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random updates.

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:33:29 GMT

random things:

a_gina_a_day LJ is back! Check it out!

i might have to get my thyroid checked. my biomom has a hyper active one (speedy metabolizim) i might have a slow one, which would explain my inability to loose weight.

Does grapefruit juice really speed up metabolizim? i'm super hungry now that i started ferrociously drinking it. I read that you should drink it with meals to make it digest quicker. let's see some results.

i think that i'm getting a cold. i passed out watching the pens after game last night (SWEPT WOOT) woke up sneezing about 100 times in a row. Vitamin C and i will be hanging out as well as a potential shot of patrone. wooooo..... summer encourages my drinking!

it's over 75 degrees out! my shirt is sleeveless and i'm wearing flipflops outside of my office.

tonight i'm grubbin some wings n brews with rich, sara and anthony. i wanna play some playmaker stuff. yes! t is still getting unemployment cause somebody never called him back to work, probably cause of petty reasons. [big surprise!]

i parked .4 miles away from work. awesome. i love the walk, but now it's long enough that an ipod is nessesery. i'll park farther soon enough.

lunch was a chicken wrap from getgo, i'm down to 4$ in my bank account now. yes! thinking about changing banks... maybe?

im really really really happy in my relationship with anthony. so is he. we have so much fun and are attached at the hip - but it's not annoying. even if we weren't attached, it'd be ok. ahhh... almost at a year and a half now.

i'm so focused on north carolina. beach living. southern climate. surfing. more job opportunities. a beach wedding?? so much could come from this! of course the opportunity begins to arrise as i am ever so content with my life in the 'burgh.

i feel sicker....

GO PENS!

starstruck....

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:16:51 GMT

my boyfriend just met seth rogan. i am so jealous. he's filming right up the road for our new place! there's only a few people i'd be starstruckish with and he is one. seth is def on my top list of people to sit around drink and eat and BS with. why, he could just come over and hang out with some locals, him and kevin smith, right?

boo hoo hoo

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:59:09 GMT

i have a real cold, trying to take a bunch of vitamin c to get better with out antibiotics!
i will write again i swear. oh, i'm inbetween jobs too now. my last day was horrible, i was there 5 minutes overtime cause a certain boss didn't have her stuff done for me (evluation, etc) such an ass. a good example of the manager i DONT want to be.

xoxoxo

Merry Christmas Friends!

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:49:03 GMT

Merry Christmas my LJ friends :) Things here are very well.
Lots of gifts for everyone and lots of food to eat!
NO SNOW but a lot of wind.

xoxoxooxxo Gina and Tony

hair dontations

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:20:30 GMT

my best friend holly and i have been growing our hair out since 2005! it is SO time for a new do. We want to donate our locks together and get a sweet shoulder length doo. this would be a nice charitible thing to do & donate a ton of clothes to goodwill!

new laptop!

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:26:05 GMT

thanks to my job that is on my nerves, i have a new laptop, inspiron 1521. i would rather have a mac book, but this will have to do since it was 'free'. now i hope to keep up with this more. :D

my scattered update

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:24:29 GMT

since i was visiting the west coast this weekend, i thought that i'd blow it. I ate really good. the two girls i was with are also careful with what they eat, so it wasn't too bad, it was rather motivational!

the only bad meal [bad as in a million calories] we had was at Bubba Gump's shrimp in San Fran. We got so much fried food, it was kind of a reward :) it was SO GOOD. I don't want to see anything fried for a while now.

the walking all around the city was also a bonus, and something i got to REALLY start doing at home (walking 30 min +)

This week for lunch i had all salads, dinner was skimpy, a small piece of pizza one night and a bit of pasta the next. [portion control!!]

today for lunch will be panera bread. i'll try not to eat any bread cause it makes me SO tired in the afternoon. if i do it will be whole f*in wheat!! i can tell i slimmed down since i joined, just a tad, and i feel better. i love reading everything you girls have to say.

next post i'll state my real goals :)

keep it goin girls!

beat!

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:28:14 GMT

I'm still so beat from my trip this weekend. i'll be making a post with pictures when i get them, i left my camera at Frank Family's winery. A bit of over-tasting was had :D

back to pretending i'm not back yet XD

west coast bound!

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:58 GMT

i'm off to san francisco, leaving at 6 am EST tomorrow moring. This means I got to get up at 430!!!
i will be back with pictures and stories! xoxo

hard work

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:18:57 GMT

so the opportunity stands in front of me. he dug my cell phone recording, stating i do have a voice, and there is alot of power with it. he wants to hear me clearer. mp3 clear. ok, got to do this at moms house. or the first opportunity i have to record one. in the meantime, find a voice coach. from there, listen to tracks that he sends over, write down some words, write a melody. fucking whale em out. get ok'd. get vocals REALLY recorded (that means studio time). mix and blend. bing! a track is produced. i am an established and credible vocalist.

can i do all this? how much hard work and discipline is this gonna take? i'm fucking stubborn. i hope that i can stay super motivated. the only excitement i'm getting from people are those not too close with me. my prod, co worker and best friend. my mom doesn't think anything of it, and my boyfriend has been motionless about it. i mean he is glad i'm doing something finally, but not the excitement i would give him if he say, played drums for a band again.

i gotta give all my thanks to lara, who DROPPED my name! all she knew is that i love to sing and i love karaoke. i don't remember her every hearing me [lol] but i do remember her complimenting me.

this is NOT going to be easy with the fact i'm timid about letting 'go', singing in front of people (sober!) and being 110% confident. I guess this will be my 'made' story, as long as i don't cave in.

waiting....

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:24:20 GMT

so, i'm waiting for the producer to call me back. i was in about 2 hours of traffic this morning with my new ipod. i think the ipod kept me pretty calm! i sang a quip of don't speak. voice recordings on a cell phone are so fucking horrible. i hope he responds with something rather than... nothing.

i figure that i did my damned best for a cell phone recording, sang something i've sung for years, and had the balls to send it to a stranger. I can't be THAT bad if i get applauses at karaoke and called back to sing live with a rock band... can i?!

i'm going to san fransisco this weekend, nothing can really get me down now anyway!

do i have the balls?

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:57:41 GMT

yeaaa.... i just got a call from a local hiphop producer who has internationally released house tracks. what does he want with me? he got my name from a friend of mine who reccommended me as a vocalist. wow.... REALLY?? he needs someone raspy, poppy for some electro tracks.

are you shitting me?

so after our awesome conversation - i got to send him me singing somehow. there's no way i want to pull up the mp3 recording from the last band i tried to work with. but maybe i do? i have to face the music and hear myself someday. talk about being your worst critic.

i'm thinking about what to sing, what will be similar to what he wants. nothing but gwen fills my thoughts! orange county girl? twisted? bubble pop electric?

is this guy f'in with me!?

i asked one of my good buddies, who is a frequent dj/promoter, producer (i hate his music tho) - he says he IS credible, professional and really awesome. that's a good stamp of approval. i'm gonna record something too, probably all of the gwen songs above. god i'm so nervous cause my dream could be coming true-ish?

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:07:01 GMT

it looked like a big storm was going to swallow us up, but it dodged us? that has been happening too much in the burgh this year. not enough storms. anthony is hoping for a storm so he can be done with work for the day. (landscaper) he calls me here to find out the weather report every hour lol.

this guy i help out with admin stuff just handed me something to type, it's so many pages. my scanner won't read it :( here we go!

incase i foget

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:23:30 GMT

I can not stand WHISTLERS!!!!! it is so rude to stand around me and whistle. If no one is around, thats fine, but it is SO ANNOYING!(#*!($&!$^!^!$@

steal from me??

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:29 GMT

yesterDAY someone broke in to the apartment and stole my laptop, xbox and ps2. luckily, they were some little white boys who tried to sell something to the chick downstairs and she got a good look at them. they left all the important wires and cords. my laptop runs unbuntu. lol. so they couldnt even sell them, let alone use them.

then... they left this folder with papers from forbes tech school on my pita chair. thanks guys, the cops have those, and your paw prints are ALL OVER them :)

we feel violated that someone would come in to our home. i kinda had a feeling this would happen. luckily i have great insurance and we can replace that stuff with better stuff, but i feel icky that there were strangers in the place. i think we're getting a new lock today? I don't know. Out of all places, Rosedale, that is 95%+ white and low ass crime rate. now i am really moving out into the boonies.

pm BLAHS

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:12:54 GMT

i've got a serious case of the afternoon blahs. i think it is because i worked so hard this morning on many different things. i don't know what to do now, so i shopped online during work hours. I know i know *slaps wrist* bad girl! i'll tell about those purchases when they safely arrive.

i'm sooooo freaking stoked about anthony's new job. he is actually bringing home the bread/ bacon now. he loves it all. i can sit back and relax. it wasn't that i was paying for him and i all the time, but i was a little streched. it was worth it. he bought me a betty page poster for my bedroom wall and 'the story of gwen stefani' book. i can't read it, i've just looked at the pictures.

Well, it is about that time, I'm out of HERE!

soups n soups!

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:41:55 GMT

mmm my could-someday-be-mother-in-law makes the BOMBEST chicken noodle soup! She made it on sunday (such a fall feeling day) and we ran right over (her son and i). We had a huge bowl, and apple pie with cinnimmon ice cream for dessert. MMMMM!! What a way to welcome fall. I"m eating a bowl at my desk now. I wish i could post it so you all could try it!! With ever bite i'm sure that i love my boyfriend whole heartedly!

moving joys

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:29:48 GMT

i am about to embark on my second round of donut & coffee at 11:30 am wednesday. see the advantages of not sharing the donuts you bring into the office?

the clusterf*ck is almost over.