Friday, June 28, 2002 i just had to add this. this is too funny. You’re Britney Spears! What Kind of Pop Princess Are You? Quiz by Jonah i actually had to lie to get this. at first they told me i was michelle branch, but i wasnt having that. and then they tried to say i was mandy moore. but the third time, i got it! 2:06 AM

one man's garbage is another man's treasure the humidity is at ninetyfreakingsix percent outside right now at 132am. i just came back from watching minority report. i liked it. at first i wasnt to ecstatic to be watching it. i was tired, and all i wanted to do was lie down. eh. i think i was having more fun dipping popcorn in the cheese. but, i think my ten bucks was well spent. the cell phone i wanted isnt on sale anymore. grrr. so now i dont know if i even want to get the phone. i cant stand the motorola functions, and the phone doesnt even have an alarm. but, supposedly, the unlimited nights and weekends offer is going to expire on june 30th. i dont know whether i should believe the lady i was dealing with over the phone. but then, when the 30th comes, and the offer expires, i am going to be so pissed off. but i still have this other stupid phone that i cant even give away til september, that's if austria still wants it. do you get mad when people call you austria instead of your first name? 1:32 AM

Wednesday, June 26, 2002 hmmm... according to this, these are the top 24 places i would most likely consider the 'perfect' place to live: 1. seattle, washington 2. cincinnati, ohio 3. carlisle, pennsylvania 4. portland, oregon 5. long island, ny 6. st. louis, missouri 7. kent, washington 8. colorado springs, co 9. tacoma, washington 10. minneapolis-st. paul, minnesota 11. indianapolis, indiana 12. toledo, ohio 13. bellingham, washington 14. salt lake city, utah 15. nyc, ny 16. denver, co 17. hartford, ct 18. clevland, oh 19. spokane, washington 20. omaha, nebraska 21. albuquerque, new mexico 22. philadelphia, pennsylvania 23. providence, rhode island 24. new haven, connecticut ok, where is san fransisco? chicago, even. there are three places in washington, only one of them i know of. the only places i would even consider living is nyc, because its right across from me and philadelphia, because it looks so much like nyc. it rains too much in seattle. i would never live in long island...too much traffic. and big hair. and cancerous waste ground they have turned into community homes. the majority of these places i wouldnt even visit if i were on vacation. wha the hell is there to do in omaha, nebraska? no offense to people living in omaha. 2:11 PM

long time no see i got a phone call from a long lost friend the other day. i havent seen or spoken to this person in quite a while. i think my birthday was the last time...actually i got a message on my voicemail because i was too lazy to get my phone in the other room. i think that was the best thing ive heard in a long time. its funny how you might think that people have forgotten you, but one day, out of the blue, they decide to let you know they've been thinking about you. you cant see, but i'm smiling. did you ever notice how waitresses in diners have a wide assortment of hair colors in their staff? i saw yellow (no, not blond. yellow), red, brown and white today. i wonder why that is. you know how your teacher used to say, "you can never ask dumb questions"? i totally and wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. or maybe it's redundant questions. my patience is wearing thin with this lady. maybe its just me. maybe i am just an impatient person when it comes to teaching people things. eh. p.s. dear mark, the design is very clean. you should change the font though. smaller font. make it look more streamlined. i like it. i might be there in the middle of july. around the 14th. found a good ticket. love, lyn 12:49 PM

Monday, June 24, 2002 you are too funny dear mark, i am very flattered that you think i actually did this myself, but as you and i both know, i have the html skills of a 5 year old. although i am convinced there are 5 year olds out there that actually more computer savvy than i. no, i enlisted the help of a site called blogskins.com. its just gives you more of a selection of templates than blogger does. although i will take credit for minute details such as: 1. my archive listing. yes, i changed that myself. amazing what time and patience can produce (and copying html codes from other sites.) 2. my blogger button. it took me forever to place it at the bottom of the page. hours of guessing and re-guessing. 3. my counter button. i picked out the font. my next task is to actually download pictures. i've come to the conclusion that pictures really help to illustrate certain emotions that words alone cannot. that means i have to get a camera. or a scanner. eh. love, lyn ps. i went to vw today. some mumbo-jumbo about my air compressor/filter/something being faulty. $414. no words. they are just lucky i dont have a picture to describe the emotion i am feeling right now. p.p.s. the guy helping me at vw this morning looked alot like sean lennon. maybe it was the glasses. 1:00 PM

Saturday, June 22, 2002 i swear, this is the last time i logged off. i did. and i went to the kitchen to get myself a glass of water before i shut off the computer. i opened up the fridge and there was a basket of strawberries taking up the whole first shelf. that has got to be a sign from above. today is going to be a good day. just wanted to share. 2:24 AM

one last thing to ponder would it be too extravagant to buy three cameras in one year? lately, for some reason, i have been craving a digital camera. and i usually shy away from things too technological for my undeveloped tech self. but this is too good to be true (check wishlist). i really think i'm going to break down this weekend and change my phone service. i need therapy. 2:19 AM

the resemblance is uncanny j thinks i look like lilo. i dont know whether i should be offended or take it as a compliment. he says the similarity lies mainly with our pudgy noses. its perky, dammit. the cutest part of the movie was when she pulled out her camera to take a picture of a heavy set man. j shook my arm and whispered loudly, "sweetie, that IS you!" i should be sleeping now, i am supposed to wake up early tomorrow. i figured since i only had four hours of sleep last night, i would be exhausted right now. but my need to blog seems to take more precedence. i was falling asleep earlier. as a matter of fact, as soon as i got in the car, i realized how tired i was. all througout dinner my eyes grew heavier and heavier and i yearned for a comfy chair, unlike the ones they have at archetypus. its funny how people can get very belligerent waiting on line for a g-rated disney movie. there was some confusion with the line and people where making all sorts of lines of their owns. and the people who got there first were becoming very disgruntled because there were no ushers to control the chaotic line cutting. its a kids movie, for goodness sake. people were afraid they werent going to get good seats. the theatre wasnt even packed. not even close. its 11:15 pm. how many little kids do you know are still up at this time? i liked it. got in for free because we used the free passes we got when michelle, ed, j and i watched unfaithful. go figure. i'm not sleepy now. arg. 1:35 AM

Friday, June 21, 2002 did you do something different with your hair? this new layout is the product of pure boredom coupled with a bout of insomnia. i figured i didnt need the list on the side so much now that i've dedicated a whole page to getting to know me. my neck is cramping because ive been sitting in this position for a while. lilo and stitch tonight. yahooey. 3:34 PM

Wednesday, June 19, 2002 look at me! how technologically advanced i have become. pat myself on the back for my computer geniosity. i have just put a counter on my site so i can see how really unpopular i am. i will keep hitting my site so i look cool. as you can tell, i'm bored. because i have blogged three times in one day. which is highly unusual. but i feel sick and dont want to go outside. so i will stay inside and harrass my computer til it stops talking to me. 9:30 PM

what the freak is wrong with blogger? i am trying to update my template because i have nothing better to do. and in doing so, i have to switch back and forth to the template thingee. but whenever i do that, it reverts back to my old template when i still had a crush on frank nicotero. and it doesnt seem to want to register that i have moved on to eric bana and sean biggerstaff (oliver wood in harry potter). and each time i go back to the template i have to write everything down AGAIN. this is very annoying. i'm still not feeling well. but i did have tacos for lunch today. i had to wait a half an hour for them, but whatever. i blame the inefficiency of the taco bell/kfc employees. and its raining outside. 4:32 PM

i'm not feeling well. ecch. this morning i woke up and i wanted to drop to the floor from exhaustion. from sleep. i was exhausted from sleep. i think there is something inherently wrong with that. yesterday i was taking some really nice pictures of the sunset when i remembered i was shooting in black & white film. which totally defeats the purpose. oh what an ass am i. i want taco bell supreme tacos and a pepsi. there is no reason for me to be blogging at this moment. i have no motivation to write anything substantial or even just entertaining. i go. i promise not to come back until i find something fundamentally important to tell you. or atleast funny. 12:29 PM

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 I'm completely down-to-earth! Find your soul type at kelly.moranweb.com. 2:24 PM

amazing, absolutely amazing i recently developed my last six rolls of film. the last of a dynasty of undeveloped film. for the first time since grammar school, i am roll free. and what treasures did i uncover! 1. joyce, bles, kat and me during joyce's pregnancy with brianna 2. joyce's baby shower for brianna 3. brianna's birth 4. wyoming 1999 5. paris 2000 6. christmas at glenn's 7. new years at rivendell 8. randy's play 9. raps semi-formal 2000&2001 10. bles' birthday @hunkmania 11. michelle's 21st birthday 12. harvest moon pictures 13. stillhetto's (dont ask) 14. marissa's bday at bistro latino there are some pretty good ones, but there are certain ones i wish i lost so i wouldnt have had to waste my money to develop them. ecch. $53.00 down the drain. at least i dont have to wonder what is in those rolls anymore. i have some criticisms about nbc's new reality game show, dog eat dog. although i thought it was highly entertaining, i was a bit disturbed at the last segment of the show, where the people in the 'dog pound' (those that either lost dares or were kicked off by the people that completed the dares) were given one last chance to try to steal the $25,000 back from the last person standing. the winner was given categories which he would then delegate to the losers in the hopes that they would not know anything about those particular categories. which is a good game in theory. but they were giving the cheesiest questions. i mean, if you are going to steal money, wouldnt you atleast make the questions a little harder than, "how many people were stranded on gilligan's island?" or "which ivy league school is located in new haven, connecticut?" blah blah blah. malfunction indicator lamp went off in my car. wtf? see, this is just like the left brake light theory i had. kat's left brake light went out on her car a little bit after she had been driving it. and there have been more than a couple of occasions where i have seen other jettas on the road with the same ailment. then, my left brake light went out. conspiracy? i think so. i think the vw people have been putting faulty left brake lights in their vehicles so they can profit off of it in the long run. what does this have to do with my malfunction lamp indicator? well, if you have been reading past journal entries, you would know that i serviced my car for 40,000 miles not to long ago. $700.00 dollars later they tell me that i dont have to come back in until 80,000 miles, which somehow mollifies the debt vw has caused. now i'm thinking i dont have to get anything done except periodically changing my oil and checking my tires and crap like that. but then they pull this shit which i think is total BULLSHIT. so i pull out my trusty manual to look up what a malfunction indicator lamp really indicates. "If the light does not go out after the engine is started, or if it comes on while you're driving, there is a malfunction in the engine system. no shit, really? Continue driving with reduced power and have the cause corrected right away by an authorized VOLKSWAGEN dealer." that's funny. i thought i didnt have to go in until 80,000 miles. what the fuck did $700 do for my engine when a malfunction indictor lamp is going to go off? didnt you people check that shit already? i swear, these people have some sort of device that monitors your mileage and then when they feel the need to rip you off again, they reel you in with this malfunction indictor lamp bullshit. they know you'll come back. they are the only ones that can turn that shit off. and all they probably have to do is flip some switch and i'll end up paying $150 for it. yeah, so now i have an appointment for next monday. you think that if this were something serious, the lady making the appointments would actually schedule as soon as possible. but no, next monday seems appropriate to her. yesterday i decided to run at the park at 4. so not advisable. i think that's peak uv ray exposure. i was about to drop on the floor from exhaustion and i was still doing my warm up walk. so i think i'll wait until the sun starts to go down before i head to the park. 1:15 PM

Monday, June 17, 2002 3:35 PM

yeah right so my horoscope today says that i am going to have a "frivolous and exciting day" and do something off the wall. not if this day has been going by like the past couple of days. its all very domestic. last week was bed shopping at macys and sleepys. this week is fridge shopping at best buy and sears. i saw the bourne identity on saturday. hmm. pretty good, i guess. really made me want to get my motorola phone. all the spys have it! yesterday was a last minute scramble to get my present together for pater. i made him a card. yes, very fifth grade of me, but i had my reasons. it was a mini-photo album card that had pictures of mater and pater back in the day and present and the same with my brother and me, my dad and my brother, my dad and me and my dad and ethan. it was travel friendly so he could take it to wherever he went, and would always have pictures of us. see, it makes sense. i also got him a framed picture of him and mom that i had blown up to a 5x7. it was a picture of them in boracay with this beautiful sunset in the background. and i got him black hawk down. because what goes better with nostalgic sentimentality then watching horrible visuals of gun battles coupled with the gruesome realities of war and famine in mogadishu? 1:02 PM

Monday, June 10, 2002 fooey. i dislike buying books that have been made into movies that have changed their original covers to the movie version. is that pretentious? something about it disturbs me. like if i were reading it in a train and someone was to look at the book that i were reading and they saw the cover and thought to themselves, "oh, she's only reading that book because it came out in the movies" that would really irk me. not that i would ever know they were thinking that. but that's what i would think they would think. because i would think that if i saw someone reading a book with a movie cover. which is why i prefer to buy the book in the original covers. which you can usually buy in discount bookstores at outlet shopping malls. why am i babbling? another thing i dislike. being trapped indoors on a beautiful day. looking outside at the blue sky and feeling the breeze from the window and knowing that i am stuck indoors watching the dateline special on jewish soldiers in hitler's army. which i must admit was interesting. but still, to just waste a beautiful day is a shame. lately ive been feeling rather...hmm. i dont really know what the word is. poor nets. i really thought they had a chance yesterday. especially in the third quarter when jason kidd went nuts. it actually started to get exciting...i was kicking my feet up in the air for some strange reason. but all for naught. kobe blows. kobe blows. kobe blows. and if i ever see phil jackson in person, i will physically assault him. running dropkick to the face. what a freaking prick. they asked him if his chicago bulls team would be able to beat his lakers team, and prick said that the bulls would definately have trouble. now i know he really didnt answer the question and to say they would have trouble doesnt necessarily mean that they wouldnt be able to beat the lakers, but come on! ech. my head is starting to hurt. oh, i must reinstate my new years resolution...no magazine buying! i've been on the fritz lately...being at the bookstore so often. but i must refrain from this pesky little habit. no need for magazines. 1:02 PM

Sunday, June 09, 2002 really quick i was watching charles osgood on sunday morning this morning during the letter reading segment. someone had written in that osgood should refrain from making any comments that were sport-related because he was obviously not an athlete. in response, osgood said, "sir, i am definately not a athlete, but i am an athletic supporter." am i the only one that thinks that's funny? yesterday's activities consisted of touring the ny botanical gardens, which i must admit, were a little bit of a let down. i envisioned rows of tulips and other exotic flowers just engulfing fields of grass. instead, i just saw fields of grass. a whole lot of grass. apparently we came during the wrong season. the only thing in bloom really was the rose garden. i'm not too fond of roses, so they really didnt hold that much appeal for me. afterwards, i went to the palisades interstate park for some quiet time and picture taking. the drive through the cliffs was nice...at one point serendipity lead me to this waterfall and steps that bordered the waterfall area. there is nowhere to park because its all road, so i had to exit the park, park at a fleet bank, and then walk back into the park (that's alot of park). during the walk, i encountered a hiking path. i figured that i could get to the waterfall from the path, so i went into the woods. and quickly got lost. and paranoid. when you are a girl, walking in the woods alone, several scenarios pop into your head. all of which are not good. and the more i was thinking about it, the more scared i was feeling, and my anxiety heightened. which is not good for directionless people getting themselves lost in the woods. lucky for me, i didnt go very far...at one point, i realized that if i kept on this path, i wouldnt find my way back. it gets very confusing, the trees and bushes looking the same. so i went back on the main road and made my way to the waterfall. hopefully i got some nice pictures out of it. the lighting was kinda iffy. it was around 7, so the sun was already beginning to set...not to mention that i was in the woods. that area is very secluded, and again, while i was taking pictures, i started to psych myself out. everytime i put my eye in the lens, i could almost feel someone behind me about to swing some blunt object over my head to knock me out and proceed to drag me into the deep woods where he would do horrible unmentionable things to me and they would discover my body three months later all decomposed and identifiable only through dental records. i think that i should really go there with someone the next time. rented happenstance because i am still riding this audrey tautou crush. it was no amelie, i'll say that much, but cute nonetheless. 12:20 PM

Thursday, June 06, 2002 kobe blows ive been saying that mantra in my head over and over again for the majority of the morning. there is something so rhythmic about the combination of those two words...i think i'll make it my meditation chant during yoga sessions. i did not see the game in its entirety last night, thank god. michelle was updating me on the first quarter which sounded like an absolute mess, but when i started watching the fourth quarter, they seemed to climb out of that hole. they are just a little scared. intimidated by the massiveness of shaq's elbows in their throats with no possibility of refs calling a foul. frustrated at the way kobe whines and cries when the refs dont kiss his ass. i am not oblivious to the fact that these are two great players, but i still cant stand them. 12:12 PM

Wednesday, June 05, 2002 p.s. i would just like to say, for the record, i hate my cell phone service. screw you, jamie lee curtis. this shit sucks. and now verizon wants to offer unlimited nights and weekends, which is my dream come true. i havent had that offer since my service was cellular one, aka cingular. and the reception on that was screwy. but now you have the "can you hear me now" guy all over the place offering unlimited nights and weekends. they havent offered that since i was a junior in college. AND, and now verizon people can text voicestream people, which was the main reason why i stuck to freaking voicestream. before you couldnt and i wanted the text messaging service. that's how j and i first started to talk. so i'm a sucker...i can admit it. and the phone that i want if i got verizon is on sale at the wiz for $150, as opposed to the usual $400. so should i just suck it up til 12/4/2002, when my voicestream contract ends? or should i just cancel that shit already? i swear, they rip me off every month. my $39.99 becomes $59.99 and then $79.99 and then to some astronomical numbers that i cant possibly compute on my own because their wacked system seems to pull out these insane prices from out of nowhere. and i swear i never use my phone. just because i am afraid of how much they are going to charge me. and i cant get it because freaking voicestream wants another $200 from me just to cancel my service. i'm going to prank call the operators til they kick me off. and whoever at voicestream is doing the pricing, let me tell you something. 600 minutes for 20 some odd days out of the month is a ridiculously low amount of minutes to be giving someone for $39.99. i am SO not getting more! you people suck.suck.suck! how do you not have night minutes? what kind of idiots are you employing? 11:33 AM

giggly. bles once asked me if i knew the scenario of my perfect date. at the time, i didnt have a clear picture in my head, but everything about last night brought that to fruition. i had a great night last night. it was just one of those days where you cant not smile. i guess this day has been long overdue since ive had a lot of crappy ones lately. it all started when i saw j's toes peeking out of the garage. by the time the door was all the way up, i had a smile on my face. just because. i saw amelie last night! finally. it was the most adorably wonderful movie. i was already jumping up and down at the box office, because we actually made it on time with no delays or sudden catastrophes. j was happy because he could see how high i was from finally making it to this movie. i heard j giggling throughout the movie, so i was happy that he was enjoying it. i couldnt stop smiling after i left the movie theater. after the movie ended, we both looked at one another and had the biggest smiles on our faces. how could you not be happy after watching that movie? and audrey tautou is so adorably cute. there are so many cute characters in that movie. i couldnt help but smile. so much cuter than that girl at the pyramid that night with the short hair... and then we left the theater hip to hip, walking in unison. strawberry flavored lips kissing watermelon flavored ones. seeing other people kissing on the street. walking in near-perfect weather towards the car. and we couldnt stop smiling. i highly recommend the movie. i feel like seeing it again today. and shame on me for not bringing my camera. we were at the stoplight right by the theater and i looked up at the movie times, and i really wished i had my camera at that moment so i could take a picture. and usually i am really good about bringing a camera. but this time i forgot the little 35mm one because i left it in the camera bag with the slr. i learned my lesson. afterwards we went to barnes and nobles so i could buy a book and then to dunkin donuts for some coffee. pater had to reschedule his flight...so he wont be back til next wednesday. and my dumbass did it again this morning. went through the ezpass without the tag. one day i am going to come home and there is going to be 20 tickets from the nj turnpike for ezpass violations. knock on wood, havent gotten one yet. 11:11 AM

Monday, June 03, 2002 title goes here i now have this water-filled blister on my thumb from 20 minutes of intense button-pressing courtesy of virtual fighter four. i dont think that my fingers can hack the extreme pressure of constant button pressing. My other hand has this nasty, dried out, peeling callus from tennis. Basically my hands are all jacked up right now. my apologies go out to chris webber, my imaginary boyfriend in the nba. i apologize that the lady with the big head at chevy's yesterday was blocking my view and hindering my cheering for your team. lakers suck. yeah, you heard me austria. its 2 already? i guess that's a good thing. i wanted to go to the park today...the one underneath the gwb for some picture taking...but the entrance is always closed when i pass by. why isnt there anything the least bit scenic in nj? california has lake tahoe and monteray and big sur and the coast...we have exit 12 on the nj turnpike factories and a shit load of malls. oh, and a dirty, syringe-infested coast with murky blue/brown/black water. i need to get out of here! 2:02 PM

which children's storybook character are you? this quiz was made by colleen 1:38 PM