Future Story Idea - What do you think? Yay or Nay?

Within the confines of it's cell, the creature androgynous in nature, schemes. Free to wander, it slithers to and fro unbeknownst to man. Listening in from dark corners and abandoned alleyways, it gathers information to use on any unlucky soul that crosses it's path. There are few who can sense it's evil and are naturally repelled by it. We call them the Sensitives. The Sensitives are a solitary lot, preferring to be left in peace to study, research and record past, current and future events for there are the lucky few who are seers.

*Allene Angelica*
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The Wretched Creature

What can I say about a heart so black with no moral guidelines, run amok to cause pain and destruction from within.  The cancer spreads it's vile poison from one corner to another felling one innocent after another, old and young alike, there is no discrimination.  The attacks vicious and cruel meant to maim and cripple.  I do not cower from this poison but I avoid it's touch.  It's touch meant to disarm is revolting.  My stomach struggles to stay calm, my body still but I am not deceived by it's assumed cleverness.  The wretched creature uses human weakness as it's door.  "Oh woe is me, oh woe is me..." can be heard through it's lips whispering into the ears of the unaware.  But as surely as the sun rises every morn the truth will out.  The beast with it's sunken dark ringed eyes will blow it's cover and the black within uncover.
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*Allene Angelica*

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My Misery Inspires Me

Pain, anger, misery
Inspires me
My blood pounding
In my veins
My tears
A torrent of rain
My fingers clutching
My pen
The words
Flying to no end
Where, where
Is my misery
She is gone
Gone from me.

*Allene Angelica*
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Vlogs

My daughter and I had a short discussion last night regarding vloggers.  It was a very brief discussion consisting of short precise text messages expressing her incomprehension of why vloggers vlog.  Most of the vlogs she has watched were boring in her opinion and hard to get through but she does enjoy the ones with comical skits.  It got me thinking...I've read a few articles from writers of the opinion that vloggers just want their five minutes of fame or a step up the ladder to fame and fortune.  Whatever the reasons...I think it's similar to why people blog just a bit more obvious, they are putting their face out there for the whole world to see.  Maybe they are expressing themselves in the only way they know how.  Maybe they feel more comfortable speaking in front of a camera while I for instance feel better writing or typing my feelings, opinions, etc... down on paper or my blog site.  Do I care if anyone reads it?  Not really...it's just my thoughts and experiences that I need to put somewhere.  I have had tons of journals over the years and tucked in to those journals are pieces of scratch paper, napkins, whatever I could get my hands on at the time to jot down thoughts, poems or ideas.  Most of them I've lost or burned never to be seen again, especially my racier ones.  When I die I don't need evidence for my children or my grandchildren to find and read just how passionate their mother or grandmother used to be, not that it would make any difference, I'd be dead.  I've kept my online blogs fairly tame.  Nothing to read years later and blush about.  Although if my children were to ever get their sticky little fingers on my journals and read them I'm sure they would just laugh and think to themselves..."That's our Mommy!"

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*Allene Angelica*

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Magic in the A.M.

Although it's uncomfortably cold at 5:30 am and I'm so layered in hoodies I look like an Eskimo, I love it when I walk my dog and notice the grass glistening with iced dew.  With the silent streets, the chill in the air and the grass sparkling as the street lights shine on them, it feels like magic.

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*Allene Angelica*

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I Don't Know What People Are Talking About

People tell me that I don't look old enough to have a twenty-three year old daughter but I look in the mirror and all I see are the ravages of time. I feel old. Especially this week. It's been a very brutal week. Stress, stress and more stress. I believe it was Tuesday or Wednesday night that I woke up at 12:30 a.m. with major lower back and stomach pains. I couldn't lay down comfortably in any position, sitting up was also impossible. I took a couple of extra strength Tylenols and an hour later it dulled the pain enough for me to get back to sleep. And then for the rest of the week the pain in my lower back has persisted. Even now as I sit here typing I feel it. Maybe I need to start doing yoga again. I don't know...

*Allene Angelica*
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I Really Did Try

Back on October 1st I swore to myself that I would really try this holiday season to not indulge too extravagantly, to stay on the straight and narrow, workout regularly and stick to a tight budget.  Well it is now December 15th and I'd say I did indulge (several times, I must have gained 100 lbs I'm sure), stepped off the beaten path here and there, worked out sporadically and blew my budget out of the water, to my boyfriend's chagrin.  I'm glad the season is almost over but I can't say I didn't enjoy the lunches, dinners, shopping and parties because I did...immensely!  The one thing I've been consistent with is not smoking...hooray!  I'm really proud of myself for that.  I do still have some shopping left to do but not a whole lot, to my boyfriend's relief...hehehe....  The year is starting to wind down and I'm already thinking about my New Year's Resolutions.  This year I'm happy to say I accomplished one of my resolutions, which is a first.  It's time to set new goals for 2012.


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*Allene Angelica*

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My Aphrodisiac

As I lean in to kiss him, I inhale his familiar scent. The scent of Irish Spring, Armani, cigarettes and whiskey on the skin of the man I love, for me, will always and forever be an aphrodisiac.

*Allene Angelica*
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I Don't Mean to Offend But...

So, I read an article today, probably on Yahoo somewhere, I can't really remember exactly where I saw it.  You know how cyberspace works...we flip through millions of information a day between that and actual work by the time you get home your brain is exhausted.  Anyways, back to the main topic, I read that scientists did a study on college students to find out how many times realistically do men and women think about sex.  They found that the men thought about sex over 300 times a day while the women thought about sex around 140 times a day.  Huge difference!  Well then that got my brain thinking back on an asian anime that I watched a year or so ago, I'm sure it was rated R.  Well, this particular anime was majorly gory, I couldn't watch the entire series but I do remember clearly this one episode where a woman was being guarded because she committed some sort of offense and because she was miserable she wasn't eating enough and had lost a lot of weight.  The two guards guarding her were talking about her weightloss and made a comment that she was so thin that when she bends over while bathing they can see her butth--e and that it was so unattractive.  I was like "Really?".  So of course you know what I had to do, don't you?  I went over to my wall mirror and bent over...hahaha...and was relieved to find that I had enough junk in my trunk...hahaha...  So back to men thinking about sex over 300 times a day...I wonder if one of those times during the day if that particular thought passes through their brain?  Well, as for me, if us women think about sex 140 times a day, I'd say that thought has crossed my mind today about 10 times already.  And when I see an especially thin woman my mind wonders.....hmmmm....

FYI...Red LED Light Treatment

Just to update regarding the red LED light treatments for my eczema.  I no longer have the eczema issue on my face.  It's been completely abolished and has not relapsed since my last posting about the subject.  I am still doing the red LED light treatments on my face a couples of time a month.  Usually during the week after I do a chemical peel.  So far so good.  Really happy with the results.

My Spa Weekend at Home Part 2

Ok, compared to today yesterday was a breeze. How many of you have heard of coconut oil? To use for the face, body and hair? Well if you have then I must have been living in another dimension for the last few decades because apparently coconut oil has been known and used worldwide for quite a few centuries. Why didn't I know that? I don't want to get into all the specifics, you can google it yourself, but it has been proven to be a healthier oil to cook with and use as part of a beauty regimen for the hair and skin. There has been some controversy regarding using it on the face. If you read the reviews some people have benefited from it's antimicrobial properties but some claim that it's comedogenic. I think it just depends on the person and how their body reacts to it. So, I spent most of this morning googling coconut oil and by the afternoon I was excited enough to go run to the nearest Whole Foods Market and purchased myself a jar. When I got home I was dubious as I looked at the white solid oil. It smells delicious but it looks a lot like that Crisco lard that people use to fry some fried chicken in albeit the coconut oil looks a lot prettier. So standing in front of the mirror I had to plan my strategy. I wanted to use the oil as a pre-shampoo treatment so I used a clean spoon and scooped out about a teaspoon full and warmed the oil between my hands by rubbing my palms together. It melts quickly. As soon as it was melted I saturated my hair with it concentrating on the ends and working my way up to my scalp and then massaging my scalp with the oil. When I was satisfied that I had slathered on enough to saturate each strand I rolled my hair up and secured it on top of my head and covered it with a plastic cap. While the oil was doing it's thing I prepared my face for the fourth installment of my chemical peel treatment. I did the treatment leaving it on for five minutes and then rinsed it off with cold water. I then got in the shower and did a sea salt and honey body scrub. I massaged my entire body with the scrub. It felt invigorating. I then took off the plastic cap, let my hair down and shampooed it. After rinsing the shampoo and all of the scrub off. I got out of the shower and towel dried my hair, while it was damp I scooped out maybe 1/3 of a teaspoon, melted it by rubbing my hands together and softly ran it through my hair concentrating on the ends and avoiding my scalp. I don't want my hair to look too greasy and then I scooped a little bit more of the oil, melted it and massaged it on my face. I know I'm taking a huge risk experimenting with an unknown product right before Thanksgiving but I'm just too curious to not give it a try. Hopefully I don't wake up Thanksgiving morning with a break out of acne or pimples. Knock on wood. So here I sit on my bed feeling soft, relaxed and smelling like dessert. My dog keeps sniffing me and looking like he wants to take a bite...

*Allene Angelica*
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My Spa Weekend at Home Part 1

Saturday:

During my teenage years I used to indulge in weekly hot oil treatments for my hair because I used to change the color of my hair on a monthly if not weekly basis. I was never into the out of the spectrum of natural hair colors like green, blue or pink but I did range the shades from jet black to red and every shade in between. No matter the abuse I managed to do to my hair it felt and looked healthy because I conditioned it well on a regular basis. As I got older I started falling short on the regular conditioning treatments and my hair just became another extra nuisance I tried to ignore. Eventually my hair started showing it's dislike of the neglect by becoming dry and frizzy. There was nothing I could put on it that would ease the dryness or eliminate the frizz. Until one day after getting my hair color touched up a couple of weeks ago by my hairdresser, I asked her about hair cellophane. She had no idea what I was talking about. I told her I used to go to another salon a many number of years ago that would cellophane my hair every few months and my hair would turn out smooth and shiny. She had never heard of it but she suggested doing a hot oil steam treatment for my hair. I thought why not might as well try it. She took some oil and a heavy cream conditioner and mixed it together in a bowl and slathered on my hair. Then she rolled my hair up on top of my head and put a plastic cap on and stuck me under a steamer. I was under the steamer for a good 30 minutes. After it was done she rinsed my hair out and dried it. My hair felt soft, supple and healthy. And no frizz. Amazing! She suggested I do the treatment once a month. I agreed because I loved the results but I knew a month would be too long so I started doing a similar treatment at home. Because I don't have a steamer I did the treatment in the shower. I mixed a plant based oil with a heavy cream conditioner, slathered it on all over my hair then secured my hair on top of my head and put a plastic cap on. I left it on my hair for about as long as it took me to soap and scrub the rest of my body, then removed the plastic cap and rinsed my hair thoroughly. Right now this very minute as my hair is air drying it feels wonderfully soft. I plan on doing this every weekend because I've decided it's time to stop neglecting my poor head of hair.

*Allene Angelica*
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Day 2 SharePoint 2010 Class

I'm home, just finished eating dinner. The class today was interesting and fun. Met some nice people, one is a Kaiser employee, 2 Federal Reserve employees and a Macy's.com employee. We were all in class together. The Macy's.com employee and I got along great since we were the only women in the class. She lives in S.F. so she knows all the great places to eat. For lunch she took me to The Galleria. Tons of restaurants to choose from. She was craving Japanese food so we went to a little Japanese restaurant. Once again I ordered a salmon dish. Delicious! For dessert she took me to Specialty's for some awesome cookies! These last couple of days was a great experience. I got to not only learn a valuable tool but I also got to experience a real city environment because realistically living and working in San Jose is suburbiaville compared to San Francisco.

*Allene Angelica*
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Day 1 -SharePoint 2010 Class in S.F.

The day is going fabulous so far. It's 1:06 pm and I'm half way through my class. Just finished doing five Lab exercises. I took a window seat on the third floor so I have a great view of New Montgomery St. People busily walking up and down the street going about their day. Outside my window across the street is a parking garage. The building is old and beautiful. I love that about S.F. All the great architecture.

6:03 pm. Been home for a half hour. It was great day and an interesting class. Very nice teacher. Very informative. If it was my choice I would take all my classes there in S.F. I don't think my company would go for that, though. It's nice to be in a classroom environment, you tend to concentrate more and are not interrupted by work related issues. Looking forward to day two of my class...hmmmm...where will I have lunch tomorrow?

*Allene Angelica*
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Happy Veterans Day!!!

Happy Veterans Day to my daddy and all the other veterans out there.  I thank you for fighting for our freedom and defending our country.  I'm sorry I couldn't be there at the parade to watch my dad walk proudly along with his fellow soldiers but my thoughts are with them.