So I got an email forward tonight from Lisa. She’s been in my dad’s side of the family for so long that I consider her another aunt. Her and my aunt (the one who just came back from Aruba) have been friends since they were like 2 years old.

I’m not normally into email forwards because I feel that for the most part they’re completely useless. This one, however, kind of stood out. I’m just going to list it here and see if anyone can get anything out of it. Trust me…I’m sure you will.

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. ! When you say, “I love you,” mean it.

FIVE. When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first! sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it’s the only way to live life completely.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don’t judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

Interesting….eh?

So I went to the library with the boyfriend today to do some in-house research into the wonderful world of Grants. I was having a really hard time finding good resources online, which is a shocker to me because I always find the best resources…so we packed up my laptop and headed on down.

I’m a bit upset with how things went though…fuck that – down right depressed. I found no new information, whatsoever. I still have no idea how to go about writing up a formal grant. I still have no idea on where to look to find a grant organization to submit to either. grants.gov isn’t really of any use to me for the time being, because again – I DON’T HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO WRITE ONE.

So basically it’s been a shitty day, financially. I’m behind on work, I’m gonna get that done tomorrow. I had a ‘personal’ weekend to take because of some shit going on around here so hopefully I’ll be back on track with everything soon. I need to send my laptop out to be fixed. It really is just the top layer that’s scratched because I can easily see letters (every clearly) behind the scratch. I hope it’s just a quick fix that won’t cost me anything. I would seriously run into a huge emotional spiral if I had to shell out money to fix something that’s under warrenty considering the system itself runs at 100%.

For now, Bella’s passed out (and snoring rather loudly) next time. I guess that’s a key sign that I need to get my ass to sleep. My eyes are about to pop out of my head anyway.

Night all…

Note: I’ve been getting A LOT of emails from people telling me that they ‘completed offers’ under one of my referrals. In order to have a completed offer you need to pull out a credit card and go through the process of signing up for one of the offers listed on the site. Creating an account and typing in an email address is NOT completing an offer. If that were the case, I’d have made like $540,000 from just nb4f.com considering I have over 300 sign-ups under my referral. So make sure you’ve used a credit card to purchase something under your offers panel before you email me. It’s just a waste of my time…and your’s if you aren’t going to do something the right way and just drag me along with you.

It’s about a half hour to 10 which can only mean that Nip/Tuck will be on soon. It’s been a long day so it’ll be nice to curl up in bed with my hot chocolate and enjoy the only show I can say I’m in love with. Next to That 70’s Show of course.

I did quite a bit of cleaning today, and then I did some grocery shopping. My sister keeps bringing home junk food and I’m getting really sick of living off peanuts and bagels. So, I went out and loaded up on chicken, meat, pasta and veggies so I’ll have enough food in the house for the next couple of days to keep me sane.

I didn’t do so well at the casino this weekend. I went up with $130, and I lost it. My aunt handed me $100 for my birthday and I lost that as well. I made the last $20 stretch for about an hour and then it was time to go home. It wasn’t a TOTAL loss though. I had dinner at Big Bubba’s, which is excellent by the way. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the boyfriend while everyone was off doing their own thing. I was bouncing from machine to machine. I was around a few people that hit big jackpots and drooled in jealousy. Some older lady next to me won around $2,000 and then another girl behind me (on a machine I was on earlier by the way) won around $5,000 so yay for them…boo for me.

I’m going to be doing some cleaning tomorrow and on Thursday I’ll be doing some packing. I’m going to be at my aunts house for a week while she’s in Aruba. The boyfriend will be around so that’s always a good thing. After Thanksgiving I’m going on another week-long vacation, so I’m basically spending over a month out of the house at this point heh.

I’m ass deep in work, so I’m not overly concerned about the money I lost this weekend. I’ll basically have made it all back by tomorrow afternoon so there’s nothing to cry about there. I’m waiting very patiently for a client to get back to me considering he owes me around $500, hopefully that comes through.

I know it’s a few hours early but I doubt I’ll be on line long enough to do this at midnight so you’ll notice the November 2006 theme is up and running. I wanted to be as simple as possible and I think I succeeded. I’m done with all of the Ad-Brite stuff because it wasn’t really bringing in any money anyway, so there’s no point in it anymore. I have a few ideas that I’m playing with as far as template business goes. I’m sure I’ll continue to shoot those ideas around in my head until I either put them on paper or forget them completely. Either way (as usual) it works in my head and I guess that’s all that matters.

It’s about 20 minutes to 10:00 and I think I’m going to head off. I need to boil some water and straighten up quick before I sit down for an hour with some ‘me’ time for the first time today.

Later gators.

To sound about as annoying and needy as possible:

Happy Birthday To Me!

Send me money – donate@krissy.nu – kthnx haha.

Normally I don’t like the idea of email forwards. Although I’ve seen this one a few times before, something just felt write about pasting it today heh.

1. Mary had a little pig, she kept it fat and plastered; and when the price of pork went up, she shot the little bastard.

2. MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB Her father shot it dead. Now it goes to school with her, between two hunks of bread.

3. JACK AND JILL Went up the hill to have a little fun. Stupid Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son.

4. SIMPLE SIMON met a Pie man going to the fair. Said Simple Simon to the Pie man, “What have you got there?” Said the Pie man unto Simon “Pies, you Dumb Ass”

5. HUMPTY DUMPTY sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings’ horses, and all the kings’ men. Had scrambled eggs, for breakfast again.

6. HEY DIDDLE, DIDDLE the cat took a piddle, all over the bedside clock. The little dog laughed to see such fun. Then died of electric shock.

7. GEORGIE PORGY Pudding and Pie. Kissed the girls and made them cry. And when the boys came out to play, he kissed them too ’cause he was gay.

8. There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad…….. She got a fur coat, jewels, a waterfront condo, and a sports car.

Quoted from The Glen Cove Record Pilot – September 21 edition.

Law & Order: Locale Glen Cove
If you’re a fan of the television program Law & Order: Criminal Intent, you may be watching an episode in the next couple of weeks and see some very familiar sites. The popular TV series was filming in the City of Glen Cove recently, along with lights, cameras and actors including stars Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe, who play, respectively, Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames.

The shot was arranged by the City of Glen Cove in association with Debbie Regan Locations, a local company which has used many a site in our fair city to do commercials, films, TV, videos and print shoots.

After a morning of filming on West Island, the crew headed for Robert M. Finley Middle School, temporarily renamed Water Haven High School. This reporter was lucky enough to catch up with Mr. D’Onofrio and was given the screen name “Scoop” by the actor. He also suggested Scoop “get out her pad and pen” to take notes on the “inside scoop” of what the afternoon held. “First,” he said, “I’m going to change my clothes. Then we’re going to rehearse.” It’s a direct quote.

After all the real-life middle schoolers had gone home, the crew got down to work on a scene with a cast of high school-aged extras and regular cast members.

According to Alex Galvez, a location assistant for the program, the episode called Siren Call, will be the fifth episode of the 2006 season, the sixth season of the show, and is scheduled to air on Tuesday, October 3 although the date of airing may change. TV fans understand that.

So tune in on Tuesday nights to NBC Channel 4, at 9 p.m. starting October 3 to see Glen Cove ready for her close up. You’ll recognize her when you see her.

Now, minus the fact that I absolutely hate the chick who wrote this article because of how phony she is (went to school with the whore), the article is true. I have a few ‘behind the scenes’ pictures but my scanner isn’t hooked up at the moment. The cool thing is that a few of the extras for the show came right out of the drama class of the actual GC High School (which is located about a half mile up the road from the middle school).

I haven’t seen the middle school in a good 8 or so years so it’ll be interesting to see how a few of the hallways have changed. I know they’ve moved some things around for filming but I’m also positive that a few of the ‘key aspects’ of the school (that are usually the first thing to hit you in the face when you walk in the door) will still be there. I’m excited for more than one reason of course.

This isn’t the first time the Law & Order series has shown itself in town. A few years back an episode of SVU was filmed here. There was also mention of Glen Cove in Law & Order, SVU and CI in past episodes as well…nifty right?

I haven’t watched the newer episodes of CI in a while because my Tuesday nights are wrapped up in Nip/Tuck lately and I’d completely forgotten that CI is on at 9pm and not 10pm so I’ll be able to get all of my shows in without conflicting schedules. W00t!

There will be a new layout up within the next 8 hours, once it turns midnight here on the island the theme will change over automatically to my October theme.

For now, I’m going to head back to cleaning up my room. I’m going to be taking my AC out today so I need to take a few boxes out of my closet so that it can fit back in there…heh.