Hello Tiffy!

I came down with a nasty cold earlier this week and I stayed home from work yesterday. I feel a lot better today though. I am getting dizzy spells here and there but hey it is better than feeling like I am in hell! Blah. So I am headed to the Rogue Brewery tonight and then tomorrow will be a long day!

I need to hit Target to grab some Chunky soups for $1.25 a can. That is a serious good deal. Next I have to go to Payless and hit up BOGO because I found two uber cute pairs of shoes there last time and now I can get one pair half off! Next I need a starbucks for a final frappucino. 

Starting Monday A & I are starting Weight Watchers again. Well not exactly "again". This time counts as the first try. Every time I have done WW I have done it all by myself. This time I am doing it with a friend and she also has Biggest Loser exercise DVDs so we will be doing those every night together. I am going to make it work this time… at least I will have more support. It is really hard to do it by yourself. In the mean time I am going to enjoy myself this weekend! Cold and all.

I have been so stressed this past week! I am so sick of saying that. Above all that, I now seem to be showing symptoms of strep throat. Well, I am probably wrong, I tend to misdiagnose myself like a hypochondriac. I feel like I have a fever and a sore throat today. Those are the symptoms of strep. That would just be lovely. I already have gotten myself 3 grand worth of medical bills and lets not forget the other grand in taxes I am going to owe. Lucky lucky me. I know, I am a total bitch today! Thankfully, though, it was not such a bad day at work.

I am still anxiously awaiting my test results from my leep. Oh guess what, I think I am very clever as I realized it is a Leap Year. And I had a leep this year. Therefore, it is my LEEP YEAR!

I need to go make a hot toddy or somethin for this throat of mine…. Here I am acting like a fool in public again.

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I have not had any time to write because I have been working upwards of 12 hours a day this week. It has been hell but I am surviving. I got a few higher profile clients that took more time.

I am going to get my eyebrows done this morning , do some work, get my laundry done and then go to a friend’s housewarming party. Should be fun.

I had a LEEP yesterday. It was pretty horrible. During the procedure, I may have said it was the worst thing I have ever done. It was certainly the most painful, in more ways than one. However, it was something that had to be done. The condition could have turned into cancer if I didn’t have it done. I read a lot of horror stories about it but I also know a few people that had it done. The people I knew were fine, and told me everything was going to be ok. On the internets, the women who had this done described things that would make anyone hide in a box! Well for me, I would describe it as pure torture, but only torture for 5-6 minutes. I kept telling myself that if I think this is that bad I may never be able to tolerate child birth, which was supposed to help, but then I remembered if I didn’t get this procedure done I may not live to have children. Heh. Life really sneaks up on you sometimes.

You know the thing that makes me the maddest about this whole thing is I do not remember being educated about HPV, well, ever. When I was told I was positive for it I reacted as if I had HIV which is a completely different kind of STD that can kill you while HPV is rapidly becoming as common as tattoos these days. That itself is also scary! I must say that while I am going to live through this I have completely changed my attitude towards the vaccine. When California first passed the bill that would require girls to get the vaccine I thought that it was really fucked up. About 2 months later I had an abnormal pap and was told that I was positive for it. After this whole process, I am very much FOR the vaccine! It will happen to anyone, and full-out sex isn’t even required to get it. Just being close to having sex can get you an STD that *can* give you cancer and die within 20 years or so. I was in denial at first, and waited way too long to do the research before I scheduled my appointment with the women’s clinic. Once I found out I needed the LEEP I was flipping out. It all really does seem unfair. Hell, ok I will say it: IT IS UNFAIR! However unfortunate things happen to good people all the time so what can you do? The only thing I could do was do what I was told.

So I have to say I am extremely thankful that it was a short procedure. I get to wait now, while they do tests, and in 2 weeks I will get a check up. About 2 months later, they will give me a new pap, and I cross my fingers and toes that it comes back normal. I can not tell you how much I am anticipating that first normal pap. The worst case scenario is that I get another abnormal pap…..and I get another LEEP. While it was extremely painful and no one would want to do it twice, there are other reasons for not wanting another one. Every time I get one it will make the wall of my womb thinner and thinner. To put it bluntly, this can also prevent you from having kids. That is the hardest part, to be honest with you. I am 26! Another girl I know that has had this is 23… How screwed up is this?! However, to put your mind at ease, it is very very rare to need more than one LEEP. So please cross your fingers and toes for me! I am alive! Crampy, but alive <br><br>

I had the best shopping trip with my coupons!!

Check this out: 21 Dollars of groceries for 4.89!

Generic 94% Fat Free Buttered popcorn - $1.00 (Safeway sale price. I initially was going to use an orville redenbacher coupon to get 2 boxes for 2.50, but this was an even better deal, 1.00 a box, I just stuck with one.

Soup At Hand soup - $0.29 (After $2.00 coupon)

Temptations Cat Treats (2) - $2.00 (Sale Price = $1.50 each, - $1.00 off of 2 packages)

Propel Energy Water - $0.45 (Sale Price = $1.00 - $0.55 coupon)

Colgate Toothpaste (2) - $1.00 (Sale Price = $1.00 each, -1.00 coupon off of 2 packages)

Cesar Dog Food = $0.00 (Free Coupon - Value of $1.19)

Flat Earth Veggie Chips = NEGATIVE $0.50 (FREE with coupon, Value up to $2.99. Sale Price = $2.49. Coupon credited me the full $2.99 so I got free 50 cents toward my groceries!)

OK, I have HAD IT with my apartment. I was just watching this Oprah episode, about de-cluttering your space, and I am officially inspired. I blamed my clutter for a long time on my finances and… well… the blame stands true in some respects. I have NO WHERE TO PUT ANYTHING! That has not changed. However, most of my stuff that hangs out is because I refuse to throw anything away. I am not a pack-rat, but I am close. I keep memory items that mean absolutely nothing - and I will never need them again! I refuse to throw anything I decide is valuable away. My idea of cleaning the living room is going through the room with two safeway bags - one for garbage and one for items I want to keep but have no place for. Can you guess how many bags I have in my bedroom closet of stuff I "Don’t have a place for?" Like 10! I made my closet the place that my stuff I have no place for the place for it. Only, its in safeway bags, spilling over and not even pretending to be organized.

I wake up in the morning and see mountains of clothes and crap, everywhere. I really don’t want to buy dressers and organizational furniture I do not want to commit to. I have more of a problem "throwing away money" on furniture I plan to throw away than fix the problem and get temporary furniture. I think the first step to my plan will be to go up to the storage room we pay for every month and throw away all of the items that I can do away with. The second thing will be to go through my mother’s old belongings. Almost all of her belongings are so hard to throw away. How can you throw away something that your mother owned. She is no longer here. What can you do? I can not think of one thing that she has owned that I be able to throw away. That will suck. Once there is some more room in storage, I an work on the bedroom and put some things for donation that I can get a write off for. Why not - I need the space, and I need to de-clutter my life in general! I seriously can not stand it how it is now - and holding on to this useless crap is making my life hell.

When you wake up hating your living space, how can you enjoy your life. You can’t, I have been inspired to think. I hope this encouraging thought lasts me through me waking up again tomorrow…. cause it is almost 3 AM and I am so tired. Thank you Oprah you are still the queen of daytime (at 3 AM on Tivo).

Even though the title says it all, my weekend was really a blast! My best friend Val came to visit on Friday night and we dined at Macaroni Grill and then went to a bar party that my friend N & N were throwing. It was at a cool lounge called Mandala in San Mateo. Its a little swanky and they play music and have expensive drinks, you know, one of those places.

We had a great time and boy did we drink! Nothin’ wrong with that of course I had…hmm…a Black Cherry Lemon martini, an apple martini, a shot of jager, a fruity champagne thing, and 2 beers! Even though its a lot of drinks we were there for 5 hours so I was pacing alright. I forget exactly everything that Val had, but the drink of the evening was some kind of drink with Absinthe in it… and that fucked her up It was good times. After all of that excitement, we woke up and went to IHOP for some breakfast. Well, it was more like lunch as it was 1 PM or something when we finally got around to going there.

It was so fun seeing her, we always talk about how if we lived near eachother we would never leave eachothers side and it is probably true. However it is fun to have those girls nights every few months to chill out.

On Saturday night I went to Target to putz around and ended up with hooks to hang up some pictures I have been procrastinating about. Well the ones that I picked were adhesive to the wall and way too weak to holdup the picture. About 5 minutes after I hung them up…..CRASH!…. hehe oops. It didn’t break thank god