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It has been 1 year, 5 months, and 13 days … OK let’s just say 532 days. I can break it down further … maybe 12,768 hours or 766,080 minutes or 45,964,800 seconds, and counting! This is the total amount of time that I have been on a diet, EVER, in my life. The longest I have stuck with something of this magnitude and have had such success. I was about to get all proud of myself and say I lost 100 pounds but I just went back to check the date on my highest weight in with a doctor and I was off by 9.5 pounds! So to date I have only lost 90.5 pounds and only 78.8 pounds since I started 532 days ago. It is fucking hard work and I say I hate doing it but I feel and look a million times better. I am keeping it up and will hopefully continue to lose, I want to get down 30 pounds more. YES I WAS THAT FAT! I am not comfortable in my new skin yet and I am happy I can shop for cloths in any store now. I just hate having to try everything on because I have no idea what size to buy. I am also trying hard not to buy too much since I hope to not be able to fit into them in the next six months.

Oh and this year I did about Five 5K’s … my favorite one was at Yankee Stadium even thought I had to “run” up stairs. I will be doing this one again next year so I will be sure to hit you kids up for some donations!!! I hope to do six if not more 5K’s in 2013. And in 2013 I will be able to announce that 100-pound loss …. Wait for it!



]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10394 I have a cousin who's name is Olive, I like her very much ... well until she had a baby and named her Michelle (my sisters name) and not Kelly. I still like her better than the food olive.
]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10380 Hello Robots! 

Wanted to update you on the diet progress so far I have lost 40 lbs and I feel great! 



I also have a new inspiration have you seen Alison Moyet these days ???? she looks AMAZING

]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10305 So my whole life I never put myself on a diet. I don’t like the word diet just because for me it implies restriction. I never restrain from anything. I like to think of myself as a free spirit, I do what I like and say what is on my mind. I have never participated in the weight loss trends throughout the years.

Well times they are a changing! I am turning the big 40 this year and thought I should try this *cough* diet thing. Maybe I should try and be a little healthier as I am getting older and have a lot more years of parting ahead of me. I joined Weight Watchers Online as it looked to be the only diet program that I can do without having to buy special food or join a “special” program or worst stand in front of a room of people to tell them how fat I was. Hello my name is Cootie Girl and I am obese! Yeah no, that is not for me. The online version I don’t need to go to meeting if I don’t want to (who would). Anyway it has been going good so far 11 weeks and I have lost 25 pounds. WHOOT! I just wish my Wii Fit avatar would not have such a giant belly but I am working on that.


The hardest thing about this program is BEER!!!! I miss you man I really do. Remember back in the day (March 2011) when I could have about 8 of you in a night. Yeah I am a whore like that I can have 8 beers and still feel good about myself the next day. Not anymore :( I mention March 2011 because that is the month were I reached the 100 beers needed to become a gold club member with the Bronx Ale House Beer Club. Ah the good old days. My 100th beer was Ommegang’s Gnomegang. Damn that was a good brew! Now don’t get the wrong impression I am not giving up beer for good. I can only have about 3-4 beers a week if I want to continue to lose weight. Lose it and not gain it back! Getting old kind of sucks.
]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10298 I don't know where to begin ... it has been way too long since I wrote anything. Seems like time is passing way too fast around me and I just need it to pause so I can to get back to life ... back to reality.  I have been swept up in this social networking - hot gadgets or rather any distractions that can suck the time and life from your soul.  I feel like I have been so busy trying to keep up with the youth of today. Hanging around with 20 year old's who really don't "get it" yet is not helping. I own a Nintendo DS (never use it anymore), a Wii which I use to stream Netflix and not much else and now an Android phone so I can connect to facebook and twitter every 10 min. Who is this person I have become? Today alone I have spent over 6 hours on turntable.fm playing songs and hoping to get enough AWESOME clicks to change my avatar. SAD right? I don't know if I can keep up with all these neat and interesting things you can do ....  Words with Friends? Angry Birds? and don't get me started on all the podcasts I have downloaded and listened to (Mike and Tom Eat Snacks is the best you really should check it out)  For what? to seem cool amoungst the masses? I need to take a break from all of this and pick up a book or go for a walk ..... it's kind of hard when I feel like I am hooked up to the system.



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This go's out to the boy that lives across the hall .... I hope you can't hear me singing this to you through the walls!




]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10198 This is the song I quoted in my yearbook and it still applies today....

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed
asleep today

I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
this close to me

-The Cure  "Close To Me"
]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10163 1 - Hello there friend! it's been a while.

2 - I am really digging on KEXP these days .... am I the last to know about this station?  kexp.org

C - I am always nude when I shower.
]]> http://www.happyrobot.net/words/cootie_girl.asp?id=10094 I have a sick Nightmare Before Christmas collection that I am not so happy about because I keep it all crammed into 4 big tupperware bins in the closet. I should get a list together and photograph it all to hopefully sell one day.  I guess I will when I give up my dream to have a house with a Nightmare Before Christmas themed office. Yes I still think one day I will have this office and I will need all my treasures to go in it.  In my mind this office is the coolest thing you have ever seen. Even if you are not a fan of the movie or the style of Tim Burton's movies you would think this room is cool. So my problem is I not only have I NOT stopped buying Nightmare stuff (just picked up the Deadly Nightshade Decanter from the Disney Store) but I really really really want this

www.burtonelfman.com/

I really really really do .... but I know it will just live in a box in my closet.
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I am not sure how old I was; I want to say 7 or 8 when I found out Santa was not real. My mother had to tell me that he didn’t exist so I wouldn’t be disappointed when I didn’t get the Barbie Dream House I so desperately wanted for Christmas. Not sure if my parents then felt bad for me but when I woke up that Christmas the Dream House was under the tree. I love being the youngest of 4 girls. Spoiled brat should be my middle name.

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1. we both like wine
2. we both like to take pictures
3. we both like to review movies/books/tv shows
4. we’re both bloggers
5. we both like mix tapes
6. we have the same feelings about DMB (or at least pony and I do)
7. we both fear or are intrigued by cougars
8. we both love Korean fried chicken
9. we both got punk’d by stu and honky cracker with their road trip out to see Victoria for her 21st birthday
10. we are both a members of Danny Chambers posse
11. we both like cake

Happy Anniversary happyrobot!

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Ok I use to have a ridiculously long list of deal breakers when it came to potential mates. I am older now and seems I have been building the “perfect man” in my head that I will never find him. I mean it is hard to find a Clive Own/Craig Ferguson/Javier Bardem/Cary Grant mix that isn’t already married or gay or both. Yes I know Cary Grant was gay but he still looked handsome in all those movies. I had narrowed my list to 5 things but even then my friends said I was being ridiculous. So I now have 3 and they are:

Smoker

Douchebag

And I am not sure if there is a name for this but people who dress up in costume and role-play like civil war reenactments or jousting knights. (kinky role-playing might be fun but not this).

Really Smoking is my #1 deal breaker. That is just fucking nasty. Others on my list were kids (wanting them/having them), divorces, effeminate men, little people, bad tattoos, prisoners, felons, Irish people, drunks, white sneakers, drug addicts, high wasted dad jeans (with shirts tucked in), Devil’s fans, ponytails, all of NJ, small hands, bug collectors, people from the bible belt, guys that dress like Matrix/silent Bob with the full length trench coats, hoarders, men that still live with their parents, men that spend way too much time playing video games and men with cats (like more than 2 at a time – I know a guy with 6 right now and his apartment does not smell pretty). OK I think I can go on and on but some of these should just be givens anyway so it was easy to pair down the list. I asked my friends what were deal breakers for them and this is their response:

Atheist

Fave Band: Dave Matthews Band

Can't be under 5"8, but there may be a small amount of flexibility on this - very small

Voted for Dubya 2004




This isn’t asking too much now is it?


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In early 2000’s I had my mental work breakdown where I quit my job out of spite. I felt wild rebellious and free. The fun lasted only a few months when I realized my money was running out and I needed to get a job again. After 2 years of freelancing I landed a job with an old co-worker of mine. Rich was my boss for 3 years and trained me to someday replace him at the shop. The time came when Rich got a new job at a new company and left me. I was unhappy because even though I was ready to step up, the company didn’t think so and I was stuck in the worst place to work ever. Rich’s new company luckily had a spot for me and he brought me over. I was happy again. At the time I became a homeowner and well wanted to do some DIY projects. I had asked to borrow Rich’s Dewalt drill so I can hang some stuff in my apartment. Rich was kind enough to not only lend me a drill but give me the battery charger and some extra drill bits. I was delighted to make some holes in my newly painted walls.

Not long after I borrowed Rich’s drill did he end up going back to our previous company. No way in hell would I ever work at that place again. I kept his drill as a consolation prize for him leaving me twice and he will never see his drill again. I don’t feel bad about it either – he was the stupid one to give me the charger for it.


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So I am having a hard time deciding between a Gym Membership or a Wii Fit. I am not Rockefeller so I can’t do both. The gym membership I have had before and enjoyed 6 of the 12 months I went. Just like my Nintendo DSi, it too was enjoyed for 6 of the 12 months I have had it.

I was weighting my options (pun intended) and came up with a list of pros and cons for both.

Pros for the gym:
place to go
pool
variety of classes
equipment I don’t have at home
sauna

Cons for the gym:
year contract
no locations in walking distance to my apt
lugging my gear
buying new gear to lug around
cost twice as much as Wii Fit

Now I can join a lesser-priced gym closer to my apartment but that would only be to use the elliptical machine. If I make the commitment to a gym it should be for the full gym experience – classes, equipment and a pool!

Pros for the Wii Fit:
can do it at home anytime
variety of games
will have for more than a year (unless I break it)
half the price of a year gym membership
no lugging anything but my fat ass around

Cons for the Wii Fit:
no pool
no elliptical machine

It sounds like I am leaning towards the Wii Fit – I mean I have had Personal Trainer Walking for my DSi for about 6 months now and I am still carrying the pedometer with me. It is set for 7,000 steps a day, which for the most part I reach (maybe not so on Mondays). My digital me makes me want to walk more – sounds a little odd I know. Oh and did I tell you my sister has a pool so I can go visit her if I need to swim. It must just come down to motivation. I have to have it and have a lot of it …. But then I know myself and my will is not strong. Not today anyhow. What to do?

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New attitude that is for sure! I hope you all had a wonderful fun fill 2009, I sure did. So much so that I hadn’t posted a thing since I was laid off and sent to Dallas to train my replacements for a week. Yeah that last post of me and Tony Romo was taken when I was sent to Dallas to train people to do my job so I can not have one anymore. UGH just the thought of that company makes me want to vomit.

2009 is so last year! I lost my job, found a new job, met some new people, reconnected with old friends, tried some new things and ended the year feeling really good about life in general. What? I know you wouldn’t think you would hear such things from this (use to be) negative Nelly. Yeah even the douche bag who thought I was in my 60’s this year didn’t bring me down (ok maybe he did just a little but I am over it now – well really he aged me 25 year. Fucker. Ok yeah, no I am over it).

Two years ago on January 1st I started a tradition to meet up with two of my friends to sit down and write out actual goals for the year. These are not resolutions, which get discarded by the 2nd week of January. They are actual goals (or to do list) that we set out for ourselves for the coming year. We haven’t a chance to meet for 2010’s list but we will soon. I think after the first year I did so-so with my list. Last year’s list was about a 60% improvement so this year I am expecting to exceed expectations. I have to say last year I had predicted that something was happening at my job and my to do list had fix resume and get it out there. Lucky for me I was only 3 months unemployed before I landed a job. I have been working here just over 6 months now and I have to say this is the best job I have had since working at Tower Records 20 years ago!

Unlike Tower I do not have a locker full of booze here but I am surrounded by music and good people who make the job way more bearable. I am actually having fun again at work and it doesn’t really bother me that I am still a customer service type paper pusher. So here I am in 2010 to proclaim that I am happy! There I said it!

Happy New Year everyone!

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and no Jessica was not there.


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I must have been about 6 at the time, I am really not sure as there is no photographic evidence of this incident however the memory is forever burned in my brain. I remember it was at some community center in my neighborhood, possibly the bingo hall from years ago. My sister and her friends were auditioning for the gong show. Two of them had boxes around their bodies with circles cut out in the front to represent a washing machine and a dryer. The three of them sang “God Bless My Underwear” which went something like this:

God bless my underwear,
my only pair.

Stand beside them,
and guide them,

Through the rips,
through the holes,
through the tears.

From the washer,
to the dryer,
to the clothesline in the air.

God bless my underwear,
my only pair.

They had this giant pair of off white tighty whites that looked worn and as they sang the song they put the pair in the washer then the dryer then they all held it high in the air at the end. I will never forget them they were HUGE underwear.

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I don’t think I have ever been serious enough with another person that they could achieve the status of ex. The longest I dated a guy was like 2 or 3 months, the shortest would be one glorious night in a dirty bathroom at some dive bar. I’m not proud of this fact. I know I like the ones I cannot have. There is always a married man, a man living with his girlfriend or the ever-elusive gay man that steals my heart. If I did have to write about an ex I would have to tell you about this guy I met in the winter of 2002. I went to a comedy show with these two friends of mine. We were standing in line when this guy just a few people in front of us kept looking back at the three of us. My other two friends started fixing them selves up for this new prospect. I just wanted to see the show. During the show we got a few glances and my friends were convinced he was looking at one of them. To their surprise it was me he approached after the show to get my number. He wasn’t bad looking and I still don’t know why we never really clicked. It could be the fact that he lived in New Jersey. I am not a fan of that state. It could also be the fact that he never really asked me out on a proper date where he would hold the doors open or even pick me up at my apartment or take me home.

Now that I think back on it he was a really bad boyfriend. There is one thing I do miss about him. He had this certain “boon” that I have yet to find it’s equal in any other. Not even in a novelty toy have I found it’s equivalent. I miss my boon.

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Marital status : SINGLE

Employment Status : UNEMPLOYED

Current Debt : approximately 150K

Retirement Savings Plan : Declining daily (amount lost to date : approximately 50K)


Company that laid you off throwing a party just to kick you in the ass : Priceless!



Sorry I don’t mean to be a Debbie downer about this. If you only knew the crap I had to deal with you would be amazed that I haven’t gone off the deep end and started knocking off some people.


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