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Ouch…

I have a really bad headache. I’ve had it for about three days. I used to get this same headache when I got really stressed out or depressed. I’m not depressed right now, I really think it’s just stress. Cassidy’s immunization, school, job hunting, money being really tight, missing my mom and Cameron and Gene… I thought last night that it could possibly be that my eyes are needing to be checked again and that my contacts could be what’s making my head hurt but I have not put them in at all today and it’s still hurting. It’s keeping me awake at night and it’s making me irritable and it SUCKS!

So I lied, the sun is going down and there are no new hair pics. DEAL!

I need to renew my domain in the next 90 days. annastacy.com is a bit outdated now so I’m needing a new domain name. I don’t want to use annareid.com as I’d rather have some snazzy name. The problem, of course, is that every domain worth having is taken so I am now faced with the task of finding one. Of course I want something that in some way describes me or something important to me but I swear as soon as you try to think of something like that your mind goes blank and nothing comes to you…

Here are some crappy web cam shots of the new haircut. I’ll get some in better light tomorrow. But for now, here ya go…

We went to Bakersfield Saturday morning. We took the ‘back roads’ with the top down and missed all the holiday traffic and had a fun time. The back roads take you down Highway 25 on a long stretch of road with beautiful rolling hills, nice curvy roads and not a car in sight. Man was it hot when we got there though.

The first thing we did was meet Dan and Pedro at Amigo’s for food. It was nice to see some of the old faces again. Dan seems happy and content. Pedro seemed a little off his game, like he was lost is thought somewhere. He just didn’t seem to be his normal playfull self. *shrug* We spent some time with my mom after that and just hung out at her house for the evening and partook in the joys of Cold Stone.

The next morning my mom and I went and go get our hair cut. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow. I got mine WAY layered. To just under my chin length in the front but still quite long and layered in the back. I *really* like it because I curled it this morning in about 20 minutes and it still looks cute and my head feels about 20 pounds lighter.

THEN!!!!! We went and got Cassidy!!! I missed her SOOOOO much and I can’t even tell you how good it felt to fall asleep last night knowing that she would be here when I woke up. We left Bakersfield not long after getting her. We took her to see my mom a little then drove back to San Jose and swam. 🙂 I swear she grew 5 inches in the two weeks that I didn’t have her. But she’s here now and all seems to be right in the world.

There’s a new layout a brewin’.. Should be up by later today.

I have been turning more and more girly lately. When we went shopping last weekend I was passing tables of jeans and going to look at dresses. That is VERY strange for me. I almost feel silly looking at dresses because I’ve never really done that before. I’ve never bought a dress just to buy one. I’ve always gone looking for them because of some occasion or another and grumped the entire time I had to try them on. And the pink! I want to buy eveything pink.

So anyway, the new layout will reflect that.

I’m addicted to Indian Food… and Ben.

I had an awsome weekend.

Saturday AM – Went for my first Bimmer drive with Ben. I had not fully expected what I got. I knew it would be some pretty agressive driving up some pretty hairy roads but I didn’t think it would be ANYTHING like it was. These roads were REALLY trying. And I had NO idea that Ben’s car could take them so well nor that Ben could DRIVE them so well. I never knew what real agressive driving was all about. I do now. I actually got queasy from the hard pull around turn after turn after turn. Great fun but next time I’ll be sure to start the mroning with a Dramimine. 😉

Saturday Afternoon – We spent the day with Chris, Brandon, Heather, Ethan and Brooklynn at the Monterey Aquarium. We had an great time and I loved getting to see the excited faces Brooklynn made at the FISHIES!!!!! I really can’t wait for Cassidy to get to see it.

Saturday Evening – We went to eat at The Tied House. It’s a restaurant/pub/brewery with AWSOME food, a great atmosphere and desert to die for. It was my first time there but I guarantee you it will not be my last. San Jose food ROCKS!!!

Sunday – We spent about 5 hours at the Great Mall with Chris and the kids for back to school shopping. Ben got a really nice shirt like 75% off at Tommy. I *really* wanted to get a bathing suit (marked down from $100 to $20) but I hate having Ben pay for stuff especially when I have no income coming in. I just can’t justify that. The good thing is that that’s the kind of prices they have there all the time. It’s a HUGE (200+) stores that are all outlets so I’ve never NOT seen awsome deals there. I’m sure that as soon as I have a job, much time will be spent shopping there since it’s only about 5 minutes away.

Sunday Evening – The weekend had a perfect finish with dinner at my FAVORITE San Jose eatery… Pasand. That place is just the greatest find since I’ve been here.

And so that leads to – I miss Cassidy like crazy. I feel like I’m counting the hours till I go pick her back up. If I hadn’t promised Troy the time, I’d be in the car on the way there to get her right now. I miss her laugh, and her smile, and her questions, and readinthat they need to take better care of their stuff…like Rebecca. I can’t stand it when a CD jewel case is broken, let alone when the fucking wrong CD is in the wrong case, let alone when the whole CD collection is in the wr

Friday Five..

1. When was the last time you laughed?
At lunch today. How could I *not* laugh at all the geeks!! 😉

2. Who was the last person you had an argument with?
Ben. And hopefully it will be a long time before we have another one.

3. Who was the last person you emailed?
I’ve emailed out a few resume’s to random people today.

4. When was the last time you bathed?
Yesterday around noon. Need to get in the shower soon.

5. What was the last thing you ate?
Just got back from Cambodian food at Chez Sovan with Sil, Dave and Ben. It was the first time I’d had Cambodian food and it was YUMMYFUL!

*deep breath* This is going to be quite long… (Just a warning)

UPDATES!!!

San Jose: It’s a breezy 83 outside. It’s… awsome. I got my car up here and am slowly taking little trips out to run errands and learn my way around. I haven’t gotten lost… yet. Give me time. 🙂

Cassidy: I was about to go pick her up Sunday when Ben and I talked about letting her stay with Troy for the last two weeks before school starts. I told him that since I’m living in San Jose I intend to make sure that he gets to see her and keep a realtionship with her and it’s important to me that he knows that I’m serious when I say that. It will also be good for Cassidy to spend some time with him before school starts and her schedule gets hectic.

Work: I sent out about 414,489,652,584 resumes Monday and I got a call back from a contract agency yesterday about a job at Oracle! ORACLE! SWEET! It’s just an entry level position doing HTML and CSS work. Cake work really, but I can get my foot in the door that way. I’d LOVE to get to work at a place like that and meet new people, provide a good work ethic and then try to work my way up to a job that I could really sink my teeth into. Nothing is set in stone yet but I have my fingers crossed!!

Ben: Those of you who know me well know that has been going on on this front lately. I don’t want to go into too much detail in my public blog and will write more about it for those of you lucky enough to have access to the private blog.

General: We ate dinner at Nvidia last night since Ben can eat for free and I eat VERY cheap. For two burgers and two orders of fries and drinks for both of us last night was $4.75!! In an effort to save money we are going to be eating there as much as possible for awhile. Later today I want to do a little map rundown of where we are and where the things around us are so I don’t have to explain it to everybody over and over and over and over again.

Ben vs. Anna gaming showdown:
Ben – 0
Anna – 1 (UT2003!)
*special thanks to Nvidia for giving Ben the job of his dreams and giving me the oportunity to come and shamelessly use their equipement.

It’s been a long long long long day and I am tired tired tired. I’ve been slacking on the Friday Five. I’ll do it later after I’ve gotten about 10 hours of sleep.

Having a good time here but I miss Ben like crazy and I’m ready to be back home and in his arms… Soon.

G’night all.

*passes out from exhaustion*