the end is near

30-11-2008 by rialeilani

Damn it.  Having 4 days off is fucking glorious.  It seems to go on forever and then all of a sudden you sit down and you think ’shit, i have to go to work tomorrow’.  This fucking sucks.

*sigh

Anyhow, we went snowboarding again today.  It is expensive but you know what you only live once and it’s only pleasant snowboarding weather for a short period of time.  Soon it will be freezing with a windchill in the teens or below.  So I’m justifying spending the money.

I was sad today, my little friends weren’t there making their ramps so no jumps for me.  It was so cute on Friday, I came down the hill and stopped to watch C make the jump and then I chickened out.   The young boys were sitting next to it fixing it and they were asking me if I was going to go.  I get nervous when people watch me so I skipped it.  They were like ‘oh you should have did it your good.  it’s easy!’.  It made me feel good.  I know they were like 10 but I’ll take all the confidence I can gather ;)   (I did hit the jump my next time down)

I worked on carving again today.  I’m getting better too!  All of a sudden it started snowing like mad crazy.  So we didn’t stay as long as we would have liked because we had driven the Lincoln.  (oh the Lincoln, if I was completely anonymous I’d tell you why we have the Lincoln)  It’s rear wheel drive and v8.  I gripped the door handle the whole hour it took us to get home.  Trying not to think of spinning out and hitting anything in the way.

Is everyone ready to go back to the daily grind tomorrow?

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And because I’m coming out of my holiday funk, I’m thankful for:

  • my family
  • my friends
  • my dogs
  • sunshine
  • leaves changing color
  • my job
  • having money to do things i enjoy
  • being independent
  • freedom
  • my health
  • my imagination
  • the past
  • the present
  • the future

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I ordered my first Christmas present!  You don’t know what a huge step this is.  Maybe I’ll write about it later but my first present is for my dad and I ordered it from HSN.  LOL.  I was flipping channels when I stopped on HSN, they had this knive set and I was thinking ‘hey that’s kind of cool’ pause, ‘hey i should get that for my dad’.  So  I called C in there and he was like you should order us one too.  Hehe so I did.  I felt like a little old lady shopping from my bed (it was 11pm and I was reading and flipping stations lol)

exhausted and satisfied

28-11-2008 by rialeilani
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broke in our new toys

I forgot how much I love snowboarding.  We went to Alpine Valley today and spent 5 hours on the slopes.  For the most part snowboarding is like riding a bike.  I still have a teensy weensy problem with my front edge but I jumped a snow ramp not once but 3 times.  I fell all 3 times but damn it I did it and it felt awesome.

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me carving the slope ;)

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c tries with the camera when he has it but it's a little blurry lol

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C

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upclose i like this shot :)

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one of the jumps, c didn't get my picture :(

So I’m a little sore already but it’s that good feeling.  One I haven’t felt from snowboarding in 2 years.  It was awesome to get back out there.  Hope you had a happy friday!

brutally honest personality test

by rialeilani

I’ve been tested before and it always comes out the same: INFJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging)

What are you?

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Your result for The Brutally Honest Personality Test…

Freak- INFJ

13% Extraversion, 53% Intuition, 40% Thinking, 67% Judging

Well, well, well. How did someone like you end up with the least common personality type of them all? In a group of 100 Americans, only 0.5 others would be just like you. You really are one of a kind… In fact, I do believe that that’s one of the definitions for the word “FREAK.”

Freak’s not such a bad word to describe you actually.

You are deep, complex, secretive and extremely difficult to understand. If that doesn’t scream “Freak!” I don’t know what does. No-one actually knows the REAL you, do they?

You probably have deep interests in creative expression as well as issues of spirituality and human development.

You’ve probably even been called a “psychic” before, because of your uncanny knack to understand and “read” people without quite knowing how you do it. Don’t fret. You’re not actually psychic. That would make you special and you’ll never accomplish that.

You’re also quite possible the most emotional of them all, so don’t take this all too hard. Nevertheless you most definitely have the strangest personality type and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows…

PushoverIntroverted Sensing Feeling Judging

CriminalIntroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

BorefestIntroverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Almost PerfectIntroverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

FreakIntroverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

LoserIntroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

CrackpotIntroverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

ClownExtraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

SapExtraverted Sensing Feeling Judging

CommanderExtraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Do GooderExtraverted Sensing Thinking Judging

ScumbagExtraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

BusybodyExtraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

PrickExtraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

DictatorExtraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging


Take The Brutally Honest Personality Test
at HelloQuizzy

the ultimate true irish test

26-11-2008 by rialeilani

For those of you who laughed when I say I am part Irish, I took this just for you.  I didn’t do half bad ;)

IC I expect you to take this too :)   No cheating hehe

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Your result for The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test…

A Brave Fenian

You scored 82 Common Sense, 59 Irish Facts, and 72 Irish Soul!

You know your stuff. You are Irish in your heart. You probably talk like an Irish person after a few pints. You sing the rebel songs. You drink, and probably bleed Guinness. You may have even been interned in British Prisions. If you are a female, I am in love. If you are a male, we are brothers. We should have a pint.

Please don’t forget to rate my test…


Take The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test
at HelloQuizzy

let’s say thanks

25-11-2008 by rialeilani

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(from an email I received)

If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.
This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you’s.
Thanks for taking to time to support our military!

get your scarf on

by rialeilani

This seems like fun and I love me some scarves (that is one funny looking word!).

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What are you waiting for?  Go check it out :)

everything you didn’t want to know about me

24-11-2008 by rialeilani

I’ve seen this on a lot of blogs lately, but I saw it first on Nilsa’s.  I’m obviously not busy enough at work…shhh…

I’m sure you are dying to know more about me so here ya go!

LAYER ONE:

  • Name: Ria ;)
  • Birthdate: June 14, 1982
  • Birthplace: Dearborn, MI
  • Current location: Still Michigan
  • Eye color: Brown
  • Hair color: dark, dark Brown
  • Height: 5′3
  • Righty or lefty: righty
  • Zodiac sign: Gemini

LAYER TWO:

  • Your heritage: Filipino, Irish (i know some of you are laughing…jerks!)
  • The shoes you wore today: converse
  • Your weakness: candy, animals
  • Your fears: Losing loved ones
  • Your perfect pizza: hawaiian ;)
  • Goal you’d like to achieve: finish writing the book

LAYER THREE:

  • Your most overused phrase on AIM: LOL
  • Your first waking thoughts: ummm 10 more minutes
  • Your best physical feature: uh…my eyes
  • Your most missed memory: summer 2000

LAYER FOUR:

  • Pepsi or Coke: coke
  • McDonald’s or Burger King: only when i’m hungover, Burger King
  • Single or group dates: either
  • Adidas or Nike: don’t care i’m actually kind of loving my converse
  • Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither
  • Chocolate or vanilla: chocolate!
  • Cappuccino or coffee: either

LAYER FIVE:

  • Smoke: when i’m stressed (sometimes this lasts months at a time)
  • Cuss: all the fucking time dumbass
  • Sing: in the car (not very well)
  • Take a shower everyday: yep
  • Do you think you’ve been in love:  twice I’m a lucky girl ;)
  • Want to go to college: been there done that, not going back
  • Liked high school: not so much
  • Want to get married: i did
  • Believe in yourself: i try to on a daily basis
  • Get motion sickness: yep
  • Think you’re attractive: most days
  • Think you’re a health freak: sometimes i’m annoying
  • Get along with your parent(s): yep i miss my mama though
  • Like thunderstorms: if i get to sleep
  • Play an instrument: HA not so much

LAYER SIX: In the past month…

  • Drank alcohol: i had some bailey’s last night
  • Smoked: yep
  • Done a drug: illegal…um…nope
  • Made out: not so much (that’s so sad)
  • Gone on a date: hmmm i don’t think so
  • Gone to the mall: yep i don’t think i bought anything though
  • Eaten an entire box of Oreos: nope
  • Eaten sushi: probably i LOVE sushi
  • Been on stage: nope
  • Been dumped: no again
  • Gone skating: rollerblading
  • Made homemade cookies: no
  • Gone skinny dipping: no
  • Dyed your hair: nope never
  • Stolen Anything: hehe no

LAYER SEVEN: Ever…

  • Played a game that required removal of clothing: probably once or twice ;)
  • Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: LOL yes
  • Been caught “doing something”: i plead the fifth
  • Been called a tease: all the time
  • Gotten beaten up: i’ve gotten in some fights mostly with L Pizza
  • Shoplifted: nope i was a good girl geez
  • Changed who you were to fit in: not really

LAYER EIGHT:

  • Age you hope to be married: I was 24
  • Numbers and names of children: None
  • Describe your dream wedding: beach!
  • How do you want to die: um morbid moving on
  • Where you want to go to college: I went to WSU
  • What do you want to be when you grow up: I still have no idea
  • What country would you most like to visit: There are too many to pick 1!

LAYER NINE:

  • Number of drugs taken illegally: just “mother earth”…again, i’m a good girl kthx
  • Number of people I could trust with my life: a handful
  • Number of CDs that I own: i have no idea
  • Number of piercings: three
  • Number of tattoos: two
  • Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: hmmm does that include my college paper cuz i wrote some articles (i’m sure you can’t tell by my grammer here)
  • Number of scars on my body: a couple
  • Number of things in my past that I regret: no time for regrets!

all i want for christmas…besides my two front teeth

by rialeilani
  • socks! I love patterned socks.  (even though I wipe my dirty fingers on them sometimes ;) shhh)

For instance:

from forever21
from forever21
forever21
forever21
from target
from target
from target
from target

I think you get the point lol

  • Snowpants for me
  • from REI

    from REI

    from REI

    from REI

    • A handmade journal
    • etsy-TeoStudio

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      mindseye handmade journal. i saw these at the art fair in Florida.  They are pretty awesome

      mindseye handmade journal. i saw these at the art fair in Florida. they are pretty awesome

      etsy-madebykeli

      etsy-madebykeli

  • Two of these for Nani and Scooby
  • from amazon

    from amazon

    • Boots for the dogs so when we go up north we can play outside
    from amazon

    from amazon

    • Nikon Coolpix Camera
      (this isn’t a necessity but I think it’s pretty sweet and as long as I’m dreaming)
    • 2gb flash drive
    from buy.com

    from buy.com

    i guess it really is that bad

    by rialeilani

    Someone stole my gloves out of my car last night!

    I know what you are thinking “are you sure you just didn’t misplace them?”

    No I did not.   I know this because:

    1. I’m not anal rententive about many things but I am about my hat and gloves.  I keep them on the center thing in my car so I have them for my walk into my building in the morning.  I always look at them and say “why don’t I bring them in so they aren’t cold in the morning” but then I think “well I don’t put them on until I get to work and by then my car is toasty”.

    2. My hat was laying (lying?) in the backseat

    3. My sunglasses (usually in my cupholder) were on the drivers seat.

    4. The stuff in my center compartment was thrown on the passenger’s seat.

    5. The little compartment where I keep cds was open.

    So yes someone was in my car and they stole my gloves.  Seriously?!  C is always telling me to lock my doors but I didn’t think about it when I got home from the grocery store yesterday because it was still light out.  We wouldn’t have this problem if I could just pull my car in the garage (that is a different post, a more angry one).

    I’m upset those were my favorite gloves they were gray wool with fleece inside.  Granted they were over a year old and dirty but STILL.  If you are reading this and you STOLE my gloves please give them back. kthx.

    ah sunday how i love and hate you

    23-11-2008 by rialeilani

    Today was exhausting.

    My dad picked me up for the memorial luncheon for my uncle at 11:30 and I didn’t get home until 4:30 and then I had to go to Walmart.  I’m annoyed about the situation for Thanksgiving, but anyhow, I had to pick up stuff for that.

    So is it wrong that after I put the groceries away, went for a quick jog and fed the dogs, I’m sitting back at my laptop typing this and sipping on some Bailey’s over ice?

    Yeah I didn’t think so either.

    How was your weekend?

    welcome!

    "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
    ~ Anais Nin



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