i got called back to work by usairways, and i accepted. so i'm going away for training this sunday through the 14th. and then starting the 15th, i'm back to being a flight attendant.

i haven't separated from roswell yet. we're going to try me working part time for a while. we'll see how it goes. hopefully, usairways won't be calling me much since i'm at the bottom of the seniority list and i'll be collecting a fat paycheck, while working for here.

i don't want to leave roswell, but the offer from usairways was too good to pass up. plus, i would have lost all of my flight privileges had i passed on this recall. the nice thing is, is that i'm based in philly, so most of our international flying goes out of there and i'm hoping to get me some of that. i'm looking forward to 36 hour layovers in zurich, amsterdam, shannon, london, paris, greece, belgium, stockholm....etc.



plus we've just put in to fly into beijing. i can't wait to work that 18 hour flight!

i'm starting practicing now....coffee....tea....me?

A Chilean mayor plans to give out free Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their "quality of life" four times a month, according to media reports.

"This has to do with quality of life and it's done responsibly. It's not just like handing out candy at the corner," Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily.

He said any man 60 years and older who wants it can have up to four Viagra pills a month after undergoing a thorough medical exam to avoid potentially harmful side effects of the drug Sildenafil.

"We'll give out four, 50 milligram pills, in other words, for four sexual relationships per month," Navarrete said, adding that the program would have a starting cost of about 20,000 dollars.

The mayor said the idea for his unprecedented move came from hearing older men in his town complain about not getting enough sex.

He did have some advice, however, for the Viagra seekers: "Sildenafil doesn't get you going without direct stimulation."



Apparently, next month, they're planning on giving out free women, to provide the needed direct stimulation. However they are only giving away one woman per month per man, which will undoubtedly result in a shortfall of three stimulation encounters per month since studies show that three out of tour times, Chilean women develop headaches when presented with the opportunity to have sex. Fortunately, plans are underway to speed up the cloning process of sheep and goats intended to fill the stimulation deficit. As expensive and time consuming as the cloning process appears to be, it still provides a substantial cost reduction compared to the exorbitant amount of money the government must pay to the girlfriends and wives of Chilean male citizens in order to provide the direct stimulation services required for the four sexual relationships per month **

• Ok fine, I made this part up.

i just read that a woman in austria was imprisoned in a cellar dungeon by her father for 24 years, during which she gave birth to 7 of her father's children!

holy shit, talk about the most horrid thing i've ever heard of. he had her locked in a secret dungeon, accessible by a secret door which opened by a code. for 24 years they never saw sunlight, never left the rooms. one child died shortly after child birth, and the father burned it. the children learned how to speak, but never received any education. the kids, the oldest being 20, have never, EVER seen the outside world, never seen sunlight, trees, flowers, never saw any other people. they were born and raised in total captivity.

this is the most disturbing thing i've ever read.

this fucker needs to be skinned alive and showered in acid.

this is what the devil looks like. wait...the picture upload thingy is gone...

has anyone see the tailer fo this movie? it looks so fucking sweet! seriously, this is on my MUST SEE THIS SUMMER list. angelina looks so hot and james mcavoy is my ultimate dream man. i can't wait for this movie to come out.

for those of you who have been trying to get a hold of me....i finally got a new phone. i could not stand my ppc 6700 anymore. it didn't hold a charge anymore, even though i just got a replacement phone a few months ago, it was so bulky and ugly and slow that i felt like i was using a cell phone from 1995. also, i was ready for windows mobile 6.0. it just seems like 5.0 was so outdated and old. i heard that the upgrades they added to it were pretty nice.

i wanted a new phone for a while now, but i was locked into a contract with sprint until october. i did not know how i was going to get through the summer without a phone, because i refused to use my phone anymore. it's been laying at the bottom of my purse, turned off, for months now. so i went to sprint to see how much a new phone would cost me.

apparently i was only able to get a $75 discount, and had to wait for a $150 discount come august. so, unfortunately, if i wanted a smart phone, i would have to pay full price which was around $500 - $75. um...no.

if i was going to pay $500 for a phone, i might as well get an iphone. but i couldn't even do that, because i was still locked into that contract, and i was not about to pay sprint even more of my hard earned cash so that they'd release me. so i went up to the customer service agent and asked if there was anything they could do for me.

no. they couldn't.

they did say that if i called customer service, maybe they could do something for me, but there was nothing they could do for me in the store.

ok, fine.

i called customer service and told them that i've been a sprint customer for the past 8 years. i have 4 lines with them, and have never, ever paid a bill late. i explained how much i hated my present phone, and how i needed a new phone now, because i was not able to use my piece of shit phone anymore. (you turn it on, it dies after an hour or two) (the same thing happened with my other ppc 6700, which is why i had it replaced) i was not about to go through the hassle of having it repaired/replaced again. this phone was done. i was done with this phone. i didn't want to touch or look at it anymore. i was prepared to go phoneless until my contract ran out if it meant having to deal with this craptastic piece of junk.

but i also said, that if i had to wait unitl august to get the new customer pricing, i would just wait out the duration of my contract and go over to AT&T and buy an iphone. i said that if they could not do anything for me, a loyal customer that has spent a shit load of money every month for the past 8 years, then i was no longer going to be a customer, and i would wait until all the contracts on all 4 of my lines expired and i would no longer do business with them. i said that i was really not trying to be a bitch (and i swear (e:fellyconnelly) i wasn't) and i wasn't bluffing. i was just being honest. i gave them a choice of either giving me the new customer pricing on a new phone early, or having me move to another carrier.

so the girl i was on the phone with, came up with an offer, saying that she could not give me new customer pricing on a phone, but she would give me a $50 credit on all 4 lines, if i extended the contract for an additional 2 years on those lines.

i was like "yeah, riiiiight, GOOD ONE! but NO THANKS"

so i said no deal and was ready to hang up, and the chick transfered me to the cancellation department, saying maybe they could do something for me.

so the woman in the cancellation department said she was the customer retention specialist, or something like that and said that she was told that i was thinking about leaving sprint. i told her that yes, i was going to let my contract expire and would get an iphone, because i wanted a new phone now and since i couldn't get a deal with sprint, i would take my business elsewhere.

so without any further discussion or deal pleading, she said she'd be happy to offer me the new customer pricing on any phone i wanted. so i told her that i was thinking about the HTC Touch, and within about 5 minutes, it was all done and over with. i should be getting my new phone on tuesday. it costs $250, which is about $250 less than what they wanted me to pay.

i am super stoked. now i will have a new, sweet phone, that is kind of, sort of like the iphone, AND i don't have to wait until august to get it!

here is a pic of what it looks like.





here is their website


here are some quick specs

Key Features
+ TouchFLO� screen technology
+ Windows Mobile� 6 Professional
+ Direct Push Outlook� email
+ Compact at H: 99.9mm, W: 58mm,
D: 13.9mm and lightweight at only
+ Tri-band GSM with GPRS/EDGE
+ 2.0 mega-pixel camera
+ Stereo Bluetooth� 2.0 and Wi-Fi
+ HTC ExtUSB� cable for PC

i'm excited that this has the option for stereo bluetooth headphones. my old phone did not, and it sucked.

on the con side, this doesn't have a qwerty keyboard, but rather a touch screen one like the iphone, that isn't as user friendly as the iphone's.

Oh my god, this is out of hand, adorable. I can't take it!

paul, even you can't say that is not the cutest thing you've ever seen, right?

Has anyone seen this will ferrell video with the baby? no? omg, it's soooooo funny!

i went to help marvin pick out a new iMac yesterday and he got the top of the line model, with 2 gigs of ram and 2.8 processor and the price with apple care and tax and other crap was damn near 3000 dollars. but then he turns around and asks "do you want anything?" i was like...um...well...an ipod?

and so he bought me an ipod! out of no where, for no reason. i almost feel as if i should return the favor with a favor???? hee hee.

he's so super sweet though. i love you marcinek!

but the ipod won't work because i have 10.3 not 10.5 installed on my computer.

so my question is, can install leopard on my computer from his back up cd that comes with the computer?

I found this super fun website that does a really good job of transforming your face into different ages, ethnicities and art styles.



Just upload a face shot. I used this one of (e:ladycroft) and I the day of our Amazing Race audition taping.



My favorite is the baby. Faben was on the floor laughing hilariously.

This is me as a baby




This is me in 30 years



This is me on testosterone (doesn't look much different than i do now)



The Afto-Carribean me



East Asian me



West Asian me



Mucha inspired me



Modigliani me



Botticielli me



Anime me



Drunk me (and apparently fat me)



Cave woman/Half Chimp me

we went to dinner at the new restaurant that some nba guy, leonard stokes, opened up. since this was a last minute decision, we couldn't get reservations at my fav restaurant, hutch's until 10, so we had to settle for this place instead.

it was rather disappointing. firstly, the wait from the time we sat down, until the waiter came to introduce himself, was unacceptable. seriously, we sat there for about 15 minutes, without a wine list, picking our noses, for what seemed like eons.

second, the tables were made of plywood or something, so they felt wobbly and weird. it felt as if the thing was going to break in half if you leaned on it too hard.

third, there were no candles on any of the tables. first of all, the restaurant is very dimly lit so in order to see your menu, you definitely needed some additional lighting, plus it was FUCKING VALENTINES DAY! you are supposed to have a romantic dinner at a romantic restaurant. how do you have an upscale restaurant with no fucking candles on any of the tables on valentines day!? i asked the waiter about the missing candles and he said that because they added additional tables to accommodate the big crowd they were anticipating for valentines day, they realized that they didn’t have enough candles for all of the tables, so they decided to scrap them all and not put ANY out on ANY of the tables. being as picky as i am, i said that i absolutely could not eat dinner here if there was no candle on my table. i felt as if i was eating in some back alley restaurant that couldn't afford a simple tea light candle. i mean seriously, rite aid is right across the street. if you morons ran out of candles, have someone run there and buy some. it doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. and if you're too fucking cheap to do that, then you do not belong in the restaurant business.

fourth, the menu was a special limited valentines day menu. that sucked. if i'm shelling out (well, not me, but if someone is shelling out) a ton of money for a nice dinner, i expect to have the normal selection of the shit you usually have on your dinner menu, instead of some cheap, shortened, menu that has about a third of the normal entree choices of the dinner menu.

fifth, the entrees were waaaaaay over priced. the amount of money they were charging for the quality of the food was ridiculous. the appetizer was good, and the crème' brulee was good, but the filet and lobster were too expensive. i mean, $45 for a lobster dinner with, what seemed like instant mashed potatoes and plain green beans was just embarrassing.

on the plus side, our waiter was very, very nice and accommodating and he was so terribly cute that i wished i could have sucked face with him in the bathroom. i mean, this guy was hot. my date was not happy. however, my date seemed to forget that a couple of nights prior, he was all hot and bothered by the waitress at mother's and was drooling all over her. so short our selective memories are.

anyway, because he was so nice, and cute, i convinced my date to give him an decent tip. although he did that pretty reluctantly. i must say that had i been paying for this dinner, i would be in a great depression right about now. i don't mind spending money on food, but i hate spending money on bad food or bad service when i know that there are tons of other great restaurants in buffalo that deserve my business instead. i am very thankful however, for the wonderful company i had and the generosity of my date, regardless of the crappy, overpriced food. i still had a great night.

all in all, he spent entirely too much money on a below average meal. we had 2 bottles of wine, one appetizer, two entrees (one lobster tail, one filet and crab legs) and one dessert. with a generous tip, the underwhelming meal was a grand total of $270 bucks.

that's like an ipod or an apple tv, or a smart phone, isn't it? i wish i could shit all of that out and ask for the money back. i've never felt so cheated.