101 More Things You Never Wanted to Know

Vote 4 ME!

2008-07-11T13:36:23Z

http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=778tU57ftK83LJ250iAq

Wow ok big news!

2008-06-13T13:17:18Z

Ok so i know i havent posted in forever, and most of you dont care anymore. The good news is i will soon have internet at home, and will be able to post more reguarily.

The other good news is dan moves in with me this weekend.

Just had to share

An Australian website choose the 21 Gayest songs of all time--and yes, I have them all

2008-03-12T20:50:16Z

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/2060/And-the-Gayest-Songs-Of-All-Time-Are.htm

#1-15 have music videos shown bellow

You might be a Redneck Jedi if:

2007-12-12T19:29:05Z

You might be a Redneck Jedi if:

1 You ever heard the phrase, "May the force be with y'all."

2 Your Jedi robe is camouflaged.

3 You have ever used your light sabre to open a bottle of Bud Light.

4 At least one wing of your X-Wing is primer colored.

5 You can easily describe the taste of an Ewok.

6 You have ever had a land-speeder up on blocks in your yard.

7 The worst part of spending time on Dagobah is the dad-gum skeeters.

8 Wookies are offended by your body odor.

9 You have ever used the force to get yourself another Bud Light so you didn't miss an interview with any of the Allisons on CMT.

10 You have ever used the force in conjunction with fishing or bowling.

11 Your father has ever said to you, "Shoot, boy come on over to the dark side...it'll be a hoot."

12 You have ever had your R2 unit use its self-defense electro-shock thingy to get the barbecue grill to light.

13 You have a confederate flag painted on the hood of your land-speeder.

14 You ever fantasized about Princess Leia wearing Daisy Duke shorts.

15 You have the doors of your X-Wing welded shut and you have to get in through the window.

16 Although you had to kill him, you kinda thought that Jabba the Hutt had a pretty good handle on how to treat his women.

17 You have a cousin who bears a strong resemblance to Chewbacca.

18 You suggested that they outfit the Millennium Falcon with a redwood deck.

19 You were the only person drinking Jack Daniels during the cantina scene.

20 When your light sabre opens, it plays a few bars of "Dixie."

21 You want to send your speeder bike to Orange County Choppers for overhaul.

22 If you hear . . . "Luke, I'm your father...and your uncle."

not that this is a surprise or anything

2007-11-29T17:56:21Z

Your Life is 56% Off Track

Right now, you're taking things one day at a time.
Some things are going well, but you can't help but wonder if you're getting the most out of life.
It's time for you to slow down and reflect a little. You can change your life - but it's up to you!

Are You Living The Wrong Life?

Dan rocks my socks

2007-11-02T21:41:13Z

Hey all, Dan and I went to the Halloween parade in the village on wednesday. We went as Shrek & Fiona (of course!)

Since my camera is film (yeah i know, mock away) I have none of my pics developed yet. However, I am making a scrapbook of images I have stolen from flicker and other websites. Feel free to puruse it. So far, none of me and Dan yet.

But here is one i made of him with my phone--enjoy the sexy greenness!

BEST LINE EVER--

as soon as we left my house in costume, kids and adults everywhere were cheering, commenting, honking horns, clapping, and taking out pics. As we were waiting for the bus to NYC on rte 46, people even slowed down, or swerved to see us.

So I asked Dan,"do you think we could cause an accident?"

An he pauses, shrugs slightly and says, "I dunno. Do you wanna dry hump?"

Perfectly deadpan. It was great!

Happy Halloween All

2007-10-31T17:16:13Z

queen_merla @ 2007-10-31T09:18:00

2007-10-31T13:19:36Z

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
5
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

picture

2007-10-31T13:16:37Z

Hey all, have had no internet connection for a while, so I have a lot to catch everyone up on. But no time.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

And here is the first pic i have got back from the wedding

ARRGH!

2007-10-25T18:42:21Z

A work-related rant. [lj cut text="read at your own risk"]

Our biggest markets (sort of like trade shows) are in January. Traditionally we begin producing info for them in October. By December, I am usually staying here till 11 at night and skipping lunch in order to get shit done.

So Alex, the owner of the company, has decided to completely revise the way we produce catalogs, tags, etc. for our entire new product. Instead of having individual catalogs for each rug collection, he wants to do what one of our competitors, Shaw, does: have one giant book, (updates semi-annually) which has ALL the active collections in it. I don’t think this is even possible, mind, since Shaw has 33 running collections, and we have 67.

This, in and of itself, would be a HUGE undertaking, which I am not sure we would be able to complete in the allotted time, with a fully trained and experienced staff. The problem? Our staff is anything but. In the entire design portion of the marketing department, only myself and only myself have been here more than 1 year. The departmental director just celebrated his one year anniversary!

To make matters worse, one girl who works here is inept in the EXTREAME! She makes so many mistakes it is comical. I gave her one collection to work on, and she layer out all the rugs upside-down! I had her flip them, and change the order, and she forgot to flip them, changed the order, but didn’t change the order of the tags--so they were labeled wrong! Even the simplest assignments i can give her take so many revisions it would have been far quicker to pass the job to an orangutan.

Ok, other major project: our broadloom (Carpeting) department is effectively DOUBLING this year, and so it needs displays, boards, posters, catalogs, etc for all its crap. I am the only person on staff with the experience necessary to handle all the eccentricities of broadloom.

So we are plodding along (already behind schedule) and Alex decides to change the ENTIRE way we are doing the cumulative catalog, when we are 13 collections into it! Now, instead of organizing by design number and keeping multiple colors of the same design together, now we are organizing by coordinating colors. We are GRAPHIC designers--not INTERIOR designers! How are we supposed to match a rug for the living room with one for the dining room or bedroom?!?!?!

Actually, after being here for a while, i am pretty good at it, but even so, Alex's tastes are different from most people's, and, of course, he is the final arbiter. SOooooo. . . I proposed we print out all the rugs, and pair them up, and present them for his approval. Of course, he doesn’t like the time lag that involves--but from our point of view, better than doing it twice!

There is NO WAY this is getting done in time. I can do a collection in a day (once alex has approved the pairs), even one as intense as Noury 2000 (our largest), but the new girls are no where near that pace. And there is broadloom, and a ton of other shiat on the desks.

There is also another HUGE project, which we had all (the WHOLE department) worked and ENTIRE week on, only to find that our #?@?#%$#@?$#@ boss, the marketing director, Dave, gave us the WRONG SPECS on, and we need to do ENTIRELY over!!!

An update on the chub toad

2007-10-19T21:29:03Z

For those of you who are new to my life, my kid sister, and best friend, is studying abroad for a year, first in China and next in Japan. (her nickname is chub toad)

Here are some updates from her:

[backstory: apparenly no one in China is used to seeing a woman as tall or as heavy as my sister, so they tend to stare and or snap pictures whenever they see her]

From Christine:
1) I've lost track of how many people have taken pictures of me. Without permission too! One family even plunked their children in with us and snapped away, completely ignoring the fact that we could speak Chinese by thanking us in English and humming Christmas carols. I kid you not.

2) People will detour out of their way to just look at you.

3) Shopkeepers will insist on getting you into their shops by speaking pidgin English (take-a look-a). Sometimes my friend (who's been in China for a year and a half and speaks Chinese fluently) and I would shock them by saying, in Chinese, "You know, if you speak Chinese we CAN understand you"...but that gets a bit tiresome, doing it time after time.

It also sounds like she might have met a boy with a bit of a crush on her, but then, maybe thats just how I read everything:

Tonight when I went to eat dinner I met a new friend. He came to my table and sat with me, and started speaking to me...for once...IN CHINESE!!! I was so overjoyed! I held a long conversation with him, only struggling to remember vocabulary once or twice, and you can imagine how much that boosted my confidence in my speaking abilities. He also complimented my pronunciation. He only speaks English very slowly, although his reading and writing abilities, he says, are better. Asian teaching methods do not foster conversation opportunities, even in language class (although our classes are different) so I can easily believe that. It felt so nice to not have the chance to retreat to the familiarity of English, and be able to hold my own in a Chinese conversation! We exchanged phone numbers and free times, so hopefully I'll have similar experiences!

ill & work

2007-10-19T21:20:25Z

I really do try to update my lj more than once a week or once every 2 weeks. It is tough when I dont have internet at home.

I was also out sick for the end of last week, and beggining of this week.

These past couple of weeks have been really hectic, we are entering our busiest time of year at work, and Kat & I am the only member of the ENTIRE marketing department who has been here a year (I have been here 3.5) but with all the firing and quiting. Not only are the new staff inexpeiranced, they are also inept. Dave, my new boss (the drug-using, divorce-undergoing, never-has-his-mind-on-the-job, couldn't-market-his-way-out-of-a-paper-bag) hired them, and his hiring policy is to say "yes" to the first person to walk through the door.

Seriously, this one girl, Heidi, freelanced with us for 3 weeks, and didnt do a single thing either quickly or well. Dave himself had determined not to hire her, told us he wasnt going to, and then did--cause he couldn't hurt her feelings.

Anyway, things are beyond crazy here. Alex, one of the owners, is completely over-hauling the way we market, well, just about everything.

Let's see Brand new system + inept, inexperienced staff + world's dumbest boss = disaster!

Oh well, it could be worse, my old boss Matt could still be around.

Why?

2007-10-16T22:18:58Z

Why is there another national treasure movie coming out?

Desert Barbie slumber party playset & Saturday fun

2007-10-08T22:47:42Z

Spent most of Saturday hanging out in NYC with darkmagess. It was a lot of fun, we ate on India row, and walked around all those little shops in the Saint Mark's area. You know, when I was a kid, that place was pretty worn down, and when my dad grew up there, it was a slum--now its a hip, artsy, and expensive place to be. Just goes to show how much times have changed!

Anyway, aside from remenisence, had a great time, and looking forward to doing something similar again.

She showed me this great shop http://sabonnyc.com/ which had some really nice scrub. Which turned out to be great, cause after I got home, I showered and then Dan came over, so I was all fragrant and soft.

Leila (my insane muslim roommate) was actually pretty nice about it--and didnt give us a set deadline (as she usually does). She decided to go over a friend's house, so Dan and I had a nice, leasurely visit, instead of a crazy "ok we have 48.35 minutes till she returns and complains about a male in the house during Ramadan"

Personally, I think she dislikes him cause he's Jewish (partially), but I dont think it is a consious thing on her part.

Anyway, I think the reason she was nice was I kind of blew up at her that morning. All that week she had woken me up when she gets up, before sunrise, to pray and eat and brush her teeth and stuff like that. But I hadn't said anything, cause I knew she didnt do it on purpose. Anyway, Friday night, another Persian friend stayed over, and when they woke up to do whatever it is they had to do they were LOUD! Laughing, telling jokes and singing in Farsi, banging pots and pans as they cooked--and so I was PISSED!

I got up and was like, "stop being so insanely rude!" and she was like, "oh it was weekend--we didnt think you would mind"

!!!!

So I shouted something about the desert princess barbie slumber party playset and how I didnt want it in my house again, and tried to go back to sleep. It was before 5 in the morning!

arrrgh! anyway--so thats that. I HAVE to get my hair dyed this week, Dan's friend has a wedding I am going to next weekend, and I haven't done my hair since may!

I am wearing this

In which I look awesome, by the way.

Design of the week

2007-10-08T15:26:45Z

So, I submitted another set of ads I did to istockphotos "designer
spotlight." Not only did i get in, but this time, I am the DESIGN OF
THE WEEK!!!!

http://www.istockphoto.com/design_spotlight_details.php?ID=13618

queen_merla @ 2007-09-28T11:28:00

2007-09-28T17:04:03Z

Dan's uncle, who is in marketing, got great seats to the Mets game a couple of weeks ago. We got right up front, in the reserve section, and it was an entirely different kind of an experience.

First of all, they wipe the seat off for you (which made me giggle), they give you menues (which i handled with my customary lack of grace), and finally, you are surrounded on all sides by corporate America.

Dan quickly pointed out the similarities between all the members of the party in front of us with "Is there a factory in somewhere Indiana that I dont know about, pumping these guys out?"

This one guy looked like a blonde version of the guy smiley muppet. (you know, from sesame street?) and Dan and I spent a large portion of the night mocking him behind his back.

And Dan's uncle was taking Tom Brady (N.E. Patriots) to the game, so I got to meet him, too. All and all, good times.

This is STUPID--we all know I am Slytherin to the core!

2007-09-12T13:23:33Z

Hogwarts Sorting Hat: Based on Myers-Briggs Personality Typing

You are a GRYFFINDOR!As a Gryffindor and as an STP, you are adventurous, impulsive, and value heroism. You enjoy challenges, and are risk-taking, adaptable, and practical. Since you value freedom and flexibility, you dislike structure and may bend rules that you feel are too stifling. When faced with a practical problem, you approach it with courage, flexibility, and resourcefulness. You are also analytical, logical, and pragmatic.
Take this quiz!

Quizilla |
Join

| Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

Anyone else want one of these? Or just me?

2007-09-12T13:09:06Z

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-2208586-6993626?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1B6PPTJZSW2WHZ4KC04Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=288448601&pf_rd_i=507846

blue star on ebay

2007-09-12T12:59:46Z

So i have a blue star now on ebay (50 positive transactions) and they send you a congradulatory email when that happens. Big deal.

The email also contains the following lines:

Download and print your Blue Star Certificate and display it proudly. You've earned it! (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it, get it here.)

Really? Does anyone actually do that? So, I have decided to be the first. I will download the certificate, print it on Ivory Linen paper, Frame it, and hang it in my office at work--just to see what people say.

waaaaaant daaaaaaaan. . .

2007-09-07T21:16:40Z

Dan comes home tomorrow--thank God!

Buy your milk on Amazon. . .

2007-09-07T20:59:09Z

(dont forget to read the comments)

http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Whole-Milk-Gallon-128/dp/B00032G1S0/ref=cm_ciu_pdpimg_prodinfo/105-0921585-3598005?ie=UTF8&s=gourmet-food

Going Commando

2007-09-07T20:28:36Z

Sooooo, SNBC was here to do a TV spot about Nourison as part of a segment they are doing on small business. Even though it was friday, therefor, we all had to dress business formal. I chose a white pillar dress, which has a knit body cover, then a linen over-cover, and then a white crochet "lace" on top. Since it is 3 layers, and i was wearing light blue undies, i didn't think it would be an issue.

I checked my full body mirror before i left, and I looked fine, but the lighting wasnt that strong. As soon as i got to work, and glanced in the mirror in the ladies, the florecent lights had intesified the blue color--and it looked like I had a neon blue behind.

so i took them off.

i have never gone commando before, let alone to work, and it is . . .interesting.

meet the parents

2007-09-06T17:21:31Z

So, Dan met my parents last weekend. Not for long, we had lunch while they were passing through to move my brother into his dorm. And my dad made dan look at pics of his African Safari trip which dan proffessed to be interested in--and I think he actually was--but still.

(side note, my dad killed 2 Gemsbuck, greater kudu, red hartebeest, warthog, duiker, steinbok, and a
zebra. he gets the horns and the zebra skin as trophies. He also lost a LOT of weight tramping through the desert)

i would say it all went well, and everyone was plesant. still it was disapointing in one sense--my parents have never met one of my boyfriends before, and so this was sort of a big deal to me. when i asked my parents what they thought of him, however, my dad shrugged and my mom said "he seemed nice enough, just a little quiet". Then they went back to thier much more important issue of my golden-child brother.
`
sigh. while it most certainly could have been worse, I was hoping that they would react with something other than thier usual reaction to me--that is to say, supreme indifference.

watch me market the crap outta rugs

2007-09-05T13:44:51Z

Soooooo, the double page spread "advertorial" that I designed, wrote
ALL the copy for, and pushed through to Alex despite resistance from
my boss (the new marketing director, Dave) was such a good idea that
one of the Editors at "Rug News" (a trade magazine/website/support
system) wrote a blog about it. (PS an "advertorial" is an advertisement designed to look like an editoral story.)

See blog here:

http://www.rugnewsblogs.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Blog&mod=BlogTopics&mid=67D6564029914AD3B204AD35D8F5F780&tier=7&id=63114013BCCE4697B981B1EE242148D6

See the advetorial here:

http://beta.nourison.com/Main.aspx?FORM=OAD

Luis

2006-04-24T13:33:52Z

makes me happy