to the level that they do and she had the integrity to tell them to their face when she wasn't happy with them. People who watch the live feeds and report what happens all day are literally stopping their feed because they are so sick of hearing them talk shit about her. I'm not making this up. Then they wonder why America doesn't vote for them in the America's Choice stuff. Hi. You're all jackasses. That's why.
And of course Jennifer out in Sequester land is still acting like she's on the show. Still acting like a total bitch. I was so glad when James got there tonight and started smack talking back to her. When they showed Jenn and Rachel watching a tape, Jennifer was all about the snide comments. Suddenly when James does the same thing to her it's not acceptable! How dare he! Queen of hypocrit.
CBS is pretty lucky Janelle has stayed in as long as she has. I'm not the only one that prefers her over the other vile. Had she been kicked off, I'm sure their ratings would be suffering even more than they have been. Yay Janelle. Go Janelle.
If for some reason they do get her out, I would like to see Ivette get it. As much trash as she talks, she seems to have a genuine need for the money. I wish she would stop with the guilt trips about it though. It's a game show. Everyone is playing the same game for the same prize. She shouldn't be so shocked that April suddenly wants the money.
Okay I'm done. Go Janelle!
says MarissaD at 9/09/2005 12:17:00 AM
September 06, 2005
Hey Dallas friends and family, if you're interested in helping out with the evacuees in the Dallas area, check out this grassroots effort, The Rolling Duffel Project. If I were still in Dallas I would volunteer to help them, but I'm not, though as soon as I am certain of finances, I'll be donating. The project is still new, but it seems to be growing really quickly. They can use donations and possibly some manpower soon.
says MarissaD at 9/06/2005 09:48:00 PM
September 04, 2005
says MarissaD at 9/04/2005 07:46:00 PM
September 01, 2005
Back to Big Brother 6. I don't have my live feed anymore, unfortunately. I tried to squibble another free month by signing up with another email address and using Adams name, but when he called to cancel after the 3 days, they just cancelled it. No free month. Sad.
Now I have to rely on Hamsterwatch and Jokers Updates. There are people constantly posting what's going on and recapping what went on each day. Reading it makes me very sad.
Not sad because I can't watch it anymore, but sad because it's apparently getting really bad. April and Maggie have somewhat teamed up. They're still in it with Beau and Ivette, but they doubled up since Beau and Ivette are a real pair. The reason it makes me sad is because April and Maggie constantly talk shit about Janelle. They are so unbelievably jealous of her. They call her a whore and a slut and talk about throwing all her things away and deleting the pictures she's in from the HoH camera. It just sucks because they all make up reasons to hate her and then they actually believe them. And their reasons are ALL MAKE-BELIEVE.
I know she's going to get kicked out of the house, probably next week. Her odds are just not good. I don't know what they are going to talk about then. All season they've had someone they've created lies for hating and talked about them non-stop. Most of the time it has been Janelle. April saying 'there's no way America can like her.. the fans are pieces of shit' in response to Janelle getting America's vote. I'm glad that was at least aired. What they aired this week is sort of how they are all the time. Only worse. They talk all kinds of shit, horrible talk then when Janelle walks in, apologizes for winning what WE gave her, they say 'oh no, it's not your fault. it's ok.' Then as soon as she leaves 'i hate her i hate her.' *eyeroll* It boggles my mind that they wonder why feedsters wouldn't like them. BOGGLES.
As dramatic as April is, it wouldn't surprise me if she had a mental break down or tried to kill herself after she got out of the house because of all the people that will dislike her. Just saying.
What I really especially don't understand is why CBS didn't take advantage of all the back stabbing and shit talking they've done this season. I mean, the whole point of the show is to showcase drama. That's all they've been. Make-believe, hatred and drama. Ah well.
CBS will make the assholes look like good peeps and the people who actually aren't that bad look like assholes. The few times the Janelle/Howie side has talked horrible shit, they've usually done it to the face of the person they were talking about. Because of this, CBS is able to make them look bad and the other guys look not-so-bad. It makes me mad.
