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Maranda
25 June 2007 @ 11:32 pm
Hey folks...
I'm setting up a brand new journal - I've hopped through and added a few of you, but I can't remember who all of the screen names belong to and whatnot, so if I haven't added you don't be offended. Just toss me on and perhaps send me a message. :)

New journal screename: misscreture

See ya there
 
 
Maranda
13 September 2006 @ 01:52 pm
We've gotten so much cool stuff lately!

Yay for Halloween World!
Everybody check it out. Best place. Best prices!!!!!!!!

9225 Carlton Hills Blvd
Ste 28-31
Santee, CA 92071
619-448-9BOO

:)
 
 
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Maranda
17 June 2006 @ 11:29 pm
i'm so fucking bummed out. i wanted to go out tonight and have some fun really badly... but i started getting a headache around 7pm. we went to the mall to get a father's day present, and by the time we got back i really wasn't feeling well. now i have a migraine, i feel nauseaus, and my shoulders and back hurt all the way down like it does when you have the flu, or a really bad migraine.

before this i was having an amazing day. dusty and i washed my car, and then my dad's. we pulled the cars onto the grass, and ended up having a full on water-fight with the hose and pitchers of water. the shower after that lead to some amazing sex, which led to another shower. :) and then we munched on some chips and did the shopping thing, and here i am now. had to flake out on doing anything because i feel so shitty.

my mom and dad barbequed even because i asked them to, and i could hardly eat it. stuffed down about half a piece of chicken and a few fries... i just feel bad... depressed... i don't have all the time in the world or so many chances for such a good day, so one day starts going really well, and i get sick.

i'm downing some pills, and going to lay down. dusty took off to drink with some friends (i'm not going to force him to stay in just because i don't feel good, like a lot of people would do), so i think i'll gel in front of the window and try to fall asleep.
 
 
Current Mood: depressed
 
 
Maranda
15 June 2006 @ 10:22 pm
just had like my 3rd really bad spontaneous dizzy spell of the day. i guess i should go to bed :-/
 
 
Maranda
12 June 2006 @ 07:02 pm
Yeah... So I haven't posted in a while.
To those of you who get offended when I don't read your LJ, sorry, haven't felt like getting on LJ lately. Get over it. :-D
I've been working and sewing a lot.

Aside from that, some cheap meaningless EBay Auctions. Just cleaning out the closet and gettin seller points. Cheapo stuff if anyone's interested. :)
 
 
Current Mood: good
 
 
Maranda
27 May 2006 @ 11:35 am
...  
Ok I was going to write but don't have the luster at the moment.

Woke up kind of bummed out this morning. I want it to pass, it should.
Dusty is sleeping, but we're supposed to go to the swap meet and then to Sea World... I don't know if I'll be able to get him up in time. :'(

On another note, got my lip (labret) pierced yesterday and a cool shirt I bought off of ebay got here.

 
 
Current Mood: okay
 
 
Maranda
23 May 2006 @ 09:44 pm
.Q.  
Q: What do you do with a case of Microphone-Penis?

A: )
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
Maranda
22 May 2006 @ 07:01 am
Well yesterday was quite busy indeed...

The morning started out a little stressful what with my father trying to be a controlling jerk, but we worked a way around that. I won't bother getting into it because it's not that important to me. Crystal and I had plans to get together and start working on some designs and what not, and get out there and look around for ideas. So the morning started off (after the dad thing) with Dusty nearly running out of gas and me having to go out and help him out. From there I went to my grandmother's house to pick up the sewing machine, where we realized the pedal was missing and looked for it ALL OVER the house. We couldn't find that damn thing ANYWHERE. And she is in the middle of getting her living room repainted... so everyhting was a mess at her house too. Eventually my mom came over to help us look and brainstorm where it might be, and probably an hour and a lot of stress later we found it in the back of my dad's car... hah!

So after that I dashed home to put on a face, and Crystal showed up. So her, my mom, and I took off to the thrift store. Unfortunately it was Sunday and sundays SUCK, so the good thrift store was closed and the other one had shitty things at HIGH prices. From there we took a stroll around the Yardage Town looking at fabrics and patters, and my mom bought us the basics that we need to start sewing with. And by this point, for some reason all three of us were just beat tired and dragging. My mom wanted to go home to spend time with my dad, and Crystal and I decided we wanted sushi. So we met back up with Dusty and went to Kirin Sushi in Rancho SD.

The sushi was amazing of course! Our bill only came out to about $30 even though we had 3 rolls, an appetizer, and she got a huge beer. We'd decided on our way back we would stop by all the stores that were down the road: Michaels, the 5 Dollar Store, Khols, etc. So Michael's was the first, and as soon as we walk in we hear an announcement that it's almost closing time. Then we, again, realized "Shit! It's Sunday." and nearing 7pm so everything was closing... We got kicked out of every store we tried to stop by after that. Ended up taking a romp through Target, and then to Wal Mart, the only open-lat(er) stores in the area. Everything was pretty disappointing, since so much stuff out there SUCKS right now. At least at Wal Mart we were able to buy some patterns and brainstorm a little.

From there we decided to be gluttons and get more food, so we swung by Papa John's and I had my first PJ's pizza since I quit over a year ago!! And mmmmm... it was good. We spent the rest of the night practicing altering throw-away t-shirts into a design that I want to cut some of the Death Dance shirts to. Another friend came over, and we watched a horror movie or two. They had some whiskey, but I have to work this morning so opted out of that, and I ended up crashing around 1am. Now everybody is passed out when they were supposed to get up with me!! haha Crystal and friend are totally out on the couch and no amount of coaxing can wake them up, and Dusty woke up enough to roll back over and fall asleep again. hahaha Its ok though, they were all up til like 5am drinking!

Anyway... as for me? Off to work!!! I start at 8, but there's going to be traffic! UGH. :-D
 
 
Current Mood: good
 
 
Maranda
20 May 2006 @ 08:07 pm
Day off tomorrow, thank god! I'm so friggin tired!!

Dusty had a show last night. Took tons of pics... I'll post some later... Probably after I also get the others from Darkman.

Humm what else is there to say? Almost crashed 4 times on my way home last night because I kept falling asleep... And I fell asleep over my keyboard after I got home... and then went to bed, and didn't hear my alarm going off for 10 min this morning!!

And for now? I guess nap time.
 
 
Current Mood: tired
 
 
Maranda
17 May 2006 @ 09:26 pm
I won a "contest" thing at work for kicking ass on the phones! A free $50 ProFlowers order! I don't really want flowers... but there's fruit and chocolate available too!! EEEEKK!! *bounce* I feel special. ^.^
 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
Maranda
16 May 2006 @ 10:51 am
Things have been great! My job is going so well. I'm great at it and I love the company. I'm working for a total corporation, yet they're not evil fuckheads! Nobody cares about how I look and dress... I've gone to work every day with my hair pulled back bearing proudly shaved sides of my head (ok ok I have a little regrowth I need to shave off soon), and haven't been asked to take out my piercings. And have dressed my own way every day and have only recieved compliments instead of reprimands from any higher-ups! On top of it, they take time to let you know if you're doing a good job, and my team lead came up to me the other day and told me that I'm doing great, and that she's going to do what she can to make sure I'm hired on permanent! They gave me a Jamba Juice gift card for doing so well (and note, I'm getting this special recognition out of 300 seasonal CSRs) and sent out an email through the company recognizing a few employess for doing a good job, and my name was in big bold capital purple letters!! ^.^ I'm just excited about all this because this place is like a hidden treasure. They wont restrict hairstyles, piercings, makeup or clothing in any way, or secretly judge you by it (I was a little worried that my hawk and septum piercing might hinder my chances of being hired on, but they really do judge on performance). On top of it, they're good at letting you know when you're being noticed. They had catering all last week, to minimize employee stress during the mother's day rush. AND they added extras... One day they went so far as to buy us all Jamba Juice (the largest size too, mind you) just because it was busy and all of us CSRs and phone staff were working so hard. And yesterday they had some people going around and passing out Red Bulls... It's just really refreshing knowing a company like this even exists, seeing as all of these big corporations just abuse their employees: pay them shit, give them nothing, and dictate how they look. This place is the opposite. And they know that a happy, comfortable representative makes happy customers... so instead of just saying "If you don't get sales you're fired!" they're like, "Here, have a smoothie and keep going at it." (And no, we're not judged on our sales, we don't have a quota, except to try to appease any and every customer regardless of how irate they may be... oh now I feel kind of dirty... jk)

Oh GAWD! Now enough of that subject.

So I think on Sunday Crystal and I will be meeting up to work on a few of our projects. She's going to try to have some Death Dance mascots sketched out for me, so we're going to work together on that a little. And the rest of this week I'm going to work on getting the back room in my house converted into a nice sewing room. Get the sewing machine over here, get a table and all that jazz set up so we have a nice place to work on our designs! ^.^ I'm going to register us a dot com, but I can't start working on that until my computer is back up.

Yes, yes, my computer is still broken, but my amazing Dusty has been bringing his computer over here so I can get my internet fix. My dad does have a computer, but I don't like using it, and it doesn't have any of the nifty programs I need like photoshop.

So once I'm done with this I'm gonna go get a face on, and then bounce on the bed until Dusty wakes up. We're supposed to go to Sea World today!! We have those fun passes so we get in for free. I WANT TO PET DOLPHINS!! I can't wait... EEE I'm getting excited already! Love love love.
 
 
Current Mood: happy
 
 
Maranda
12 May 2006 @ 05:59 pm
I want this jacket but it's bidding is already up to $120

 
 
Current Mood: envious
 
 
Maranda
09 May 2006 @ 10:03 pm
Things have been looking up lately… I have a GREAT lover, a GREAT friend (that's you Crystal), and a GREAT job!

This job… on top of it just being a great job it gets even better... Ok, not only did I get this killer temporary position that pays well, gives good hours, and I can look however I want… but on top of it, I thought I was going to be stuffed in a small call center jam-packed with computers and elbow to elbow with the person next to me. I was so surprised when I got my assigned computer this morning and walked up to "G-92" and saw a pretty nice, spacious, comfy cubicle!! Kick ASS. And I never get the feeling from anybody there that they think they're too good for me, or above me in spite of seniority. Oh! And they CATER BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AAANNNDDD DINNER! Pretty kick ass place. I mean, I have to wake up at 4:30am to be there on time, and I'm not dreading it! AWESOME! I'm soooooo hoping to be hired on! Thank god my voice is coming back.

I hung out with Crystal yesterday (my day off) which was pretty kick ass. We never don't have a good time together. :-D We wandered around Parkway Plaza wandering clothing stores and such, then went to Grossmont Center and had the girl at the MAC counter do our makeup. We were starving by then, so we went to her friends apartment (where I proceeded to COMPLETELY forget how to parallel park!!) and made her feed us steak, potatoes, and green beans.

I spent some boredom time today laying out clothing ideas… I've got some stuff I want to make… and I talked to my mom about it so she's gonna get the sewing machine here and get everything set up for that. And then Crystal and I will be sewing goddesses!

Ahh.. I'm SOOO tired. I'm still WIPED OUT from the fucking AMAZING SEX we had earlier!! Yummmmy… Mmm… I'm gonna go to bed, actually get some sleep tonight… Dream about more Dusty + Me SEX.
 
 
Current Location: bed time!
Current Mood: tired
 
 
Maranda
05 May 2006 @ 05:51 pm
eeeuuuggghhh....
i just got this job at this call center. the company is AWESOME. kick ASS. but i'm totally sick.. well... actually the thing is, i'm NOT sick... but... MY VOICE IS GONE!! and we're supposed to go on the phones TOMORROW!! ohhhh geezie! lots of cough medicine. tea. hopefully it will be better!

and in other news... i had amazing sex last night!!
 
 
Maranda
04 May 2006 @ 03:07 pm
:-D  
I'm posting from work. OMG WORK! How cool is that?? That I have a job. AND can play on the computer! ^.^
 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
Maranda
02 May 2006 @ 03:15 am
I did the work out thing twice tonight. Once with my mom earlier… and then my friend Dustin called me and wanted to go so I went again. I didn't work as hard the second time around, but I did burn off at least an extra 250 calories on the treadclimber and then hit the weights/toning machines. We pooped out fast because I was tired from earlier, and he's a chubby stoner ;) who hasn't been to the gym in 6 months. So we slipped into our swimming gear and got in the pool.

It was creepy. As I was changing into my bathing suit in the locker room I could hear a man's voice coming from the pool area. So I thought it might be a janitor or something, so before I changed I figured I'd look. I peeked around the corner and it was just a guy in the jacuzzi. He didn't see me, and I didn't look around too far. So I went and changed, and when I came out the guy was there alone, totally talking to himself [as he had been the whole time] and he was bent over with his torso hanging out of the jacuzzi like he was beating off to the jet!! [totally fuckin serious] I just made a wide circle around him and walked over to Dustin and told him the dude was talking to himself and it looked like he was getting off having his dick sucked by the fucking spa.

The guy got up and left shortly after I walked past him. So we did some laps in the pool and then floated around and chatted for a while. Tested out the sauna, which smelled like balls… Well actually it smelled like hot wet wood [don't get too excited, I really mean wood… like from trees] but at first I thought it was balls. We laid in there til I thought my eyes were going to pop, then took a dip back in the [now freezing] pool!!

Now I'm at home trying to occupy myself. I don't know what to do… I probably should just go to bed but I think that will feel too lonely right now. [yeah shuttup] I wish the pics from Release the Bats were up on Drunkrockers already! Dammit I'm too impatient.

Oh yeah I guess for a pic update. Got some more back from Isabella Valentine. And the shoot today with James Blinn went great! I have a CD of images [a photoset] that I might show one or two from later, and I'll be getting more from him later.

I don't know... I feel kind of down...



more shots from Isabella Valentine April 27, 2006 [yeah nudity warning] )
 
 
Current Mood: morose
 
 
Maranda
01 May 2006 @ 09:25 am
So I have a photoshoot today... and what am I doing? Dilligently getting ready and gathering outfits? No. Checking LJ and MySpace? Yes! Hmm what CD to bring...

On another note: I stayed at the gym last night til I burned 1,000 calories. More than I ate. Pretty proud. Hitting it again this evening with my mom.
 
 
Current Mood: A.D.D.
 
 
Maranda
27 April 2006 @ 09:19 pm
So yesterday I had a shoot with Isabella Valentine for a photoset to submit to either Razor Dolls or a new site that's working on it's launch. We had a great time shooting and the pictures came out awesome! We have a few that we retouched to use for portfolio use (because the sites let you do that) but the rest won't be out until they end up on either site.

I shot with her again today for a set for her site Photography by Isabella and we got some really cool stuff. I can't wait to get my copy of the CD, and she's processing some images from that so we can have some to show off tonight, so I'll probably have some more to show off a little later.EDIT I have the pics now!

In other news, I'm really happy because I got hired into that temp position!! It's $9/hr for training, and $10/hr after that. I start my training days next week, Thurs – Sat from 8am to 5pm. Those days are going to be a bitch what with traffic, but other than that I should be working at like 6am and carpooling with my mom so it won't be so bad! I'm really happy about that!

We're going to Release the Bats tomorrow with Crystal. We're meeting up with her after work and hopefully gonna make it there before 9pm so we can get in free (because I'm more than BROKE) and probably staying the night. Hopefully we'll do the Sea World thing on Sunday. And I may have 2 shoots next week, too. (I know I have one on Wed with Jeff Davidson.)



on to the pictures!! [nudity warning, btw] picture heavy )
 
 
Current Mood: happy
 
 
Maranda
25 April 2006 @ 06:25 pm
So today I was up at 8:30 am for that job interview. I was half an hour early. It was a cinch to find. The place is actually right around the corner (not even a mile away) from where my mom works, so if I get the job, we can carpool and save both of us TONS of money. The interview went pretty well. It was short and I took two evaluation tests, one for Customer Service and one for Data Entry. But I'm pretty positive. I really hope I get the job. It seems like a good place to work, and a totally easy job. It's mostly taking orders for flower bouquets. I'll probably know by tomorrow evening. *crosses fingers*

My hair had faded into all kinds of colors again (pink, ugly purple, blue, gray, and even green in some spots), so I needed to get it touched up. I didn't want purple anymore, so I went to my grandma's and bleached it out. Now it's mostly blonde and black, but it still has some residue from the color left in it. It looks a little pink. I want to go back over there and try one more bleach application to see if I can get an even blonde tone. If so, I'm going to keep it like that for a while. If not, I'm going to slap my pink hair dye on it and have this color hair once again. I hope I can find somebody to shave up the sides for me!

I have a shoot with Isabella Valentine again tomorrow. We're trading services. She's going to help me get a photoset for either Razor Dolls or another site that I've been looking into (that isn't launched yet). And in turn I'm going to pose for a set for her site Photography by Isabella.

I'm also talking to Jeff Davidson about working on a set for RazorDolls and James Blinn on trading work for a set for either Razor Dolls or that other site. And lastly, tentatively being considered by Mark Wangerin for a CD cover.

Joyjoy. Later on tonight after Dustin is off we gotta pick up a couch and take it over to Dusty's. It has a bed in it so he can get rid of his bed and have more space for band practice and his music equipment.

...I still hope that job hires me!
 
 
Current Mood: hopeful
 
 
Maranda
24 April 2006 @ 11:57 pm
So I had a pretty good day today! I was up for a couple hours just messing around on the internet and emailing about four different photographers. Later on I get a call, barely wasn't able to pick up. Then I realized I had 3 missed calls and 3 messages on my phone from my "Account Executive" at Apple One (a staffing agency I went to). The first two messages weren't important, but the one she just left was an assignment offer. That is pretty awesome seeing as I went to the staffing agency once before and the woman (a different one) acted like she wanted nothing to do with me. This woman was very optimistic, put me through a bunch of testing to see what I was capable of, and, even though I was JUST there last Thursday, already called me for a job! So I called her back and she told me a little about the position she wanted me to interview for, but the thing was the hours were from Midnight on, or 3 or 4am on up. I didn't really want to accept those hours mostly because I wouldn't be able to go out to ANY clubs or anything. So she actually was like, "Well, let me see what I can do…" and next thing I know she's calling me back saying that they're willing to let me work a 6am shift! So I have an interview with this place tomorrow, and if I land it I get my first temporary assignment. It will be pretty neat, since the place is right around the corner from my mom's work, so my mom can get her hours changed to 6am too and we can take her car and split the gas. It'd be WAAAYY cool for both of us!!

After that I popped a Lean Cuisine in the microwave and seduced my boyfriend. He's so sexy… I was just going to play with him a little but we ended up having this AMAZING sex today. Nobody was home, so I could really let go and go all out… Ahh… I still get shivers!! And after we took a shower together.

I had to re-heat the Lean Cuisine after that of course… but I was damned amazed that it tasted SOOOO GOOD and was only 180 calories. How cool! My mom got home sometime around then, and we took off to the gym together. I did a ton of cardio and burned a little over 750 calories, and did a ton of toning after that.

It's amazing… I've only been working out for about five days now but am already feeling and seeing improvements. The other day the belt I always wear around my hips (not in the belt loops) fell off my hips!! So I get to wear it one notch tighter. My endurance and flexibility has already increased greatly. I can even work harder on the equipment already. The other day I tried a stair climber for the first time (one of those things that is a real revolving staircase) and I tried it on level 6 and almost died right away, had to turn it down. Today I was on it on level 10 for 20 minutes!! Climbed like 105 FLIGHTS of stairs. Those things are so cool!! And I discovered a new ab machine I didn't see there before. It's awesome, works upper AND lower abs… I'm loving it!! (Ewww isn't that McDonald's slogan?)

After working out my mom and I stopped off at Albertsons and got Boca burgers (its been so long!) and stocked up on more Lean Cuisines and some other stuff since it was on sale.

Came home, ate dinner with my lover. Soaked in a HOT bath and read a chapter of "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevski. Pretty good day.

So now I have an interview at this place at 10:30am. It's working for Proflowers.com I think taking and confirming orders and payments, etc. I'll update more on that tomorrow!! :-D

*EDIT*
And I just beat Yoshi's Island on Gameboy Advance! Alrighty, time to go to bed. Gotta get some shut eye for tomorrow!
 
 
Current Mood: happy