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So you know what I think about diet pills and the like. I think that people should just work their ass off rather than depending on a diet supplement to do it for them. Better for your health, no?

So what do you think? What’s your take on this?

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So what instrument do you play?

When I was younger, I used to play keyboard a bit. You know, try to compose stuff that I can sing to. I failed miserably. Since then, I haven’t done much in terms of playing instruments. Unless, of course, you count me singing.

If you were to ask me what instrument I’d like to learn to play, guitar would be first on that list. I also would like to learn how to play piano. One of these days, maybe.

So, what instrument do you play, and if you don’t play one, what would you like to learn to play?

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A few years ago, I ended up getting a digital camera as an early birthday present to myself. This camera needed an xD card, which was hell to find for a reasonable price. I found several other flash memory drives for sale for so much cheaper. Then I got to those and saw $60 for one. Are you kidding me?

I decided to wait. Things go on sale, and maybe this would drop to about $20. I got mine for $6. There was a sale on QVC for one day only, and narrowly missed the deadline for it. Great stuff, that. Since then, I’ve taken loads of nature pictures, and I’m able to not have to delete them from the camera because I ran out of space! Score.

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Stress, stress, stress
That led to a migraine
Which made me feel like shit for a few days.

Now you should know that I am a worrier. So much so that I’ll stress out, most likely get myself under the weather for no particiular reason. Also when I worry, I tend to shut down. I did that for the past week. I lost track of time to the point where I found myself asking “what happened”. What happened? I always joke about being really late about things, but it was really bad this week. I knew what was going on, but to save me my sanity, I blocked it out. Of course, I couldn’t do it entirely, so it would come back and hard.

I’ve been pretty miserable as of late in terms of health. Who knows why; most likely stress related. But don’t worry, I’ll be all right. So far, part of what I’m worried about is slowly working out. We won’t know until at least another week.

Thanks for your patience.

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A husband and wife thought that would be a good idea to start off the new year by looking into home gyms. They worked a lot, so getting a gym membership was out of the question, even though they can afford it. They found a couple of stuff, but they had different views. And things got very ugly.

Husband: Come on, honey! I like this machine! It has everything for the both of us!
Wife: But it’s too expensive! We’re hardly home to use it anyway!
Husband: Oh, we can afford it!
Wife: Doesn’t mean we should blow it all on stuff like this!
Husband: Wait…aren’t you the one who wanted to do this?
Wife: Yes, but–
Husband: Aren’t you the one who complained about her butt getting too big?
Wife:…Excuse me?
Husband: You said it yourself; “ahhh! I need to lose this butt!” Then I said, “you’re right; the sun is envying your right now.”
Wife: Are you freaking kidding me? You have jokes about my butt?!
Husband: You asked for it.
Wife: Okay, you wanna have jokes? Well, you know, your gut appears that you have swallowed a couple of bowling balls. I’m just saying.
Husband: Ohh…(laughs) Ohh, talking about my gut, eh? So, what whale are you?
Wife: What?!
Husband: You heard me! You beached whale!
Wife: You dinosaur! The only reason why I married you is because I was broke!
Husband: I’m getting too old for this! I’m gonna be 85 years old in a few weeks! I shouldn’t be messing around with someone your age, but I loved you!
Wife: Then maybe I should leave!
Husband: Go, you stupid golddigger!
Wife: (huffs) Hmph!

As she slammed the door behind her, her husband ended up buying the gym equipment he wanted, then called a divorce lawyer. He left her with nothing; not even a dumbbell. However, he left her a post-it that said “Hopefully that dude you were cheating on me with can afford you. Bye, Whale.”

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Dear Mother Nature,

Hai, do you know where I can find great Mesothelioma lawyers?

No, for serious though, what’s with all this rain? I’d like to go outside and take more pictures. At least the rain is making it possible for the flowers to bloom and flourish and all that. But, it also makes me all groggy and…ick.

Please be fixing that. Thank you.

I…hate you,

Nat Marie

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*Counts on her fingers then gives up*

I promise that it will not take 6 months (give or take) for another layout again.

But yes, I finally dragged myself away from PWI¹ long enough to actually be productive. I did change a few things from the screenshot a while back (as I always do). I’m also 99.99999% sure that I’m going to find something wrong and try to figure out why the hell it isn’t working. But I am loving this color scheme. Totally different from what I do. The browns, that is.

Since it is about 4am, I should be going. Maybe I’ll think of a story that surrounds leads for insurance while I sleep. Did you know that a couple of my writing pieces were inspired by dreams? In that case, I should write a horror play where someone gets killed in some gruesome way.²

Here’s a screenshot to leave ya with.

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Yesterday was a nice day. Hot as hell, but nice nonetheless. After (not) hearing a long story about how my mom wanted me to look into wood flooring online, I just went on to distract myself doing other things. One of those things is going outside and taking a walk (while risking an unneeded tan) and taking pictures. This is why I love spring, folks. This is the only reason why I love spring.

I figured that even though I wasn’t outside much yesterday, I’ll just stay in today. I hate the heat.

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I remember back about 10-15 years ago, there was this drug called Phen-Phen (or something like that). It was primarily used for…you guessed it; weight loss. Yet another “magic pill” for the lazy. But it was later pulled because it removed people out of the gene pool. Some magic pill. “Hey, take this and DIE!”

I came across phenphedrine reviews, and it reminded me of that drug, which contained this and something else (I forgot what though). It’s clear that this thing is dangerous, but people think “oh, I’ll take this pill, and I’ll lose weight!” Not the case.

PS: I fell off the bandwagon a while ago, but managed not to gain nor lose anything. My body is weird as hell.

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A couple of weeks ago, my sister came over with her 3 children. Okay, so one is of the canine persuasion, but he’s a puppy. I had no clue she was bringing him, along with all his dog supplies; even down to the pooper scooper. Now, I knew that something like that exists just so you don’t have to touch the boo-boo. Why don’t more people around here know that?

I have neighbors who has two dogs. First of all, he walks them unleashed, then if they want to do their business, they do it right on…our grass. What’s more is that the owner has no decency to get something to pick it up. They really know how to enforce that “clean up after your dog” law here. I don’t know what we do in situations like this, other than to talk to them, which is hard to when they don’t listen. Ugh.

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…Even if you’re not feeling it, force that ass to write.

I lost my writing mojo. The last time this happened, it lasted 3 years. I tried to create an impromptu shorty surrounded around ancestry dna, but it wouldn’t work. I’m pretty sure that if it came up a few months back, I would have been able to. Argh.

Anyway, the rain finally ended, and I got some early blooming flower photos. But this weather is freaking bipolar. How else would it be 80 degrees one day, then two days later, 40 degrees colder? Ugh.

And I promised you a new layout, and switching things around to make them work is proving to be hard, but it’s gonna happen.

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Surprise!

Okay, so I’m very much detached from anything that requires opening up a browser. I open one up to check my emails and to send out my resume and then I go off and play Perfect World. Addicted, yes, but my interest in web surfing has been waning for a while. But I can give you some kind of update.

1. Been trying to work on the new layout. So far, it’s coded, but I screwed up the navigation. So I can get it up by the end of the week if I hyper-focus on just that.
2. Spring has sprung, and so has the flowers. But my camera has no nature pics on them just yet. Eventually.
3. It’s still raining…was beautiful for a bit, but it’s raining again. Nice, Mother Nature. Nice.
4. I’ve come to the conclusion that there are some things that I rather keep under wraps from now on, because I end up jinxing it. Ha! That means no more “new boyfriend” posts unless I magically become engaged.
5. The Family Guy episode where Lois went into modeling and was offered to take diet pills to get thinner¹ came on for the umteen millionth time. Funny episode.
6. I still have an unhealthy obsession with the number 7, and it’s making my nose twitch that I won’t be able to have a seventh list item.

Don’t worry, maybe something will pop up, and I’ll have my net browsing mojo back. But until then, I’ll laugh at PW mobs such as this one. PS: that frying pan and spatula hurts…bad.

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Oh, hoi internets.

I hate rain. Some people take it as an opportunity to curl up with a couple of good books, but…I hate rain. If I’m already drained for whatever reason, it makes it that much more miserable. I don’t care if it brings May flowers, but April showers absolutely suck.

Anyway, I’m finding myself a bit detached from the internet. Some people probably haven’t noticed my disappearance these past few days, but I’m just bored. I open up a browser, check my email, Plurk a bit, go on message boards, but otherwise, there really isn’t that appeal as it was before. Which brings me back to a certain question: can one get tired (or grow out) of the internet? Or is it just one of my obsessive/addictive things that has pushed opening a browser for surfing away for PWI? The world may never know.

Oh, and one of my guildies apparently doesn’t believe me when I said that I have a screenshot of him embracing a fox. So this is especially for him, along with these words.

Told you.

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Hey all.

For the past 3 years, Crestfallen’s been a great part of my life. Yes, we’ve had some rough moments, but we’ve lived through it. I didn’t know that I’d last this long, but I’m a writer. I love to write, whether it be the dark humor entries or my Impromptu Shorties(TM). It’s been an outlet for me, and plenty have been reading. I’m grateful for that.

However, all semi-good things must come to an end.

Due to a lot of stress in my life, I’ve decided to close Crestfallen . I’m sure a few of you have noticed my disappearance as of late, but I’m pretty much at a time where the internet doesn’t even excite me anymore. So I need to separate myself from it as much as possible. Unfortunately, this means leaving this site and Plurk as well, although they seem to be closing too.

I want to thank everyone for the good times, the unintentional drama, and the lulz. I love you all, and I’ll see you on the flip side.

Oh…what’s today’s date, Cresty? April 1st, you say? Oh! Shit! It’s April Fool’s Day!

Hai all. If you have gotten this far, that means that you have been fooled. I ain’t going nowhere. I’m working on a new layout…slowly, but surely. I was trying to do it last night after PW went down for maintenance, but I was too busy speaking to an ex-guildie of mine. And by the way, Plurk did an April Fool’s joke on us as well. Bitter? Nice.

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So apparently, my cousin’s truck got crushed by another…bigger truck.

Okay, let me start from the beginning. My mom was talking to her on the phone, and from what I got out of the conversation, the truck was parked on a corner. A larger SUV came to turn and scraped the holy hell out of it. She’s clearly not at fault; but since she lives in a high-risk area where parking is like finding the perfect guy–damn near impossible, her insurance rates are sure to go up.

I don’t drive, and I have no reason to while living in NYC¹. I don’t know how the whole thing works, but I think it’s just downright crappy that her rates will go up, when this idiot, who’s probably too short to see over the dashboard, is at fault.

But I don’t know how it works, so…*shrugs*

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For the past few days, a couple of my guildies from PWI told me that some of our very unusual chilling out moments and conversations are totally blog-worthy¹. I shot down a few ideas, but the Bliss nap time moment is too freaking hilarious to not share. We spent 1 hour doing nothing (after killing some massive bosses though) and we all just…fell.

Then there are the several conversations that are riddled with innuendo. I look forward to logging on and laughing my ass off. Score.

(For those who gives a shit–or is curious, I’m Destini in that screenshot. Yes, the black chick.)

Anyway, end psuedo-nerd. I’ve read several blogs in my lifetime. Some that document the lives of the blogger (which is hit and miss), some with pretty pictures mixed into the often insightful entries. Some that have a comical outlook on life. A few totally geeky blogs (some can be interesting!). I’ve read them all.² I’m sure that sometimes they have an inside fight about what is blogworthy and what isn’t.

As I mentioned time and time again, I live a very uneventful life. If I post anything about my life, it’d be like this:

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Never mind looking for your next sale. Window shopping is the way to go, yo!

Okay, I lie. As the economy dies a long painful death[1.Okay, it's on life support.] , there are plenty of sites throwing out articles about how to save money and the like. Just yesterday, I read one about how to save money by drinking filtered tap water and save about $300 a month. I’m someone who’ll drink water as long as ice is accessible, and since my fridge has the built-in water and ice dispenser, we’re kinda saving ourselves the money spent on an actual filter to put over the faucet.

They even had ways of saving on your gym membership. I’m thinking to myself–why even bother going to a gym membership? Get a jump rope, a ball, and a yoga mat. There you go.

With that being said, I ran into this Youtube video advertising buy.com. Apparently they sell everything for cheap…everything but the kitchen sink, but come on; it’s Howie Mandel. Can’t go wrong there.

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Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. I spent most of my day sleeping because…well, I did explain it. I vow to never do that again, but my guild members and I had an interesting time tonight. Let’s just say that someone pulled three mobs on us and she runs away and they come after me. I didn’t even touch them. All the while, three men are laughing as I fall. Thanks guys!

But yeah. The non-nerd is seriously kicking in. Make it stop!!

As I posted up there, that’s (yet) another layout that I put together. As much as I liked the other two, I found one problem with it. Too. Fucking. Light. Obviously, for those who have frequently visited this site, the lack of black would have been a change. But…I hate change, and I went another way. But, you have to hand it to me–I didn’t do black this time. I used a color combination that I’ve never, ever done before. Blue and brown. I use blue a lot in my layouts. It’s one of my favorite colors. However, brown is probably one of my least favorite colors, but the two together looks fucking awesome, depending on how it’s used. I’m still in the progress of coding, and I actually changed a few things as well in order for it to work. Good luck to my black ass.

4 am and I’m not even tired. Nice. Off to Perfect World I go!

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I’m constantly looking for a job, but not once did I think about health care jobs. It never really crossed my mind for some reason. They are in demand 85% of the time¹, but part of my beef is that I don’t seem to have a huge strength on my resume. Health care is no where to be found on there, but a lot of computer-related stuff is. While that’s desirable, it doesn’t seem to get me anywhere. Maybe I should try it though. No harm, no foul, right?