thin as sin

if you follow fashion news at all you should have heard about madrid's ban on models wit bmi of less than 18. while i definitely agree that there should be a ban on too skinny models, i think 18 is too high. i got measured in high school and was pegged at below 18 (i forget the actual number, either 14.3, 16.3, or 17.3). however, i've never had an eating disorder; i'm just naturally thin. i remember losing my period a few times cause i didn't have enough body fat, and that's really not good. but again, i never forced myself to not eat, and i never made myself throw up, or excersize too much. i've always eaten wat i wanted, never caring about calories intake. of course, i'm just me, and i don't influence anyone like these models (or celebrities) do. so yeah, i think we should do something. 'healthy' is considered to be 18.5 to 25, but seriously, some people are just naturally skinny. i think anything significantly under 18.5 is bad. banning models wit bmis under 16 perhaps?

thin as sin

if you follow fashion news at all you should have heard about madrid's ban on models wit bmi of less than 18. while i definitely agree that there should be a ban on too skinny models, i think 18 is too high. i got measured in high school and was pegged at below 18 (i forget the actual number, either 14.3, 16.3, or 17.3). however, i've never had an eating disorder; i'm just naturally thin. i remember losing my period a few times cause i didn't have enough body fat, and that's really not good. but again, i never forced myself to not eat, and i never made myself throw up, or excersize too much. i've always eaten wat i wanted, never caring about calories intake. of course, i'm just me, and i don't influence anyone like these models (or celebrities) do. so yeah, i think we should do something. 'healthy' is considered to be 18.5 to 25, but seriously, some people are just naturally skinny. i think anything significantly under 18.5 is bad. banning models wit bmis under 16 perhaps?

vajayjays

way interesting article on wat it's like to have two vaginas. that's right, two vaginas.

(scroll down on right side to read article)

to a halt

this celebrity sex tape thing has gone too far. latest to jump on the bandwagon is dustin diamond, whom you may better kno as screech from 'saved by the bell'.

haircut

i feel like getting another haircut. i get haircuts about once a year so each time it's a pretty big deal to me. anyway, so i want something a little more... interesting. i feel like... i'm still young so now is the time to take chances, you kno wat i mean? but i did come across patricia schmid and really like her hair. :) it is a bit conservative tho. and my hair is pretty flat on it's own, and i have no intention of ever really styling it. so... wat do you think?

rose rings

i love me these rings (esp the black one) from urban outfitters. but damnit wit my tiny fingers how much you wanna bet i'll never find one in my size? :(

edit: i actually went and checked out the rings. i only saw the metal one. but it's huge. not just finger hole part. but the flower. it's huge!

futurama

who could've predicted this?! certainly not anyone on your psychic friends network. but, miss cleo is gay! :)

photo bags

if you're into photobags (i'm not) then i'm sure you'll be interested in these custom made bags. you pick the bag style (one of twelve) and upload your own picture. totally personalized.

killer last words

+-------- Bizarre Words of Criminals At Execution ---------+  

"Well, the Lord is going to get another one." (Electric chair, Georgia) - John Eldon Smith, d. December 15, 1983  

"Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around." (Hanging, Kansas.) - Carl Panzram, d. September 5, 1930  

"Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!" (Firing squad) - Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant, Australian poet & national hero, d. 1902  

"I don't hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened." (Electric chair, Indiana.) - Steven Judy, d. March 9, 1981  

"Lock and load. Let's do it." (Injection, Texas.) - G. W. Green, d. November 12, 1991  

"I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass." (Injection, Texas.) - Johnny Frank Garrett, Sr., d. February 11, 1992  

"How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries." (Electric chair, Oklahoma.) - James French, d. 1966  

"I love you." (Spoken to the executioner) (Injection, NY) - Sean Flannagan, d. June 23, 1989  

"You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!" (Guillotined) - Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, d. 1793  

"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel." (Electric chair in NY) - George Appel, d. 1928 

kiddies

i've moved back to irvine. haven't found an appt yet, so i'm living wit lanny and her husband, ryan, and their two kids. it's really quite nice. i have my own room and a tv! anyway. tonight was wells' bday. he's the older son. he turned four! the younger boy (lol, i dunno his name. i call his didi, chinese for 'younger brother') is only two some. here are some pictures of the bday boy and his cake. :) btw, kids. they really are so weird... lanny bought them a new kids' toothpaste which has a cartoon of a bear and a duck dancing thru the forest. wells asks why the bear isn't wearing any shoes? lanny replied that well, duh, he's walking on grass, so of course he doesn't need shoes. wells doesn't wear shoes when walking on grass does he? lol. if i was to reply i would've been like 'because they have thicker soles of their feet, so the ground doesn't hurt them'. which really, is not a very good answer. but eh watever.

bad tasting

this is a totally cute shirt, but why did they have to make the graphic so damn big? and since wat's in right now is super long tees wouldn't the word 'eat' be right at the crotch area? and if so, was that done purposely or was it a really bad mistake?

ah choo!

here is the cutest thing possibly ever. a baby panda sneezing!

ideas...

"MESA, Az. - When Heather Michelle Kane saw a photo of another woman on her boyfriend's MySpace.com web page, she was ready to kill. And I'm not kidding. Kane, 22, almost hired someone to kill the woman, but was arrested when the man she tried to hire was actually an undercover police detective. Kane met the undercover cop at a grocery store, where she gave him $400 and offered to fork over an extra $100 once the woman was killed. She gave the officer photographs of the woman from her boyfriend's MySpace page, and also asked for a picture of the woman's dead body. She was arrested and booked for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder."

get it right!

imma take a mintute right here to yell at daniel. grey's is so not a ripoff of scrubs! if anything, it's a ripoff of e.r.! you may love your scrubs but that does not mean that every tv show situated in a hospital is a ripoff of your precious show. grr! (btw, i'm not actually mad at you)

and in a related topic, i was disappointed wit last night's season premier. i felt like they tried to fit too much in. =\

calling names

+-------------- Bizarre Names of Real Places ---------------+  

Frozen Run, West Virginia: A man saved his own life by wrapping himself in the skin of a recently killed buffalo. His friends had to thaw it to get him out.  

Preacher's Head, New Mexico: A rock resembling the face of a serious-looking man overlooks the town.  

Dildo, Newfoundland: Coincidentally, it's the birthplace of Shannon Tweed, Playboy magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year.  

Anxiety Point, Alaska: Sir John Franklin, a British explorer, was afraid that bad weather would prevent his team from reaching a point on the Alaskan coast. They made it, and left this permanent reminder of his nervousness.  

Nipple Mountain, Colorado: One formation on the mountain is named "Clara's Bird's Nipple."  

Chilly Buttes, Idaho: A cold place in the winter.  

Art Texas: As one resident explained, "Well, it's not for Arthur or Artesian, and far as I know people here weren't ever especially arty. We've heard they picked it just because they wanted a real short name."  

Sacul, Texas: A reverse spelling of (John) Lucas, an early settler in the area.  

Lake Italy, California: The lake is shaped like a boot.  

Accident, Maryland: In 1774, surveyors marked off a parcel of land by mistake. They decided to immortalize the error.  

[From Uncle John's 4-Ply Bathroom Reader] 

mirror mirror

 this mirror from anthopoligie is sooo pretty. totally reminds me of snow white and sleeping beauty. living in a forest. but argh, if only it wasn't $148!

happy 6th!

somewat unbelievably reep and i celebrated our sixth year anniversary last night. can you believe it? six years. six whole years. not totally complete but six years none the less. wow. and how we spent it last night? also, very wow.

he actually got my present a little early. but i didn't know until nearly a full day later and by then he wasn't talking to me anymore (this was last week). it was season two of grey's anatomy. and i got him a guitar pedal and a guitar book. i actually bought him two pedals and let him decide which he liked better. a few years ago (lol) we went shopping and he decided on a couple. so ting and i went to buy him that one. but the cashier recommended another. it was a bit more than i was planning to spend but i figured wat the hell, he wanted it and we don't usually do expensive presents. so.. he ended up picking that one :) i'm glad. but since it was a bit more than i can easily afford we decided he would pay for dinner.

so we decided to go to morton's in santa ana for dinner, cause i love steak and he was curious about the restaurant, having driven by a few times. if you read their website they say the average dinner for two is around $180! anyway, so that night i'm already sitting at the foot of my stairs waiting cause he's a bit late (we played dress up). i hear a car pull up, but he hasn't called yet. i decide to go anyway, and as i get to the door he does call. i get out and hear him close the car door; i'm thinking he's moving things around. i round the corner, around the shrub, and he's there wit a dozen roses. :) (we later figured that he hadn't given me roses since i was in hs!) anyway, we speed on over and have a great time. the bread, french onion soup and dessert were fabulous. the steaks were pretty good. i've had better (and i don't mean that in a condescending way, but just for your future reference..). the rest of the night was great too. no narration tho; nothing really happened. we just had a great time talking and laughing is all.

some funny things did happen tho. reepal wouldn't stop giving me presents! first the roses, then a music cd, then season 1 prison break dvds, then an mp3 cd, then an mp3 dvd, and then a skor bar! and this was all at separate moments during the night! he's so cute, this one. :) i actually gave him something too tho. altho not nearly as cool or well thought out. so reep's a bit tight on money, and we had picked morton's before knowing the average price of dinner. so that afternoon i went to the atm and got $60, thinking that it wouldn't cover half the meal, but nearly half. see, i knew that he wouldn't let me pay for more than half or even half of dinner, but i could get him to take money if it was less than half. so later when we were at our beach i made him close his eyes and hold out his hands. i made him promise me that he could accept watever i gave him. he promised. and i dropped the money in. as soon as i did he was 'i'm not taking this!' lol, but he had promised! hehe. problem was, he owed me some money ($70 or $80, i don't remember) from when i ebayed a video card for him. so right then he tells me he's gonna pay me back and he gives me the same $60 i just gave him! i was like, 'no way! if you're gonna pay me back you cannot use the money i just gave you!' he then whips out his wallet and actually takes out $80! i was thinking he wouldn't have that much cash, but appt he was planning on paying for dinner using cash, but he ended up using his card. argh! so we're both sitting there feeling mighty unhappy wit the situation. me feeling like i didn't pay him for dinner, and him feeling like he didn't pay me back for the vc. =\ but, lol, we got over it. oh, and later. at the end of the night. he walked me to my door. :) who says and old dog can't learn new tricks? not me. definitely not me. :)

btw, i youtubed the grey's anatomy season premier song "the fray - how to save a life" cause i don't have the mp3. and now i can't stop listening to it. i can't wait for romrow night!

tyra

tyra banks; you just gotta love her!

h&m

surely you must already kno about this. but just as a reminder. for those of us so cal? we can now rejoice! h&m has come! romrow one will open its doors in lucky ducky pasadena. and sometime later this fall, another will open at the beverly center. yahoo! and as an added bonus, the first 100 customers at either grand opening will recive a free gift card wit a pre-loaded value of $10 thru $300. pretty damn cool.

ghost!

reepal and i ended up fighting for a while. he wouldn't talk to me for over a day. but then we did talk and now, for the most part anyway, we're over it. (we had another little tiff in between but that was mainly a misunderstanding) but in more important news, we have ghosts! really! well, no. more accurately, we have a ghost! really really. i woke up this morning and looked down at my legs and saw that there are finger marks on my legs. not like bruises, but like blood marks. ...no that came out all wrong. but like, you can very clearly see four fingers of a small right hand (no pinkie) on the calf of my left leg. i woke up nearly two hours ago and it's still there! !! now, i'm pretty damn sure i haven't been grabbed at the last few days and even if i were the marks should've showed up earlier, but instead i just woke up wit them which means that it happened sometime during the night. and i sleep alooone! so wat is the only reasonable conclusion to all this? that's right, we have ghooosts! it's so craaazy! so yeah, appt it lives under my bed and was tyring to pull me under too? it's so scaaary! ...=\

zune

microsoft announces their mp3 player called the zune (eesh i hate that name). it's not bad looking and comes in white, black, and brown. from the pictures i sorta like the brown (!) cause it reminds me of old school radios. wat i like best tho is that it comes wit a fm radio and has wireless capability. so you can trade stuff wit others witout having to actualy hook up. pretty cool. now if only the would change that stupid name...

zune

microsoft announces their mp3 player (called the zune) and also their online music store. zune. i can't help but hate that name. also it reminds me of 'roon' from gilmore girls. er... i forget his name. but the produce guy's cousin or brother or something who went on a date wit loralie? anyway. zune. blergh. but besides just the anem, it is quite pretty. not super great, i would've tweeked the design a little, but i like the big ol' screen. and it has a fm radio. and it's wireless! wow.

gorjana

gorjana jewelry feature some very simple, yet quite decorative, jewelry in gold and silver. (make sure to go to the 'shop' and not 'collections' or you'll have to sign in). my favorite is the 'lucky charm heart' necklace which is surprisingly affordable at $70.

cloudy

some 'weird' things have happened lately between me and a friend of mine. told reep about it, and he seemed okay wit the whole thing. but last night he seemed, rather suddenly, to get angry at me. i'm not exactly sure about wat either. as we were talking over the phone, he very suddenly said 'bye' and since i was so confused i let him go witout asking anything. it kept bothering me tho, so i called him a few times during the night, even left a message, but his phone was (and still is) off. i feel bad about not having resolved this last night. and in fact, the two dreams i do remember having last night, were both bad dreams involving reepal. him doing stuff and me feeling helpless. much as i do now.

a friend of mine fought wit his girlfriend a while ago. and he too wanted to resolve it that night. unfortunately that did not quite work out as planned and while the were okay wit each other, the fight was not fully concluded until the next day. he also did not have a good night's sleep.

sometimes getting mad at people makes you become selfish. you care little about how others are affected. sometimes it is even sillier because you are not really mad at this person in the first place and are just taking it out of them (much is the case wit parents and their children). i hope that the next time i get mad at someone i will remember this and do better.

ipods

apple has been working hard lately; introducing the new ipod nano and the new shuffle. i do not like the shuffle. i mean yeah, it's small, but it's also ugly as hell. altho the 'clip' feature is pretty cool. but eh, i never liked the the shuffle anyway; it has no screen! oh, and is it just me or does the nano look more like the mini now? and not just cause of the colors. bleh, i didn't like the mini either. ...

ipods

apple has been working hard lately. introducing the new ipod nano and the new shuffle. i do not like the shuffle. i mean yeah, it's small, but it's also ugly as hell. ...

porno

while this is not my story, i understand how she feels. i've always felt that if you were wit someone (ie, had a girlfriend) then you probably shouldn't be looking at porn. 1) it is a sign of respect to her. 'i'm wit you now so i'm not going to look at pictures of other naked women.' 2) this does depend on the girl, of course, but you looking at porn might serve to make her feel bad about herself. as in, you don't find her attractive enough so you have to get your jollies elsewhere. 3) this goes hand in hand wit the last one, but really, why would you need to look at other stuff. why would you want to? should she be good enough? and wat are you telling her exactly when you are looking at porn? wat is she supposed to think? 4) and in an overall thing, porn turns women (and men!) into objects and damnit, we are people and should be viewed as such.
reep and i reached a compromise and for a long time i was okay wit it. until several months ago when a friend told me that basically, i was being too nice about things. i suppose it's too late now. damn, i want to get a lot more personal here, but i really shouldn't, it being the internet and all. =\

mother goose

+---------- Bizarre Facts About Nursery Rhymes ------------+  

Humpty Dumpty: According to Katherine Thomas in The Real Personages of Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty is 500 years old and refers to King Richard III of England. In 1483 his reign ended when he fell from his mount during battle; he was slain as he stood shouting "My kingdom for a horse!"  

Humpty Dumpty: King Richard's fall made him Humpty Dumpty. Originally the last line was "Could not set Humpty up again" - which can be interpreted as either putting him back on his horse, or back on the throne. 

Old King Cole: There was actually a King Cole in Britain during the third century. No one knows much about him, but historians agree that he's the subject of the poem.  

Jack be nimble: For centuries, jumping over a candlestick was a method of fortune-telling in England. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes: "A candlestick with a lighted candle was placed on the floor and if, when jumping over it, the light was not extinguished, good luck was supposed to follow during the coming year."  

Ring around the roses: According to James Leasor in The Plague and the Fire, this "had its origins in the London Plague of 1664. Rosy refers to the rosy rash of plague...The posies were herbs and spices carried to ward off the disease; sneezing was a common symptom of those close to death. In the Annotated Mother Goose, the authors note that the third line is often given as a sneezing noise ("At-choo, at-choo") and that "'We all fall down' was, in a way, exactly what happened."

crazy ol' ting!

as i said in my previous post, went to the cerritos sculpture garden last night wit phil, robert and ting to catch up. found out about phil's china trip and rob's rhode island trip. brought along a picnic blanket (ting's super brilliant idea) and got a little silly wit the pictures. check out my flickr for bigger and better pictures. (btw, i chose to post of these pictures namely because of phil's weird expressions. i kno their really small, but try to make out his face in the upper right hand corners)

     

we ended up leaving a bit early because it was so damned cold. so i wrapped myself up in my blanket and starting walking out wit ting. but that girl, you kno how crazy she is, she started running out. so i starting running after her. wit my blanket flapping in wht wind, like a superhero. then i put it over my head like little red riding hood. and we were running and laughing and being weird when these people walk into the garden! imagine their surpise at seeing crazy ol' ting and way normal me! :) that crazy ting. 'why, she's as crazy as her father!' (can anyone identify this quote? first person gets a prize)

btw, looks like i can't link up my flickr to this site because it doesn't support! (now, i would say which doesn't support wat but damn i'm not that great wit computers anyway...)

seeing clearly

was out last night wit phil, robert and ting to catch up. went to the cerritos sculpture garden again, but brought along a picnic blanket this time. afterwards robert dropped me off at home and he actually got out of his car and walked me to the door. can you believe it? wow. normally my girlfriends (i'm pretty sure guy friends too, i can't remember) wait for me to get in the house before they drive away. but not so much wit reep. no, he just drives off. we actually ended up bickering about this today. he says that he looks back as he drives off, to make sure i get to the door. but, like, i have a wall. so i don't understand how he can see me get to the door when i can't even see his car anymore. and i kno for a fact that the last time he dropped me off, he was already down the block before i had even walked past my wall (i was looking at his back lights and they were gone before i was gone, if you kno wat i mean).
it just bothers me cause i feel like he seems to be a bit over protective of me in other situations. but when it comes to me walking to my door or being sick wit a fever, he's just... not there anymore. he says that it's cause he lives in an appt. he says that all his friends (except me) live in appts. and of course, it would be difficult to watch someone to their door if they live inside the complex. but i feel like, just cause you live in an appt, that doesn't mean that you can't be more thoughtful and think about my safety. and btw, not all your friends live in appts. anyway. he was upset and said that fine, he'll watch me to my door. but you kno wat? this isn't the first time i've mentioned this. and truly, if you don't care that much about my safety, then forget it. i kno this is a pretty safe neighborhood, i think i'll just take my chances.
i said this before, and i've posted it as well, but i think i've 'trained' him a little too well.

i bought a dress a while ago but never wore it. didn't really kno how. i like the color and the material but the shape... so i decided to get a little creative the other week. i wore it over a tshirt. i was supposed to go over to reep's and i warned him that he wasn't gonna like wat i was wearing and that i wanted constructive criticism only. and he laughed and said 'we'll see'. and i was serious and i told him so and he just laughed. and it really bothered me. really really. i didn't want to go over anymore. or i wanted to just change and wear something safe so that he wouldn't be mean to me. and i asked him like if that made him happy. that i was so scared that he would be mean to me, over something a silly as a dress. and he said that it made him sad. and that was that. he didn't apologize and i don't even kno if he's changed. and he was nice that day but you kno wat? it's kind of too late. i'm still left wit these feelings. if it makes you sad that your girlfriend feels so scared to be hurt by you that she doesn't want to see you or doesn't want to tell you things, why don't you try to make that better? why don't you try to just not hurt her so much?
(pictures are from when i went to the optometrist wit my mom. i was just trying on glasses. i like the more square ones in the first picture)

rock on!

+---------- Bizarre Origins of Rock Band Names ------------+  

The Bay City Rollers: Came up with their name by sticking a pin in a map of the world. It landed on Bay City, Michigan.  

Buffalo Springfield: Members of the group were stumped for a name. A member of the band was looking out their manager's window at a construction site in Hollywood, when he spotted a steamroller with the brand name "Buffalo Springfield."  

Iron Maiden: A medieval torture device.  

Jethro Tull: Named after the 18th century British inventor of the seed drill.  

Pink Floyd: An amalgam of two American blues artists, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.  

Steely Dan: Based on the name of a dildo in William Burrough's novel, The Naked Lunch.  

Three Dog Night: It is a practice of Australian aborigines to sleep with three dogs on particularly cold nights.  

UB40: Named after the British unemployment benefit form.  

The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed lifted the name from a title of a cheap paperback novel

bunni

the bunni from steve madden. ! i, of course, love wedges, namely because they're easier to walk in. but i really like this new shorter wedge style. like kitten heels (which i never really understood). and the peeptoe is sexy witout trying too hard to be. and trying to hard to be sexy only leads to trashyness. anyway. this shoe. it's so understated. and sooo cute!

only

+-------------------- Bizarre "Onlys" ---------------------+  
  
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.  

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavored ice cream produced.  

Bats have only one baby a year.  

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.  

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.  

Swans are the only birds with penises.  

Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.  

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.  

The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

rachel leigh

rachel leigh has some pretty nice stuff. it's a smallish collection tho. there's only one ring (i loves me rings) but she has quite a few necklaces. my favorite, by far, is the 'over it' necklace.

just a little bit..

reep and i went mini golfing last night. i suck. :) altho at one point reepal told me to 'beat that' and i got a hole in one. haha! but yeah. i suck at mini golf. i usually do better when i don't aim. lol. but i beat him. i beat him good. by like... maybe some 40 points (after around 55 holes). cause the higher the score the better, right? ;)

        

1. reep peering over the arch. 2. fobbing it up at the 'gate of the golden orient'. 3. lol, i just like this shot. 4. stephanie = tired. 5. giant reep climbing on the house. cast your ballots: is he the king from those burger king commercials or is he king kong? i vote for burger king. :)
full set at my flickr. altho no, i haven't linked up the two yet. sorry!

stoopids!

+-------------- Bizarre Deaths in History  ----------------+  

Tycho Brahe was an important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity. In the 16th century, it was considered an insult to leave a banquettable before the meal was over. Brahe, known to drink excessively, had a bladder condition -- but failed to relieve himself before the banquet started. He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too polite to ask to be excused. His bladder finally burst, killing him slowly and painfully over the next 11 days.  

Horace Wells pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s. While experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed chloroform for his problems, claiming that he'd gotten high before the attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He'd anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.  

Francis Bacon was one of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare's plays. One afternoon in 1625, Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. Determined to find out, he purchased a chicken from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the snow, attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The chicken never froze, but Bacon did.  

Jerome Irving Rodale was the founding father of the organic food movement, creator of "Organic Farming and Gardening" magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation. He bragged "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," was only 72 when he appeared on the "Dick Cavett Show" in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.  

Jim Fixx, the author of the best selling "Complete Book of Running," which started the jogging craze of the 1970s, was visiting Greensboro, Vermont when he walked out of the house and began jogging. He'd only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary. His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked... and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death.

bday(s)

it was my mom's bday the other night so we went out to macaroni grill out in huntington beach. normally we don't much celebrate my rent's bdays (i'm the only one that cares much for bdays) but this year was a special one for my mom. back when my parents were born in taiwan, they used to use the lunar calender quite a bit. i'm not totally sure on the details, but i think the lunar calender has 12 months wit an alternating 29 or 30 days per month. so every couple years they have a 'leap month' rather than our 'leap day'. so the year my mom was born, she was actually born in the second 'july'. and that day equated to our august 30th. many years passed and never again did her lunar calender birthdate match up wit our gregorian calender birthdate. but this year it did! and it was like the first time in 36 years or something like that. i don't really kno how all this works out. but anyway. it was a special one.

     

1. bday girl. 2. mom & dad. 3. mom & dad & uncle. 4. bday cake drawing by me. lol. looks like a 4yr old drew it...

slippy shoulders

embrace is a pretty interesting product. if you find that your bra straps are constantly slipping off your shoulders but don't want to buy racer-back bras (or can't find them, etc), then you can use this product to clip the staps together. like a racer-back bra.

travel stories

+------------- Bizarre Travel Agent Stories ---------------+  

From a former Washington, D.C. travel agent of over 30 years  

* A New Hampshire Congresswoman called to ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window.  

* A Candidate's Staffer called, wanting to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information then she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts." Without trying to make her look like the stupid one, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in Massachusetts. Capetown is in Africa." Her response? Click.  

* A Senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean view room. I tried to explain that is not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me. I looked on the map, and Florida is a very thin state!"  

* A Lawmaker's wife asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada?" I said, "No." She said, "But they look so close on the map."  

* A Bush cabinet member's aide called and asked if they could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up the reservation, I noticed they had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, "I heard Dallas was a big airport, and we want the car so we can drive between gates to save time."  

* An Illinois Congresswoman wanted to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:20am and got into Chicago at 8:33am. I tried to explain that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois, but she could not understand the concept of time zones. Finally, I told her the plane went very fast. She bought it!  

* A New York lawmaker asked, "Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to whom?" I said, "No, why do you ask?" She replied, "Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said "FAT." I'm overweight and I think that's very rude!" After putting her on hold so I could "look into it" (I was actually laughing), I came back to her and explained the city code for Fresno, CA is "FAT," and that the label was only a destination tag.  

* A Senator's aide inquired about a trip package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?"  

* A freshman Congressman called from the airport to ask, "How do I know which plane to get on?" I asked him what exactly did he mean. He replied, "You told me my flight number is 823, but none of these darn planes have numbers on them."  

* A lady Senator called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola, FL. Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes?" I asked her if she meant "fly to Pensacola, FL on a commuter plane"? She said, "Yeah, whatever!"  

* A senior Senator had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded him he needed a visa. "Oh, no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had one." I double-checked and, sure enough, his stay required a visa. When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times. Every time they've accepted my American Express!"

* A New Mexico Congresswoman called to make reservations. "I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York." The agent was at a loss for words. Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the town?" "Yes, what flights do you have?" she replied. After some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am. I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Rhino anywhere." The lady retorted, "Oh, don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!" The agent pulled out a map of New York state and finally asked, "You don't mean 'Buffalo,' do you?" "That's  
it! I knew it was a big animal!"

* I had someone who wanted to stay at the Bob Newhart Inn in Connecticut. When I explained that the inn was fictional, the customer became very irate and insisted, "I know it is real, I see people check in every week!"