** RAMBLES ADDED: 19 MAY 2005 **
(As always, new rambles are purple and bold.)

Just a few songs that make me turn up my stereo SO LOUD that I swear I'm gonna bust my eardrums!! IMAGINE THE DECIBELS!!!!! But seriously... this list will ALWAYS be incomplete... there's always new music to discover... but this is just a sample of what gets me moving!

Oldies But Goodies (you know I love that classic R&B and Soul... so this list will take a while for me to complete!)
	"Stay In My Corner" -The Dells		"Oh What A Night" -The Dells
	"I'm So Proud" -The Impressions		"Keep On Pushin'" -The Impressions
	"Don't Look Back" -The Temptations		"Get Ready" - The Temptations
	"If This World Were Mine" -Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Modern Mix of Favorites Okay... so I realized the futility of this particular section and decided to delete it...
Jazz (Smooth, Latin, etc.)
	"Forever Dreamin" -Paul Hardcastle		"Popsicle Toes" -Diana Krall
	"The Nearness of You" -Norah Jones		"Turn Me On" -Norah Jones
	"Watermelon Man" -Poncho Sanchez and Mongo Santamaria		"Oye Como Va" -Tito Puente
	"Descarga Cachao" -Tito Rodriguez		"Conceirto de Aranjuez" -Miles Davis
Country
	"Wrapped Up In You" -Garth Brooks		"Two People Fell in Love" -Brad Paisley
	"Where Would You Be" -Martina McBride		"You've Got a Way" -Shania Twain
	"When You Come Back Down" -Nickel Creek		"Telluride" -Tim McGraw
	"Unbroken" -Tim McGraw		"Without You" -Dixie Chicks
	"Landslide" -Dixie Chicks		"10 Rounds with Jose Cuervo" -Tracy Byrd
Miscellaneous
	"All Along The Watchtower" -Jimi Hendrix		"Purple Haze" -Jimi Hendrix
	"Satisfy My Soul" -Bob Marley & The Wailers

  <-- Deep thoughts... Yeah right!! 

How does olive oil lose it's virginity? (extra virgin olive oil vs. light olive oil)Can you daydream at night?Why don't psychics win the lottery?

Doing a LOT of cooking... trying different things. Eating lots of vegetables and discovering new ways to prepare them. My favorite HAS to be roasting them. I don't think you can find anything better than roasted bell peppers!! So what... I lose most of the nutritional value n' stuff by roasting the hell outta of them... they're tasty dangit!!

Finally perfected a Miso soup. Getting better at Japanese cuisine.

Made my own recipe for enchiladas. I don't care for the traditional enchilada sauce... so I've devised my own mad scientist approach!!

I make hella good salsa and guacamole... didn't you know? Well you should... geez I'm approx 75% Latina afterall!!!

Wanna do a juice detox. But I need a juicer! Dang-it!! Well, I hope that Santa brings me one this year! That would be good!

People who can't drive worth a damn get on my last nerve! What the hell?!?!?

Why the hell is it so difficult to find a job that doesn't involve sales? That sh*t gets on my nerves!

Why don't people check their email? And when they do, why don't they reply in a timely manner? Common courtesy... HELLO!!!!!

Why can't I find a decent guy? It's like... all they want is to get me into bed. I mean geez, at least let me get to know you first! (HA! not like it's gonna go down then either! HA!) I'm just getting too damn old for that stuff. Not like my biological clock is ticking or anything like that... it's just I feel as if we're too old to be jumping into the bed of some random stranger!

Why do relationships between most people become so awkward with the passage of time? I mean, I have a couple of friends that no matter how many months have passed since our last communication we can always just pick up as if we never had time apart. But for the most part...  it's like we've become totally different people, and whatever bond we used to have, has ceased to exist. Not sure if I put that right, but I just think it sucks! I mean, I had some really cool friends that I used to talk to quite often, (then life took over), and now... it's like we never knew each other. That crap really blows!!

So... it's really nice to have a job that doesn't involve sales... but the commute from point A to point B via public transportation is a bit of a bear! Actually, my complaint isn't so much about using public trans (cuz I could easily just drive myself to and from work... but this saves my car and me a lot of grief!)... it's more of wasting about 4 hours of my day getting to and from work. It's like I'm just wasting so much time... so much of life! Yeah, I will start looking for a place closer to work... but I need to make sure that my finances are in a place that will allow me to be comfortable... BUT... I think it needs to be in less than a year!

So I'm back at one of those stages where I'm re-evaluating certain things and their importance in my life. What's getting me at present time... is mostly a self-inflicted dependence... my dependence on a certain person. Wondering how well I can continue if I change the status of this relationship. You know... try to release myself from needing her/him as much as I do. Cuz things being the way they are, I know I'm setting myself up for a MAJOR fall! I've been through it once before... and it's really difficult to get back up! Not sure that makes any sense... and it's hard to put everything out there w/out giving specifics... but ya'll should know that I'm private like that... things stay between just the people involved... cuz it's really no one else's business...