! trANNsformation BaBy !

Started out this morning later than usual because Codependent stayed up into the wee hours of the morning and couldn’t get up early so she and her pup came to get me at 10:30. We headed over to her parents house in Half Moon Bay because the hiking trail is a few blocks away. Her parents house was a cool two story home - every bedroom has a fireplace - there’s windows galore, a waterfall wall (no artificial stone or anything - just a flat water surface) and the master bedroom also has a beautiful jacuzzi that overlooks the woods/hidden view of ocean. It was wonderful. Her parents were about to leave for Carmel - they head out every weekend. Her father was an attorney and part time fire fighter. Her mother a homemaker. She was nice and the house while messy was really spacious and airy. I wanted it badly. The smell of the woods were so nice and it’s like a hop skip from the beach. Nice joint.

We went for the hike and 4 hours later made our way back to the ocean. It was great - a bit grueling at times but her dog and she were able to do it and I found it challenging enough that it was time well spent. We went back to her house after taking the dog to the beach and ate steak sandwiches. Her parents had frozen steak individually wrapped (some company made it) and she threw it in the George Foreman grill and magically they were done in no time flat. AMAZING shit. I loved it. ON the trail we just had some triscuits and coffee beforehand.

It was truly wonderful.

Came home and soaked in epsom salts!

I’m beat - it’s 8:25pm and I’m thinkin of goin to bed at 9:00 or 9:30 so I can get up early to start cleaning the house. Yep, it’s GOT to be cleaned by tomorrow afternoon.

I’ve got Yoga in the morning at 9:30 with Codependent.

I had a grilled chicken breast (thank you trader joes) and an avocado crisis couple gave me last week. It was good together. I skipped the brown rice bowl I microwaved. I’ll put that away for tomorrow maybe…

Although it was overcast and the trail seemed like it would never end - it was nice to have company for a change

So ‘Bloggers’ retirement party at a bar/restaurant was nice. I managed to hug and kiss her - say nice things about her which were actually true and wish her the best. I stopped and got her a 35.00 gift certificate to Ross -she loves the store and a cute Mickey Mouse card. The food at that dive bar was not too good but everyone was drinking and they were having fun. Apparently the Agency we work for may keep her on for 12 hours a week so she’ll continue to get her retirement and stay under the 1300.00 per month earning limit for benefits. So maybe she’s not really going anywhere after all….
But she did hug me and kiss me a few times - she said, ‘I’m really glad you came Annie’ - I told her it was good to see her too. But I have no intention of ever being a close friend of hers again - she ruined that when her desire to ruin another couples relationship was stronger than our friendship.

Ah, we are so fragile….

I also met up with a friend today, yes - formerly YMCA now known as Researcher (otherwise known as the GREAT LAY) - he got a job as a research associate for UCSF. He wants to try for a long term relationship but honestly - I don’t think it’ll work out that way. I think it’s like a lust thing and nothing more. He’s lonely and looking for good companionship. We’ll spend some time together but my options are open. Guess my fuck blanket and that little bottle of lube that I bought when we were going out that never got opened will actually get put to some use - shit that reminds me - I need to get a mattress cover that’s waterproof because that fucker sweats in his sleep. Yeah, real romantic stuff here…. but a girl needs to be prepared. Honestly, I don’t know how long this will last. But I found it riveting when Latina told me she hopped up on her ‘friend’ and rode him till orgasm. Now I’ve never had an orgasm with a man and maybe because I’ve always felt so goddamn self conscious. This dude made me feel very free with myself and perhaps in a little time - I too can experience this for myself. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

So no one bothered to show up to Yoga this morning - well like the TEACHER. So that really fucking sucked. I mean there were six of us standing outside of the studio at 5:45am and wondering - WTF?! See, that’s what happens when you don’t have another instructor at 6am. C’mon guys - WTF? Oh well, I saw Codependent - we’re gonna try hiking in the morning - she hates to walk so we’ll see how productive this will be - over in her mom’s neighborhood. She said we might try ocean kayaking afterwards - that would be fun. Apparently, she’s been staying in the city instead of at her folks place because dude has been sober and he’s working as a food sampler this weekend. Last weekend he worked for one day and made 100.00 - needless to say she was THRILLED since that piece of shit never has a job. She looked at me guiltily and said, ‘He’s doing good so I want to be supportive.’ I just smiled and said nothing. Fuck, it’s not my burden and after a while - you realize that it’s really none of your goddamn business. You can just give advice if someone asks for it.

I called Crisis couple tonight and decided to get that over with after the retirement party. She’s hanging in there and gave me the latest stew of tragedy. At the end, she asked about me and I told her the latest. She was adamant about what a loser YMCA was and how he’s ‘an albatross around your neck Annie - a total loser - I’d rather you didn’t spend any time with him.’ Ok, Crisis - now tell me how you really feel. Oh well. I guess we all have an opinion and honestly - I know it’s not a long term thing.

Nuf said.

Meanwhile, I heard that Married - well she should be called separated - they are not even filing for divorce yet - is inviting that fucking no job, living with his mama, dope selling dude with a daughter to a camping trip with her friends and her boys. Now it wasn’t but a few weeks ago when her 5 year old was crying - now she’s going to introduce him to her Male friend. Fucking tacky bitch. I saw them in action last time and I’m sure he’s gonna be all over her in front of the kids. So sad. I honestly don’t even want to speak to her anymore. Sometimes, you need to just leave folks alone and let them sit in their own shit.

I guess you can apply that to me as well. But hey - it’s not like I’m marrying the dude. I’m just spending some time and having some fun.

Damn, I’ve said it enough right?

I stopped into a hair salon that one of the girls at work recommended and asked them about a straight perm for me. The dude immediately said, NO not right now - your hair needs to be longer. It’s too short and your face will look TOO BIG. Yep, we Asians can be blunt as fuck. In other words - your face is big bitch and that flat hairdo will make you look even bigger. I thanked him and walked out. Oh well. I guess I’ll try using the flat iron for longer even though I heard that it’s terrible for your hair? Oh well.

If I were thinner he may not have jumped to that…..

Ok, no beating yourself up.

Did I tell you I called into the Clairvoyant on Sirius radio after yoga one morning and was SHOCKED to get through - did I also tell you that she said - 2 1/2 years when I said - marriage’. (you could only say one thing - no elaborate questions or elaborate answers - it was called RAPiD FIRE) I was CRUSHED. But then, what the fuck does anyone know about that shit?

Next time, I’m gonna say ‘KIDS’.

and listen close the first time.

*recreation of Hee Haw song that I heard as a kid

I hate that Dale went home on Top Chef. We all know that Richard is going to take this home, I like him though… that stupid Lisa - the woman needs to just STOP trying to cook rice. She obviously can’t do it.

Can’t wait for Project Runway to start

For some reason, I’m tired as hell. The house is still a fucking wreck though.

Yesterday I went to yoga and saw Codependent - she’s trying to relax on her vacation from work. Wonder if I’ll see her tomorrow morning. Hopefully she’ll be there….

After work, I met up with Wildchild and her ex boyfriend ‘Misdemeanor’. Now Misdemeanor has known her since she was 24 years old, he was a player back then and never pursued a real relationship with her. They’ve always remained friends but started dating seriously again about 2 years ago - well he’s got a teenaged son who stays with his Mother, he just bought a condo and was working hard to make ends meet. He’s 43 years old. Well one day while he was working his retail job at JC Penney, a co-worker took commission for a sale he set up the night before. He found out about it and in anger decided to ‘get even’ with JC Penney management and shoplift clothing for his son. Well 250.00 ended him up in jail for shoplifting, he went to court and had to pay a fine as well as community service. After I heard about this, I told Wildchild to keep looking for a long term relationship - such lack of impulse control and irresponsible acts at 43 does not a stable life make…. so then she met Google man and the rest is history. Now, she brought Misdemeanor along because she wants to set me up with him - it was an impromptu meeting for happy hour and dinner. I met Misdemeanor a few years ago when they were dating and found him attractive as well as admirably enamored with Wildchild. Seeing him yesterday, I couldn’t help but think how ridiculous Wildchild can be sometimes? WTF?! I DON’T THINK SO OKAY?! Nice guy - but honestly I don’t need your scraps honey! Anyway it was a decent time and I really enjoyed the curry house I picked for us to go to… it was yummy AND I didn’t pay!

I’m fucking tired again, my house is still a goddamn mess but I am GRoomeD. yep, your girl is up to no good again….
But the magic has got to happen here so I’ll have this placed cleaned up tomorrow - but I’m not sure exactly when it MAY go down….

Meanwhile, Senorita (my latina coworker that went with us to New Orleans) has hit the jackpot with her ‘fuck buddy’ - he’s invited her to go to New York with him for July 4th weekend and offered to PAY! I asked her what she had in her pants to make a man want to pay so badly. She said she thinks he’s just ready for a relationship (40 years old - great job in Management with Coca Cola company for over 20 years, one kid with a bit of drama with the Mother, home owner and a fun guy) but she’s not sure if she wants it right now. But apparently the man blew her away with his athletic prowess in bed. He moved her around in 18 different positions without ever losing his POSITION. Yep. This Friday she’ll find out how ORAL he is…. Yep, a good life if you ask me….

Lucky girl. She told me she didn’t feel overweight with him because he was lifting her off of everything… shit. Must be nice…

Ok, enough shit talkin - I’ve got that goddamn yoga class in the morning and I’m thinking about doin’ the regular hike afterwards….I could be done by around 1pm and back to the house after everything by 2:15 - shower and then meet up with a friend for a bit before I head off to the Retirement Happy Hour for one of my co-workers I was once close with.

Man. I’m beat. Looks like I’m not getting my rowing class next month - I have to wait till july - it’s full. So bummed about this but I’ll be ok.

I had a long drive out to the middle of nowhere this morning and had a great experience with one of my kids so that was cool.

The speeding ticket I got on the way back during a downhill slope - WAS NOT.

Getting the camp paperwork signed was good, but finding out I’ve got 13 messages to work on tomorrow WAS NOT.

Oh well.

It’s been a long ass day.

My eating wasn’t great - but nothing scandalous passed these lips.

Like life, you take the good with the not so great and then you have a healthy swig

of Pure Valencia w/Mango juice.

Gotta get to bed - yoga at 6am!