Current mood:	bouncy
Current music:	Ladytron - "Nothing to Hide"

"i always get a little tear-eyed when people say nice things about me."
so i forgot to mention my performance review. it went really well. i was a little worried like i said because everyone has been really grumpy lately and i've been pushing the limits of my wardrobe requirements with colorful puma shoes and matching army/navy & newbury comic belts with skulls on them. hehe. thankfully she had nothing but praise for me. she loves the new website and all of our clients love it and they're all saying great things about it and me. i always get a little tear-eyed when people say nice things about me. it's strange and every year she reviews me i get teary-eyed as does she. haha. the one thing she mentioned as "something to work on" was to be more flexible. when i asked what that means or for examples she couldn't think of anything. lol. she said it's not even a big deal but i guess everyone needs something to strive for. she gave me a 6-1/2% raise which is retroactive from january 1st. yay! the extra check couldn't come at a better time since i had to put a down payment on the big-gay cruise last week.

last night i went to the gym with marc to help him get all pumped up so he won't crush on me any more and some other hot guy will enjoy the fruits of my labor so to speak. his best friend victor crashed our workout because he wanted tips too. it was really hilarious because they are both brazilian and sometimes there is a huge language barrier. when i first took him to the gym with me on saturday i explained the concept of lifting heavier weights less to get more pumped as opposed to lifting a lighter weight a lot more, which would only tone up his already toned body. i said try to lift as much as you can 7 times instead of 10-12 like he's been doing. so when victor came and was doing 15 rep sets, marc was all, "you're only supposed to do 7!" and victor was like, "but i can do more. why?" and he was all, "gary said only do 7!" hahaha. but then i explained to victor he should lift as much weight as he could 7 times, if he can lift it more than 7 times he should increase the weight. marc piped in that he's been wasting all this time just lifting 7, even though he could lift more because he thought it was the 7 part that was important and didn't understand the weight part. hee. ok well it was cute to me that he would just do what i told him, not understanding the concept like it was some kind of magic that would make him big. lol. i giggled so in revenge he said he was going to use the larger version of the photo in my live journal icon as his wallpaper for his myspace profile. *rolls eyes*

so throughout the workout they kept talking to/yelling at each other in portuguese and it was driving me crazy because i know they were talking about me at some points. i kept saying "speaka-english"! at any rate, they kept making me laugh and victor is so funny. he was a huge distraction to marc who is trying to take this bodybuilding thing seriously. at one point, we got on a machine with a lap belt and victor and i had the belt on the same setting yet marc couldn't get the belt to close so victor was calling him fat, saying he "must have an extra rib or something". in his defense marc is sooooo tiny i'm not sure why the belt wouldn't fit. haha. but it was funny watching him struggle to pull the belt on. lol. i'm not sure how but marc only weighs 132 pounds and i weight 142 pounds and i'm 2 inches taller but marc looks so much tinier than me. i told him he probably has a big head/brain or something. he said that was probably it, then he went on to say that in brazil they make fun of the portuguese for being stupid. so apparently my brain isn't big enough. i said i could still beat him up. end of conversation. hee. so ya, all we did was laugh and goof off so it was taking forever. i was 20 minutes into the time i was supposed to be a joel's house before i realized how late i was so i bolted out of there.

joel and i ff-ed through days of our lives (yawn) and american idol (down with taylor, paris and katherine). we watched the office (pam and jim = les sigh) and family guy (lois is a bigot, who knew?) after that. joel didn't have time to make dinner but he gave me a to-go tupperware container of blueberry soup. it's so good. i. can't. even. explain. it. to. you. but if you like blueberries, you'll love blueberry soup. i brought it into the office to share it with kiki. today is hopefully the last day of rain (3rd in a row) and the temperature is supposed to go up 30 degrees tomorrow and be sunny so i can get back on zombie charity before i turn into a lump since i've been eating like crap since sunday's diet of sprees, protein bars and water. hee.