A Little About Me

Hey, Everyone!

For the past few days, I've been spamming everyone I know with the Champions of Champions Elite stuff. I can't help it. I'm very excited about this job!

Anyway, those of you who have Friended me on Facebook know that I promised to make an entry about what I've been up to personally.

Saturday the 2nd, I went to the Montrose Oktoberfest and supported my dojo as they did their yearly demonstration. I was mostly there to help Master Dannon film the demo so that he could edit it and turn it into his YouTube debut. That hasn't happened yet, but here's a picture of him showing off his good balance that you can look at in the meantime:
The prices at the Oktoberfest were outrageous this year, they only blocked off half the street, and there wasn't a whole lot going on... It figures. It was Ramiro and Ray's first time ever going to it. That was pretty much a gauruntee that it was going to be lame. It seems to be one of those unwritten "laws" of life that whenever you want to show a friend something really cool (an event/show/game/band) and they say "It's my first time experiencing this," it ends up being really lame. :\ So, we didn't really get to do anything there (again, the prices!!!), but we did get to play Scott Pilgrim VS. The World: The Game on Ray's PS3. We played far into the night and got alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the endings.

Sunday the 3rd, I was in the ER. Olive View again. I ended up cutting/puncturing my right thigh with a pair of scissors. I was doing something stupid. Anyway, a bunch of blood & fat came out and I had to get stitches. (I'm purposely not saying too many details because a few people I've told became physically ill just from hearing about it). I was walking around on crutches for a couple days because whenever I tried to put my full weight on my right leg (incredibly painful!!), the muscle would flex and I'd start bleeding all over again.

I popped a stitch on Monday (my first full day at my new job!) but we were warned that might happen and we had an "emergency kit" to patch me back up again. Since then, it oozed a little yesterday as I was getting off work, but it's healing nicely. Today, everything was as it should be. No blood. Substantially less pain. I'm going to be fine. Don't worry. <3

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd... Work is really really awesome. I absolutely love it.

Check this out. I made it today: http://youtube.com/user/COCEliteOfficial



I didn't make the videos. I just made the channel. Just a little something extra I ended up doing. Like I mentioned before, my actual job is as an in-house writer. Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly what I do because I'm under contract not to. Hope you understand :3

Our kids (the cats: Robert, Ziggy, and Ringo) are all doing well. We fixed the cat door so they can come in and out as they please (it was broken before and they could only go out, but had to scream at us when they wanted back in). They've been staying in a lot in this SUDDENLY RAINY weather (it's hard to believe that it was 113 last week!!--what happened?!).

Oh, and today (Oct. 6) marks Ramiro and my third year of being a couple. :) <3

Guess that's about it for now.

Until next time...

--Lauren*
http://littlezotz.webs.com

Yard Work & Other Things

Hey, Everyone!

I'm back. :)

Things have been going really well for me lately. KNOCK WOOD.

I've gotten several writing assignments done lately and I seem to be getting noticed more and more. Hopefully I'll have some "big" news for you soon, but we'll see. Cross fingers!

In other news, I've been helping my parents a lot with their yard work lately. You know, raking leaves, trimming back overgrown plants; stuff like that. Sometimes Ramiro comes too, but today he stayed home to work on other things. Which left me to tackle the left side of their house on my own. Here's a "Before" picture of that:See all those leaves on the ground? All that needed to go. You can sort of see that they have some fancy stepping stones on the ground on that side of the house, but they had been completely buried. I also needed to hack back a lot of overgrowth, particularly their bougainvillea. Did you know that bougainvillea plants have lots and lots of thorns? They totally do! My arms got torn to shreds. haha. I was actually inside applying Bactine when I got a phone call from a potential employer.

You'll notice that I have no "After" picture of the left side of their house. Funny/Sad story. I actually had to stop halfway through because my parents' next door neighbour (a very senile old man) came up to me and accused me of stealing his "piles." He was very very confused. He thought that the piles of yard waste I had made and was picking up and putting into the green waste barrel were his and that I was taking them from him. :( He really needs to be in a home. I feel so bad for him. He used to be a very nice man (when I was a child growing up there), but now he didn't even seem to know who I was. This same old man sometimes steals the decorative rocks from my parents yard and puts them in a pile in front of his house. Anyway, my picking up the leaves agitated him so much, I stopped halfway through. I even left one pile there for him to look at. He seemed so attached to it. I'm going to finish the job next week.

My mom used to work at an Old Folk's Home. She said that the senile patients got a lot worse in the hot weather. If something like this happens to you--if an elderly person dotters up to you and is horribly confused--please, just be patient with them. They're not doing it on purpose to annoy you or to be mean to you. Just stay calm, and try to be as nice as you can.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... What else...

Ramiro and I found this in the corn field in our back yard:
I thought since a few of you have been writing about all the UFO stuff that's been in the news the past few days, you'd get a kick out of that. It's an alien!

In other news, I'm going to be going to the Montrose Oktoberfest on Saturday. I've been asked to man the camera while my pals at the dojo do their yearly demonstration. :)

Ramiro's fine. He's been working on a new comic called Dollworld. The cats are doing pretty well too. Ringo (the old man) has been cranky in the heat, but we've been doing our best to keep them all comfortable.

I'll probably be making an update again pretty soon.

Until then...

--Lauren*
http://littlezotz.webs.com

EDIT: I have a big job interview tomorrow. Wish me luck, Everyone!! <3