At Home Sick At Home Sick At Home Sick Well, I've finally given in to my sickness. It's a crappy day outside, and I'm feeling crappy. Stress at work is not going to get my cold any better. However, I'm at home, and I'M STILL WORKING! There's just some stuff that I've got to take care of today, that I'm sending into the office and blah blah blah. There's also a lot of stuff that I need to take care of here at home, like wedding stuff. I pledge to myself that I will call at least 3 reception halls today! Watching 'The Other Half' right now, and these guys are so cheesey. But I did get teary eyed when they brought out this pregnant woman, whose husband was sent away because he's in the military. It's their first baby, and chances are he'll still be gone when the baby is born. So the guys had elected themselves to be the 'surrogate dads' while he's away, going to lamaze classes, watching the ultra sounds, etc. They had called the husband today, and they (and the wife) were talking to him. Danny asked the stupidest question, which was 'So, do you feel bad that you can't be here for the birth of your first baby?' Um, DUH!!! So the husband answers, 'Yeah, more than anything else I want to be with her right now, to experience this whole thing, but there are also so many things going on in her life that I want to share with her, that I can't, like flat-tires, stopped up toilets, birthdays, I just miss her so much.' Awww, and of course, she started crying. OK....gonna clean up the room. More later. - Yano, 10:54 AM |

Thursday, October 17 Thursday, October 17

No decorations will be put up today. It's been raining, and it's really cold outside. Can't risk getting more sick than I am. Anyway, here's that pic that I was talking about earlier today. The scan isn't too great, but it'll have to do. I'm one of 'The Nebula Riders' - sexy, scantily clad women that ride around saving the universe. Yup. That's me! - Yano, 9:20 PM |

Foul mood alert!!! Well, today, it seemed that a good friend at work may have been let go. I really don't want to go into the reasons or anything like that, but we're all in a little bit of shock. My feelings swayed from anger, to disappointment, to sadness, to hopelessness, to anger again. That, and I'm still sick! Grr...Our happy little family here had been broken up. But then, later on, we found that he was given a second chance. Whew!!! Can't stand to have our little Scooby gang break up. We've got a good thing going! But it really stressed me out. It makes my belly hurt. - Yano, 4:57 PM |

My First Comic Book Appearance My First Comic Book Appearance My First Comic Book Appearance I was talking to my friend, Luke Lizalde, who draws the comic book 'Mac Afro' and for his last issue he gave me a cameo. Of course, I don't think it looks like me at all, but it's the thought that counts. I've got the scan of it at home, so I'll post it up here tonight. My character even has a speaking part. Whoo hoo! Good luck to Luke, who's gonna be brushing up on his art skills and hitting up Marvel for a job. Come on, who wouldn't hire a guy who can draw like this? It's freezing here today, the high is supposed to be the mid-forties. I've been wanting to put up my Halloween decorations around the house for a while now, but it's been too cold. But tonight will be the night! I've got to get them up soon, because it'll just get colder. - Yano, 9:08 AM |

Wednesday, October 16 Wednesday, October 16

Power Rangers, Car Bombs and Single Men - Lookin' for Love Power Rangers, Car Bombs and Single Men - Lookin' for Love Power Rangers, Car Bombs and Single Men - Lookin' for Love Geez!!! It took me an hour to drive to work today. It was only drizzling, but everyone was driving SO slow. It always happens that when you leave the house late, you're going to get to work even later! And it's freezing outside. It's only supposed to get to 46 degrees today. And I swear, in my office, it's even colder. It must be 40 degrees in here. I'm starting to lose feeling in my fingers. I think I may put my jacket back on. Yesterday night was a good time. I went to meet up with the guys at John Barleycorn to celebrate Gel's birthday. By the time I got there he had drunk a bottle of wine and had a shot of goldschlager and tequila in front of him. He had many more drinks after that, including the car bomb that I bought him. There was a lot of great, funny conversation. For a while, I was the only girl there, so I got to listen to a lot of the guy talk. They were discussing that the amount of happy people in relationships versus happy single people that they knew was 28 to 1. The found one more happy male, which upped it to 28 to 2. (Happy single says: 'I've been hearing that sex is over-rated anyway!' Unhappy single replies: 'Yeah, they say that because they can't get any sex!') The rest of them are tired of being single. Poor single guys, with a shortage of young single women. If you're single, female, and looking for love, I've got a panel of good looking young men for you to choose from. E-mail me an application. *wink* We also discussed favorite old TV shows (the Wonder Years vs. Boy Meets World debate) and cartoons ('Why couldn't Lion-O's sword be long all the time? The rest of the time it was so puny, you can't fight with that thing!'), and there were some confessions made (like how many of them actually went to the theaters to see the Power Rangers movie, just to check out the Pink Ranger). There was also a lot of geeky comic book talk that I loved. All in all, it was a nice night, it's good to hang out with old friend. I can never get enough of reminiscing about the old days of college with them. We still laugh out loud at the same old stories. I love those guys! I've also created another blog to talk about all my wedding stuff. Check it out at My Big Fat Filipino Wedding. Lots of people have suggestions and questions, and there are a lot of ideas that run through my head during the course of the day. I just want to keep everything together, and I think that the planning of this wedding will make one entertaining read. It will also give me a place to rant when the pressure starts building up! - Yano, 9:33 AM |

Monday, October 14 Monday, October 14

Winning has a Price Winning has a Price Winning has a Price Well, Saturday I went to a family party, and we sat around and watched football and rented movies. Trully is the easiest person to go to Blockbuster with, because every movie you suggest to rent she says 'YES!'. I guess you don't get to watch a lot of movies out in Brazil. SO we rent 6 movies, because she has a lot to catch up on. We get back, throw in 'The Scorpion King', which was her first choice to watch, and she falls asleep halfway. Later that night me and Dave met up with some co-workers to watch the Chicago Wolves home opener. We played against Cincinatti Mighty Ducks and spanked their mighty little asses 8-4. Hockey games are fun to watch. Especially when they fight! But Saturday I was about 2 feet from getting hit by a flying puck. Someone tried a slapshot on the goal and it ricocheted off the gaolies mitt and flew into the crowd. It was the freakiest thing seeing it fly towards me. I had a slow reaction and ducked afterwards. Looking back, it seemed like it was in slow motion. It eventually hit a guy on the chest, but what a trooper, he had the presence of mind to catch it. After the game, we partied at Boogie Nights. In a way, I prefer dorky places like Boogie Nights, where you don't have to care how you're dressed, or how your dancing to the 'be seen' places that I've gone to before. It's a lot more fun when you don't have to worry about how you look. Dave didn't think that he would be he had a really good time, too. There's so much humor to be found when watching the crowd in places like that! Yesterday we played Whirlyball against some clients. We didn't have a good turnout of people from the company, but we beat our client nonetheless. I scored a couple games, which I'm happy about, and I had some pretty good assists and passes. However, I got hit pretty badly a couple times, so I'm really sore. There was one time when I got hit at full speed with my back turned (a total cheap shot), so I didn't even have a chance to prepare myself and I think I may have done something to my neck. But that's ok, because he was a sucky player and he had no game. That, and I got a couple of good shots on him later on, as did Bryan. If you're ever in Chicago, I'll take y'all out to play. It's a good time. - Yano, 6:50 PM |