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ashungirl7
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Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 4/16/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Anything and Everything
Expertise: Same as above
Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
Message: message me
AIM:  ashungirL7
Member Since:
4/11/2003
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| the good:
-brief periods of sunshine and warm weather in chicago
-feeling more and more at home in the windy city
-lunch at "fogo de chao" on Gernot's bday
-having the BEST conversations late at night in my car with the heat turned up
-enjoyable, hard-working, and dependable co-workers
-thinking and creating a plan for the future! shhh its a surprise
-the possibility of my sister going to law school here
-coming home to a spankin clean apartment ^_^
-retail therapy at nordstrom rack + sales
-just the right amount of salsa in a week to burn calories, relieve stress, and be social
-steeeevaaaayyy + costco
-Gernot's constant love and attention. =))))) <3 <3 <3
-america's next top model. no matter how many reality tv shows i
get hooked onto, this still overshadows them all. i have a
feeling that Britney is gonna be our winner this cycle. I'll bet
$20 on it.
the bad:
-the struggle between me and food continues
-staying up way too late and being GROUCHY at work
-sometimes the apt is just a leeeeeetle too small for 2 ppl [especially when 1 of them is high strung]
-using benedryl to help fall asleep
-getting older and not wanting to waste anymore time
the UGLY:
-me running on 3 hours of sleep.
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| Average Number of Vacation Days Around the World Per Year
Italy 42 days
France 37 days
Germany 35 days
Brazil 34 days
United Kingdom 28 days
Canada 26 days
Korea 25 days
Japan 25 days
U.S. 13 days
so sad. =(
a nation of workaholics.
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| Here's another round to the boos and bravos. =)
-bravo to be living in a place where things never get boring - day, night, weekends, holidays.
-boo to my snail-crawling metabolism at age 22. fabulous.
-bravo to the use of my new shuffle, who managed to evolve into the
size of a small box of matches while my back was turned. 
-boo to people that have an addiction to honking at others compulsively as a means to communicate anything on the road.
-bravo to a wonderful thanksgiving dinner, specially catered from dominck's
-bravo to finally grabbing control of this whole eating vs. working out vs salsa thingy
-boo to express with their tight rules on their $25 off coupon after spending $75.
-bravo to the salsa clubs that still inspire that love of dance in me!
-bravo to a awesome team at work that keep me getting up in the mornings to see their smiling faces.
-bravo to the great weather we've been having in chicago!!!
-bravo to find that after two months of disturbing toothaches, i
actually don't have any cavities. apparently i just need to floss
correctly. *whew*
-bravo to my excellent dental plan which covers just about everything.
-boo to the upcoming cold weather
-bravo to my DVR. how the heck did i ever live without it before? what are commercials?
-boo to shrinking closet space
-boo to having to work on black friday
-boo to a certain co-worker that demostrated a high degree of selfishness. pshh.
-BRAVO to happiness and stability. =) I heart you my lil thing.
So here's the Express story: Recently I went to buy a couple of
items for work and rang up a bill of over $75 just so I could get their
$25 coupon off for my next purchase from Nov 12-23rd. I kept
checking in every now and then, but there never seemed anything worth
buying. So on Dec 22nd, I figured I may as well use the coupon
since it's a free $25, right? I walk into the store and politely
ask the salesperson if I could maybe exchange my coupon for one that
expires later. She says no; I'm cool with it. I spend 25
minutes looking at the marked down section, since we all know that
Express not-on-sale is simply not worth buying. After I try a
couple of things on, I bring them up to the counter. The sales
lady tells me I cannot use the coupon on anything that is marked
down. I'm a little irritated, but I understand. So I put
everything back and look around to see if there's anything else I could
get. I come back after 10 minutes with a shirt that cost
$24.50. Sales lady tells me she cannot give that to me because it
HAS to be over $25 before tax. I'm more than a little
irritated. So I'm looking around and I'm trying to find SOMEthing
that is near $25. But everything I see is either 34.95 or
49.99. Express simply doesn't have anything that is "around"
$25. [Meanwhile, Gernot is sitting in a chair waiting for me to
finish so that we can run more errands] Finally, I look through
all the earrings they have, since that would be the easiest way to add
up to over $25. I settle on 3 of them, not even trying them on,
because by then I had spend over an HOUR trying to spend the friggin
free $25.
Anyways, I end up eventually returning 2 of the 3 earrings because they
looked like crap. Another 15 minutes of my life wasted. Oh
by the way, I don't even wear earrings anymore. SHEESH.
If I knew this was going to be such a hassle, I wouldn't have bothered to spend $75 to begin with for that coupon.
Lesson learned.
I would take the time to b*tch about my selfish co-worker, but I guess I can save that for another day.
Happy 4-day weekend! =)
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Ladies and gentlemen.... CIARA!!!!
Newton, Steevay, me, friend, and friend's cousin.
Concert venue.
Me and G at the Chicago river.
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It's getting COLD in hurrrr!!! Miss you guys. Will upload more pictures eventually. <3
Happy gobble gobble week! Gernot and I ordered a turkey dinner,
complete with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, a 12 lb turkey,
cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and 12 dinner rolls, JUST FOR US.
lol. we'll be eating turkey for weeeeks. 
We also finally joined a gym in which the salesmen gave us ONE HELLUVA
time trying to rip us off. Arghhh, after cars and insurance
salesmen, I think gym salesmen are up there as 10 top sneakiest
sellers. sheesh. and i should know since i work in a sales
center.
Off to bed..... nitey.
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