Sparkle's Soda

Hey here's something for those of you that like to make your own drinks. 

Soda Sparkle allows you to make your own soda at home in ten easy steps.

Get the instructions at this link http://nickisrandommusings.com/2012/12/17/soda-sparkle-review/

Here's Soda Sparkle's pitch

Turn cold water into the soda beverage of your choice in seconds with our patented SodaSparkle™ soda maker. Quick, simple and safe to use. Keep the kitchen counter clean and organized: SodaSparkle is small, convenient and easy to store. No more carrying heavy bottles and cans of soda home or struggle to find a place to store them. Stop adding bottles and cans to the huge pile of waste that damage the environment. Soda Sparkle bottles can be used for years and the CO2 chargers are fully recyclable.

 You can enter to win your own Soda Sparkle soda maker machine. Giveaway hosted by   Nicki's Random Musings  http://nickisrandommusings.com

Here's some product information from the Soda Sparkle website:

SodaSparkle Features and Benefits:

• Turns cold water into sparkling waters and flavored carbonated soft drinks in seconds.

• Safe, quick, fun and easy to use; It is environmentally friendly and eliminates the need to carry heavy bags with soda bottles or find a place to store them.

• Use the 1.3 liter bottle for a great refreshing sparkling drink, or use the 1 liter bottle for extra strong fizz.

This Kit Includes:

• 1 x SodaSparkle Machine

• 1 x 1.3 liter bottle (light fizz)

• 5 x CO2 chargers

• 15 x single serve packs starter kit (3 single serve packs x 5 flavors)</em>

Giveaway runs from December 22 til January 6th at 12 AM.  Giveaway is open to residents of the US only.  Enter via the Rafflecopter below.

I don't know about you guys but this is a product I'm interested in trying cans and plastic bottles can be horrible for our enviroment and it would be cool to be able to make sodas at home anytime. Here's the giveaway link again: http://nickisrandommusings.com

A geeky new year

If you don't like all the holiday gifts you receive this year why not get yourself all the geeky stuff you've secretly been wanting. Her's some cool items I personally like. If you are still doing some last minute shopping you can always wrap this under the tree for yourself.
Light Saver Lamp $38.99 at thinkgeek.com
 Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver 89.99 thinkgeek.com

 T- shirt $19.95 snorgtees.com

 T-shirt $19.95 snorgtees.com
 T-shirt $19.99 computergear.com
 Flash shirt 24.99 superherostuff.com
Spiderman shirt $28.99 superherostuff.com
 Batman varsity jacket  $49.99 superherostuff.com

Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

Okay this post is for those who have not yet bought a costume or don't have a lot of money to buy a costume.  I found some costume ideas that use items you may already have.

Rosie the Riverter
  
All you need is a dark blue dress or jean shirt and a orange or red polka dot scarf.


Cowgirl or cowboy


Mary Poppins and Bert


 You can always substitute a broom for the chimney sweeper.

Sherlock Holmes

Okay only try this one if you have a cape, a fake pipe you can buy at a toy store.

Waldo from Where's Waldo

 

The Eleventh Doctor Who and Amy Pond
 
You can get a sonic screwdriver  at ThinkGeek.com

Superman


I hope these help.

Progress

Well as you can see from my little dashboard at the top of this site, since I last posted I have made progress with my weight. I joined myfitness pal. I joined the first time I lost weight and I think this site really helped. I log in what I eat everyday and my exercise. The site predicts how much I will weigh in  weeks if I keep eating and exercising this way. As long as it says I will loose I'm happy.
The site gives you extra calories to eat if you exercise but it's important not to use all of those calories or you probably will not loose. I have been loosing pretty consistently.

I took a picture of me at 145 so once I reach 13 I'm going to take another picture to show my progress. I will do this with 12, and 11 until I reach my goal of 10.

OH MY GOD i's been so long since I've posted. I forgot my password and I forgot which e-mail I used to start this blog. Luckily I have hat down now.

Let's see what has happened since I last posted. I had lost fifteen pounds but don't clap for me because  I regained almost all of it.

I have decided to start exercising again though. My roomie and co worker have started up again,isn't it funny when that happen, people start a fitness plan, stop, then as if on cue everyone decides to start up again.

My co worker Jordan wants to loose 2 pound by the end of October. I told her I was going to make that my new goal. I don't know that I'll do it but this should at least get me back on track.
I have to start keeping track of my exercising and eating again.

One thing I am proud of is I've gone back to school. I'm only taking two classes right now but that's something. One of my classes is a computer class, I hope too take more of these. I want to be able to program.

My other class is an English class. I've decided to start posting short stories here.

I'm going to start a different blog for fashion.

I should hopefully be posting a story this coming Friday.

Santa is a puppy

I spent the holidays with my family. It was not as festive as it should be. My mom is going through a divorce. Her husband who she had been with for about fourteen years decided to leave her near the holidays. The kicker is that he left her for a woman who he met in church.

I've heard of women going to church to meet a husband but I'm pretty sure most of the time it's not someone else's husband. 

Regardless the holidays were pretty normal. We ate dinner together and opened presents.

Some of my cousins were there, one of my cousins is about five so we left cookie's and milk out for Santa. They actually got eaten by my mum's puppy Messy. His mom told him the cookies got eaten by Santa.

David Arquette at WORLDTONE Dance. Unfortunately. He didn't win. I'm the short one on the right. I look horrible in this picture. Just a reminder I need to loose weight.
David really liked our shoes. Most of the guys just go with a plain black pair pair of shoes. David has his own style so he actually like some of the men's shoe's we have that are in different colors he paid for some himself.

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Now at bloglovin. Hopefully. As soon as I figuere out how to add my blog that is.
Sigh, what a difficult life I lead.

Why isn't it easier?

Why is it so much easier to gain weight than it is to loose it. No really I got complacent and a little depressed. I stopped caring about my weight feeling like no one was looking at me anyway and I gained twenty pounds. Now that I'm feeling more positive and back to caring how I look I have to try and loose the weight to get that bikini bod I've always wanted.
When I gained weight I didn't do much, went to work, came home ate and watched tv, ate some more. I'm definitely a snacker, I love food. Even as a little child I would sometimes eat when not hungry because I liked the taste of the food. My mom was always telling me to eat less. "Look at me, be like me not your dad" my mom has always been concerned about not getting too big. At one point when my mom was a teenager she ate onion every time she got hungry, she used it as a appetite suppressant and it worked it got to the point that she wanted to throw up whenever she even thought of food. My dad tells me she didn't like to eat when she was pregnant with me so that she wouldn't get fat. I weighed 4 pound 5 ounces when I was born, which isn't too bad. The average weight is six to nine but at least I was healthy. I am after all still here. Back when my mom would tell me to be like her I would roll my eyes, I didn't want to scale down my portions. I guess someone has talked to y mom about weight being a touchy matter because now she tells me I am beautiful as I am but she wants me to loose weight for my health. She has been telling me horror stories about diabetes. I am not that big, I'm not obecesse still when she tells me these things I get worried.
I guess I want to loose weight now partly for my health and partly for my bikini bod that I dream of. I drank smoothies for breakfast for a week. I have stopped eating out, I was big on eating out. I think I ate out most of the week. I have stopped drinking soda, I think I haven't had one for about two weeks. I have even attempted to start walking more. The Thursday before last I even went hiking at Runyon Canyon. This Thursday I am suppose to go again, I think I'll try to catch a free yoga class too. They have free yoga classes three times a day pretty much everyday. Anyway the point is the weight isn't just melting off like it just packed on. Why is this so, why is the world so unfair?
Sigh I guess I'll just have to keep working on the bikini bod I am determined not to go back to all my bad eating habits this time. Soon I hope to have this body.

Yahoo!!

A short story of mine just go posted by yahoo. I am officially a yahoo contributer. I know it's not super prestigeous but still it's cool. I can after all call myself a published writer now. Check out my story go to:


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8345345/just_another_new_yorker.html 

My Addiction

I have become addicted to the 99c store. If you read my first blog you know that I don't drive.
That means I have to the bus home from work and the bus I usually take drops me off right by the 99c store.
I try to resist but I can't help my curiosity, everything is 99c after all. I find myself going in and always picking up a few items here and there. Somehow I end up spending $10-$20 each time I go in. I always find something I need if not food then something for the house to organize or decorate. They even have some craft stuff. It's irisistable. I don't think i'll be getting rid of this addiction any time soon.

No Food Blog

There is something about the art of making pupusas that is beyond my grasp.
In case you don't know what they are. It's a El Salvadorian dish. They're are like stuffed totillas.
My fav are the kind stuffed with beans and cheese.
My mom knows how to make them, when I was making them with her they came out great when
I tried to make them by myself disaster, heavy on the dis. They somehow ended up drying out and not cooking on all parts. I don't understand what happened, I really thought I knew how to make them.
Alas I am not a natural in the kitchen.
Want to know what else happened this week? I burnt water. I was making tea. I was boiling it in a pot because my boo thinks it taste better that way and I forgot about it and all the water evaporated. The place smelled like burnt tea. Who knew that could happen? And this happened twice!


I know one thing for sure I will not be writing a food blog.

New Buffy Movie No Fangs?

A new Buffy movie? Am I the last to hear about this?

As you may have heard Warner Bros. is working on a new Buffy movie they're hoping will come out 2012.

Don't expect it to be too much like the show. This new movie was not written by Josh Whendon, in fact Josh isn't involved at all. Instead this movie was written by Whit Anderson.

Anderson has said that she was a big fan of the show she has acknowledge that some fans will be skeptical because of Josh's non involvement. I'm glad she knows it will be a rocky road since some Buffy fans are outraged Protest sites have popped up on the internet. The truth is you can't blame them Josh Whendon is an Oscar nominated writer whereas Whit has no commercial writing experience. Another reason to be skeptical buffy friends from the show will not be in the movie. Warner Bros  optioned the rights from movie creators Fran and Kaz Kuzui, but the characters from the show belong to Josh.

Fans aren't the only ones who are skeptical former Buffy cast members are also skeptical. Eliza Dushku (‘Faith’) had this to say “Joss [Whedon] made the Buffster [and without] him… I just don’t trust the girl. Or the world.”

Anthony Stewart Head (Giles)said this “The bottom line is if a movie was ever to be made, it should be made with Joss Whedon, whether it’s a retrospective or not. But it would be madness to do it without him. [The Kazuis] have the rights to because they have the rights to the original movie, but it should be interesting to see. It may be a bit like watching a car wreck.”

Josh himself has admitted to having mixed feelings about the upcoming movie when questioned about it. In his email response to E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos he had this to say:

"I always hoped that Buffy would live on even after my death.  But, you know, AFTER.  I don't love the idea of my creation in other hands, but I'm also well aware that many more hands than mine went into making that show what it was. And there is no legal grounds for doing anything other than sighing audibly. I can't wish people who are passionate about my little myth ill. I can, however, take this time to announce that I'm making a Batman movie.  Because there's a franchise that truly needs updating. So look for The Dark Knight Rises Way Earlier Than That Other One And Also More Cheaply And In Toronto, rebooting into a theater near you.

Leave me to my pain!  Sincerely, Joss Whedon."

I myself agree with Anthony Stewart Head this movie should not have been made without Josh. I was shocked about when a co-worker informed me that they were making a new Buffy movie without josh. My first reaction: What????

I had actually hoped they would make a Buffy movie but not without Josh and not without Sarah Michelle Gellar. What will happen to the Buffy wit we've all known and loved? Much like with the new Spiderman remake it's too soon and not wanted. This is a cult classic not Batman and robin the movie.

Dancing with the Stars

It's that time again. Dancing with the Stars starts up in September. People are buzzing about it. There's all kinds of speculation on TV and in magazines. At the little store where I work we have a special reason to think about this upcoming season. We provide the shoes for the show just like we provide shoes for Glee, Broadway shows (Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, The Book of Mormon, Spiderman) and occassinaly movies (Burlesque, Nine) .
 
To be honest I only started watching last year but once I started watching I was hooked. The show is new to me so everything is still fresh and interesting and I can't wait to see who is on this year or who will come into the store. A perk about working at WORLDTONE (used to be a record store) is sometimes you get to meet a celebrity. I doubt Brad Pitt will ever go in but recently Katie Cruz went in with daughter Suri. Suri is taking dance they've been to our NY store and a few weeks ago they visited the LA store. The next day there were articles about it.

Of course that was unexpected just like Rita Moreno coming in you may not know her but she is a legend she was in West Side Story. She is now working on a one woman show Life Without Makeup. Dick Van Dike also came in once, it may the owner's day. She wanted to marry him when she was a little girl. She confessed to him that when she was little it was him and the Flash, before her brother told her he is just paper. Brothers are so cruel right? In addition to these random visits we can look forward to the beginning of Dancing With the Stars, often a celeb or two will come before the show starts and get fitted. Last year it was Chelsea Kane, Hines Ward, Kristie Allie, the year before that Brandy, Jennifer Grey, Bristol Palin, and Florence Henderson.


Most of those people did pretty well I think we may be a good luck charm. I bet the next winner will be in the store this August.

I Walk In LA and I Hate It

Hi this is my first official blog post.


I signed up for a blog yesterday. Oi typical me I sign up for a blog and don't set it up or post anything until the next day. I'm such a procrastinator, I really hate that about me sometimes. That's something I want to work on. Another thing I want to work on is driving. I live in LA and I can't drive. Trust me it sucks, there's even a song called Nobody Walks In LA. I feel life half my life is wasted because I have to take public transportation. By the end of 2012 I want to be able to drive, I would say 2011 but that seems like so little time. I'm going to be nice and give myself some time. I'm posting it in hopes that writing this where people can see will help me actually stick to this goal. Okay I have no money for a car but I'll get to that later. First things first learn to drive.


Why don't I know already you ask. Well it all started when I was first learning to drive. I got a call for a job interview in Santa Monica. I was home alone so I couldn't get a ride from my mom. I decided to be bold and take the car even though it was a 30 minute drive. The going wasn't so bad, I was nervous but I made it there without incident. Parking was horrendeous not because I couldn't find any but because I was horrible. I think I spent hours trying to park. Still that is not what caused me to have  a  fear of driving. On my way back, it had gotten dark (not good) that made me really nervous, I made it almost home and then about a block away from my house, I side swiped a white van, I scratched the van and broke the mirror off my car. That traumatized me from then on I've been afraid I'll get into an accident while driving. I'm not even afraid I'll get seriously hurt, nothing happened to me and no one was in the van and it just got a scratch. My real fear is of being sued for hitting another car. Isn't that a statement about our times that I don't fear death in a car crash just a lawsuit. It's either a statement of our times or of me and I'm not sure what it says about me.


What I do know is I need to get over my fear to have a better life. So by the end of  2012 I will have a driver's licence.


P.S. I didn't get the job.