Ohh, it's been a long time.

Anyways. Things are finally good. I'm happy.

I've moved to Lake Forest (just south of Irvine), and I have an apartment all to myself. At first, I thought I would have some issues with it (seeing that I'm a total chicken sh*t and get bored easily). But things aren't nearly as bad as I had thought they'd be. I am, deep down at the core, a scaredy cat. But since I've moved into a much nicer community, there aren't any scary noises or things that go bump in the night. At the very worst, someone will go over the speed bump outside too fast in the middle of the night and it'll go *thump thump*. Nothing I can't handle. As for being bored, I've started reading again. No need to waste that English Lit degree, right? Like everyone and their uncle, I've read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Loved it. I've also purchased Confessions of a Shopaholic, as well as Digital Fortress. Two totally different books, but they both peak my interest.

I'm in a relationship. I'm happy  . One thing that gets on my last damn nerve though.... if you're at someone else's house, close the drawers after you're done with them. I bought you the contact solution and case, put them away when you're done using them. That's all I have to say about that. 

I am a happy camper though. Now I'm going to bed so I can be cheery and refreshed for another week at work. *muah*

Ohhh, as for those I haven't spokent to since the surgery... things went fine. I was out of the hospital in three days, took 6 weeks off to recover and went totally stir crazy in my house. It was a gigantic tumor, and now it's gone. I have check ups every three months, and things look good. Bueno. That's all!

Alrighty, back to Xanga. So here's what you've missed.

****Warning: This xanga entry is not for the faint of heart****

Turns out that I have a pretty big cyst/tumor thing on my left ovary (boys, if you can't handle this, you might want to close this page now). At the time of the ultrasound, it was 15x15x16cm. Now, 15.5cm is roughly 6 inches, so I basically have a Nerf soccerball below in my stomach, resting on my poor bladder. Honest to God, I don't know how this thing grew in there without me noticing. I knew I was gaining weight because my pants weren't fitting right and there was a bump. It wasn't my period, I wasn't pregnant, and I wasn't really eating more than usual. So finally, one night the bump started to hurt. I went to the emergency room and they did some tests. 

Fast forward two days and many radiology/ob/gyn appointments later. They tell me I have a large mass attached to my left ovary and that they will have to operate. They will make an incision below my belly button about 16cm long *I don't actually know if I'm even that big* and pull out the tumor, my ovary and my tube. ='(    The surgery will be next Friday, the 26th. I'm pretty scared, but being scared never really made anything better, right? So I have to try and stay positive, especially for my Mom. She's probably having a harder time with this than I am.

Before this, the most intense surgery I've had was getting my three wisdom teeth removed. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. They said that I have to stay in the hospital for 2-3 days and that I will be out of work for 4-6 weeks. So if anyone has any good books, dvds or gameboy advanced games they'd like to recommend, please do so. It looks like I'll have a lot of spare time on my hands. 

What am I doing?

Nothing.

That's right folks.... It's just past 11am on Thursday and all I can think of is when that clock on my computer turns to 5:30. So in the meantime, I'll give ya'll a little lesson on Lana. Like to hear it? Here it goes...

After I graduated from UCSB, I sat on my ass. My mom made me get a j-o-b. I went to a temp agency, and they stuck me at Countrywide Home Loans. Yups, so with my English Lit and Sociology degrees, I was a photocopying, excel spreadsheet designing ass clown. After about a month or two of that, I got "promoted" to Production Assistant. Now I was a data entry ass clown. I eventually got hired after my contract was over with the temp agency. So, after another few months of that, I got "promoted" again to being a doc drawer. Any mortgage people out there know what the hell I'm talking about? Mary, you better know this. Then, TADAAA, they made me a funder. That's right. They gave me the power to mess up loans and lose houses for people. But I tried to avoid that... Anyways, as a funder you get to deal with broker ass clowns (mean people) and escrow ass clowns (stupid people) yelling at you. So, I did that for a while and in the mean time, I moved out to Anaheim. Fun times.

Then, I left Countrywide. I got another offer from Option One, a subsidiary of H&R Block. I basically took it for the pay increase and the opportunity to work with my old funding manager who left Countrywide a few months before I left. They give me more money, a much longer commute and absolutely no excitement. At least with my old job, we were always so busy running around, on the phone, getting things signed off, that the days went by relatively quickly. Now, I sit on my ass (which is getting fatter each day) and play on xanga, friendster and everyone's connected. My real life has ended and my virtual life has begun. I mean seriously, how many times does a person need to check their hotmail account during a work day? At least 15 if you have nothing to do like me. But at least I know I have the option of checking out web sites with "barely legal teens" or learn how to increase my boyfriend's penis size. (I'm just kidding by the way, I always delete those.) So every day, I sit in traffic, run up the stairs to my office, power up, get breakfast from the cafe downstairs, and sit in front of the computer trying to look busy even though all I'm doing is updating my xanga entries. There are hints of the movie Office Space creeping into my life, and that's upsetting. To quote Peter, "Since I started working, every single day has been worse than the day before, so that every day you see me is the worst day of my life.''

So I'm off... It's time to check my hotmail again.

Ahhh, you knew it was coming... check out this funny little site.

http://dev.projek7.com/projekx/skunkworks/hosted/fun/

Look familiar?   :)

My List of Things That Bother Me ::The hate grows exponentially every day::

*In no particular order*

"Bennifer," Henna tattoes, the price of cd's, reality shows, saturated fat, traffic, commercials for League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Britney, Levi's discontinuing 517's, being poor, my daily commute, paying bills, Beyonce, my job, gum losing flavor too fast, paying for beer, people who talk/chew with their mouths open, the fact that they don't make Crunch Tater chips anymore, lines, rude cashiers, rude anybody, MTV, MTV2, fatties wearing size 3 pants, too many nacho chips, never enough nacho cheese, ants in my cubicle.