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A great hair day.

Hello Kitty Ice Packs!!! I was so thrilled when I found these at the store.

I decided to make a seashell "headpiece" to go along with my Halloween costume this year. I dressed up as a mermaid. This is the head band I picked up from the dollar store as well as some sea shells, and with the help of a glue gun, my sea shell tiara/crown/head-piece was created. I'm very proud of it!

Marnel helps me with my make-up, I want to be as lovely as her!

We go out.

Hang out.

Strike poses.

I don't smoke pot, but I really like this song anyway

Yesterday I brought my jog up to 1 hour at 3.9 mph. I didn't work out on Thursday or Friday, because I had to be up at 3am all last week for my first week of training at my new job, and was only getting 2 hours of sleep per night. Today I'm going to jog another hour at 3.9 mph as well, and this should make up for the days I missed. I wonder at what mph I would have to be going to no longer be jogging and officially be running?
The new job is going well so far. The things I have been trained to do so far are pretty simple. This coming week I'm starting my second week of training, and I'm on my real schedule. No one at my work speaks English, so I'm brushing up on my Spanish skills which is great. I'm pretty much a secretary for these two guys that run the warehouse, and I also am supposed to give safety/policy/whatever meetings and training to people from the warehouse. Also if one of the warehouse laborers calls out sick from work, I have to do their job out in the factory. The factory/warehouse is for a bakery and we make granola bars like Clif, Odwalla, and Luna bars, etc., and then they get packaged and put into boxes. That's more or less the new job. I like that it's only ten minutes away from home, I don't have to sit on my ass all day and that I pass right by my gym on the way to and from work.

I brought up the speed on my daily jog to 3.8 mph, today. I was full of energy tonight, and after the first 30 minutes I felt so good I just kept running and clocked 45 minutes. There are phrases I like to repeat to myself (in my head) when I run to keep me motivated, things like "EXPLOSIVE ENERGY", and it sounds kind of silly but it actually kind of helps. Also, my mom gave me an IPod shuffle for my birthday so it really helps when a song I love comes on and it makes me want to keep going. I know 3.8 mph isn't much, but when I started running, I started jogging outdoors and it was a HUGE struggle to jog a mile and it would take me about 17 minutes! I use to only like jogging at night, and the air was cold which added to my struggle, and if I missed a night, it usually meant I missed a day entirely of working out. Now that I jog indoors, breathing is easier and I can do it anytime of day. It's also easier to track my progress as well as include a class from the gym either before or after my running. So when I started out running indoors, I started running at 3.2 mph with a 1.5 decline and I would jog no less than 30 minutes, but no longer than 1 hour. I have been gradually increasing my speed, and today I am at 3.8 mph and 0 decline. My goal is to run for 30 minutes everyday, which I have been doing without fail for three weeks now, and to gradually get faster and faster. Sometimes I feel like running longer than 30 minutes, and that's okay with me.
I'm excited to start my new job on Monday. I think I'm going to get a pedometer so I can track how many steps I take per day. I wanted to go back to school this semester but I never came up with the money to pay off that financial aid overpayment, so I guess it's going to have to wait til next semester. I've decided to take a watercolor workshop instead, which should keep my mind stimulated and I think it'll be fun. Been feeling arts n crafty lately.
If anyone is wondering, Houdini's leg is getting better, but he still has a slight limp. He's probably going to go to the vet this weekend and get checked out. He needs his flea treatment anyway. Poor kitty.

I just got these in
Smoke

:D

I got the 68-hour a week long-term "Project Coordinator" temp assignment. They called me this afternoon to let me know that they want me to start on Monday.
I had an interview at 8:30am for another job through another temp agency, and though I woke up at 6am, I pushed the snooze button so many times that my alarm turned off, I guess I probably turned it off accidentally at some point. At 9am the temp agency called me to ask me why I wasn't at my interview. I rambled into the phone for a little while and finally she said she'd find out if she could reschedule my interview for later and call me back.
I went to the gym and took a one hour weight lifting class prior to my 30 minute daily jog. I ran a little bit faster today. I was worried that I wouldn't get either job.
When I got home I called my temp agency back and she said she rescheduled my interview for tomorrow at 8:30am, and that she'd give me a wake up call in the morning, which was extremely nice of her. As soon as I got off the phone with her, my other temp agency called and offered me the job I had been sitting by the phone all week to hear about. So then I had to call her back and cancel my interview for tomorrow and luckily she didn't answer after I tried to reach her about four times, so I just e-mailed her. I feel bad that I made her go to all that trouble. But the only other option was to go to the interview and act really weird so that they wouldn't hire me, or just not show up at all without calling to cancel.
I'm glad I got the temp assignment that I did. It's closer to home, longer in duration, and it pays more. The only problem (so far) is that it's a huge building + factory and I'm going to be running around a lot and I need slip-resistant shoes but slip-resistant shoes are always ugly. Why can't they make slip-resistant Vans? Or Converse? Hmm. Hopefully I can find something nice online. I feel like I'm wasting my money if I don't love everything about something.

I spent pretty much the entire day waiting by the telephone to hear about a job. It's a temp assignment that I interviewed for. I had a first interview, a second interview, and now I'm waiting on a third interview. At the second interview the HR lady said she would either contact me Monday or Tuesday to have me come in for a third and final interview, and to wear sneakers because she was going to give me a tour of the premises. I am very excited about this assignment. It's a long-term temp assignment and provides a 68-hour work week (which means I will thus be making bank). And the hours are such that I can pursue acting classes and auditions with my mornings. The audition I went to about a week ago wont be contacting me until late August, if I get a call back at all, and if I'm working on this temp assignment I'll have to turn down a job offer if it's not a speaking role. Extra work is fine and all that but I plan on only doing it between jobs from now on. I'm tired of booking myself for work on a daily basis and it's not really providing opportunities for advancement. I want to start acting, I'm compelled to do it, and it simply cannot be helped.
Anyways. I hope I get this temp assignment tomorrow. I'm at the point where I can't even afford to do anything anymore.

Got an appointment for an interview and audition/reading for the following film this Sunday:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238303/
I'm not sure what I'm auditioning for, but I am auditioning for a speaking part. I wanted to audition for the part of the female news reporter (Katie), but according to the IMDB page that and what looks like most of the other major roles have already been cast. But hey, as long as I get to open my mouth and have words come out of it on camera, I'll be happy.
My friend Rick told me about it and that the auditions were being held here in Orange County and that it will be filming here as well, so I emailed the producer/director with my headshot and resume and I got myself an appointment. I was thrilled to see that David Lynch and Deepak Chopra are playing themselves in the film. The premise sounds promising.
This will be my first audition. I'm nervous and unprepared, but there's no turning back now. The important thing to remember when going into an audition is that they want to like me, they want to cast the parts and go home. And if someone wants to like you, you have to let them.

I've got a job orientation tomorrow for a new temp job...that will only be lasting two days. Really, why bother with an orientation at all? Anyways, the position is with Herbalife in their customer service department. My job will be handling customer service related inquiries and what not...in espanol.
My sister-in-law came over to my house today to give me a birthday present and then she started crying really fucking hard because I guess my brother wants to leave her and he's over it. I felt really bad for her and it was so unexpected and it made me feel so uncomfortable that I just started laughing really fucking hard. Great. Why do I do this? It's so...self destructive. Antways, I guess she thinks I'm an insensitive monster now, and perhaps I am.

I went to go visit Marnel earlier this week in Lake Elsinore..




As a favor, she had her boyfriend Tom take some headshots of me. This one is my favorite, and probably the one I will use until I get nicer ones:

Here's a new pic of Houdini:

Have I mentioned he really likes purses?

I had a nice 26th birthday. The strange thing is that, I feel different. I've never felt different on any birthday before this one, and I know it's all in my mind, but it doesn't change the fact that I felt different about myself this morning, and in a very good way.

My friend Marnel had her pro photographer boyfriend take some headshots for me, and I think they came out very nice, especially since they were a gift. I will probably post them here tomorrow, along with a new pic of Houdini. Now that I have the headshots I can start relentlessly spamming the top five talent agencies and their hundreds of agents, though I only have extra work on my resume thus far, I'll soon have some acting classes under my belt to brag about, and hey, you never know, someone may dig my headshot and call me in to do a reading in their office. Represent!

Hmm. Anyway. I feel like no one really updates their LJ anymore. What gives?

Houdini loves purses...


And wet towels...

And sitting on my window ledge..

And I like finding cool dresses in the back of my closet!

I worked as an extra on the "Iron Man 2" movie the past few days. I clocked 40 hours in three days! Tonight was my last day filming, I didn't think I would make it to the Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball, but I did. Somewhat disappointed. For one, I went directly after work so couldn't wear my costume. I was lucky to go at all because I was supposed to stay at work til almost 4am but then they took pity on us extras I guess, because they let us go home early. I was running all day! The scene, I can't say much, but I was wearing high heels and running "for my life" all day yesterday and today. I worked with Robert Downey Jr., Gweneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell, and Scarlett Johanssen. I missed Mickey Rourke by 2 days!

The Labyrinth Masquerade Ball was okay, at best. Its disappointing to realize that this event I've wanted to attend for the past ten years wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

I broke my juice fast on day 6. It was the fourth of July and my family was having a BBQ. The day began with me going strong. I had some watermelon juice for breakfast and then my carrot, red apple, and beet concoction for lunch. Then I began feeling nauseous, lethargic, and dizzy, so I had some broccoli and celery juice which made me feel better, as I suspected it would.
Then my family members came over and started barbecuing in the backyard and it smelled way good. My mom kept asking me if I wanted to eat every five minutes (the bane of my juicing existence) which was really starting to piss me off so I just went in my room and watched the Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci Fi channel.
My mom thought it right to pound on my bedroom door and advise me that dinner was served. I should have just ignored her but, I made the huge mistake of walking past the kitchen table anyway, just to see what everyone was eating. My mom and brother were like "eat some food", and everyone else gave me "go for it" glances and when I saw the steak and the shrimp shish-kabobs I just said fuck it. Then the moment I stuck the fork in my mouth my brother Jesse was like "GEEZ, you have NO discipline", and then my dad was like "aren't you supposed to be on a diet?" These were both good points that should have been brought to my attention BEFORE I broke my fast. As if that wasn't enough, I knew that I had just broken a promise that I made to myself.
The thing with juice fasting is that the body is supposed to take a break from digesting so that it can pool its resources together to work on other parts of the body. I know that I did some good for myself, because I could feel my body just beginning to function better. And I felt mentally sharper, to boot. I've done the master cleanser for the full ten days, and it wasn't even that hard. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm disappointed in myself. I had a goal and I didn't reach it. And so, tomorrow I begin again. Here's to my mind, body and spirit. Wish me luck on my juice journey.

Day 3 of my juice cleanse and I'm still going strong. I may need to get a new juice machine soon though, because my juicer is including a good deal of pulp in my drinks. It's not bugging me too much right now because it probably helps fill my stomach, and supposedly the pulp has all the fiber. My favorite concoction so far is 5 carrots + 1 red apple + 1 beet. It's surprisingly sweet and delicious. I also like jicama and strawberries. I tried to make a juice today that consisted of 2 tomatoes, 1/2 cucumber, 4 celery, and 1/4 lemon and it came out disgusting and bitter. My mom seemed to like it though.
I've been interviewing all day, looking for a steady job so that I can make some money while I go to school and get my Theatre Arts degree. I re-vamped my resume so it looks and sounds a lot nicer now. I have another interview tomorrow. I hope I can get hired somewhere soon, before the school semester starts so that I can plan my school schedule accordingly. I plan on doing more extra work, but mostly on the weekends, because I was doing it full-time for awhile and I still hadn't gotten a single SAG Voucher. I feel ready to move on to acting classes now, because I want to start auditioning for principle parts very very soon.
Yesterday my brothers got me a ticket for the upcoming Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball. I'm totally excited because I've been wanting to go since I was fifteen, and somehow eleven years flew by without me ever going. I need to make, create, or buy a costume and I feel totally lost. I know I want some wings. Wings are good. I think if I wear a nice dress with some wings and put fancy things in my hair and get a cool masquerade ball-esque face mask, I'll be good. My sister-in-law says she has some corsets that I can choose from and some other costume attire type stuff. Hmm. This is fun.

Spending some quality time with my computer, before my hard drive poops out. Computers make me feel so stupid.

I made it through two days of a leek broth fast..which was really horrible because leek broth tastes like crap, and additionally, I'm a person that needs variety in the things I consume. The "Magical Leek Broth Fast" is a fast that's supposed to be done over the weekend, Saturday-Sunday, drinking a cup of leek broth every 2-3 hours, and eating leeks with lemon juice and a drizzle of olive oil at meal times, if you're hungry. It was developed by Mireille Guiliano and I read about it in her book "French Women Don't Get Fat". I used the leek broth fast over the weekend (and survived it) so that I could ease into a 40-day juice fast. I lost about 3 pounds doing it, and I've noticed that my digestive tract is working a little bit better.
Today is my first day juicing, and I'm really enjoying it so far, but I guess that doesn't really say much. I'm not expecting to enjoy the entire process. I'm doing this to clean and heal my body and challenge myself. I started the day with 2 glasses of carrot + apple juice, and I still feel satisfied, and haven't felt hungry all day.
If you have any good juicer recipes, please share them.

Http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/Story?id=7880954&page=1

Wow. So there's this sixteen year old girl that's stuck in the body of a toddler because she has some sort of disease that prevents her from aging. That sucks. But if they can figure out how that works, maybe they can start tweaking our DNA so that we can always look the same age, until we grow inwardly old and develop dementia, and eventually die. I wouldn't mind looking 25 until I die. Hopefully they can handle that before I reach 32 because then I can still look hot.