1.  I quit my job last week.  I am very happy about this.  no income and no insurance sucks balls though.  I took out more student loans to make up for the lost income.  I may regret this later when I am trying to pay back $60k in loans instead of $45K, but I sure am pretty happy about it right now!

2.  speaking of school, I finished my 6th term yesterday morning.  I still have my 4.0gpa, whoo!  In case you are curious, I am working on my masters, and when I am done I will be a certified nurse midwife and a women's health nurse practitioner.  FWIW, the grading scale in grad school is A, B, F!!  A 79% is a fail!!  SCARY!!

3.  Late in june/early july I am moving to SANTA ROSA!!  Glenn is not moving until the end of the year, when we hope to settle in Burlingame.  In Santa Rosa, I will be doing my clinicals for school (kind-of an internship/residency) at a birth center!!!  I am super super excited about this.  the clients birth about 60% at the birth center, about 40% at the hospital (sutter btw), so it will be an interesting mix!!  I am really excited to be coming home!!

Hi.  My name is Caryn.  I am a graduate student at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, which is affiliated with the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University.  I am working on becoming a certified nurse midwife and a women’s health nurse practitioner.  I will be practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

My studies require that I do an assessment of the health care needs and desires of women and childbearing families in our community. I will be most grateful to you if you will help me complete this assignment by watching 2 quick videos and completing a short survey.  This should take more than 25-30 minutes of your time.

*You must be a person of childbearing age, with or without plans to have a baby in the near or far future, and you must live and/or work in the San Francisco Bay Area.*

There is also a very short survey if you are a doctor, nurse, or healthcare administrator.  This does not require you to watch any videos, and will take about 5 minutes of your time.

If you are interested in participating, please comment and leave your email  (comments are screened) and let me know which survey you are interested in: consumer, nurse, doctor, or administrator. I will send you the survey which you can complete at your convenience.  I will copy/paste as well as attaching it.  You will know the email is from me because the subject line will be “Childbirth Survey”. 

You may be helping the future of healthcare in the Bay Area by will be giving your opinion, possibly increasing your choices in birth for the future!

All information will be strictly confidential.

Thank you!

  ~  Caryn, RN, BSN, SNM, SNP

if you are a fan of the care, and a fan of lolcats, this is not to be missed!!
go here to see it without it stuck in a smaller window!

I don't care what anybody says, I really like Combichrist!

at freezone tonight in las vegas:

him:  can I sit here/ is anyone sitting here?
me:  no, go ahead
him:  do you have a boyfriend?
me:  I have a fiance (shows him ring)
him:  blathering on about how he came with a friend who left
me:  did she leave w/ a guy or a girl?
him:  a guy
(pause)
(wait for it!)
him:  am I in a gay bar?
me:  (trying not to piss myself)  yes, yes you are

freezone's logo?  a rainbow in the shape of a triangle!

ummm, yah, ok, not been in town long I take it?  this is in the part of town called "the fruit loop". 

so then I went to the bathroom and told everyone there about the hilarity!  also, lots of lesbian drama in the bathroom, but good for some entertainment, indeed!!

OMG, I just read the funniest "most embarrassing moment" in Real Simple magazine from September of LAST year.

A hugely pregnant woman got on the public/city bus just as the elastic in her granny panties gave way and fell to her ankles.  So she stepped out of them and kicked them out the still open bus door!!

OMG, hilarious, and brave for admitting it, too.  If I had seen someone do that, I would not have been able to control my laughter!!  Poor thing!!

one word:  melamine!!

baby boy born in china w/ 8 toes on each foot, 5 fingers on each hand, no thumbs!!  more here!

dispatcher:  911, can I help you?
caller:           *whimper*
dispatcher:  this is 911, what is your emergency?
caller:           *BARK!*

Rover, call me an ambulance — dog calls 911

dog, trained to do so, calls 911 when owner has a seizure.  it was the *third* time the dog had called!!  smart dog!!  police arrived in 3 minutes!!!

I'm going to have jack in the box for breakfast and then I'm going to bed!  Something about those tacos is irresistable!!  Plus, the stuffed jalapenos are actually hot, as in spicy, yum!!  I'll have a nutritious dinner tonight though, as is not junk food!!  heehee!

his name is YODA!!



more here

holy crap, in 4.5 hours (at exactly 10:46 am pacific time) I will be 40.  It's my birthday, but I'm still 39 for a few more hours!!  I'm pushing it as far as I can!!

update, since I'm here and haven't been updating:

I've been working in perinatal nursing since October of '06.  I bounced back and forth between postpartum and labor and delivery until May of this year at North Vista Hospital, when I got fired.  I don't want to talk about it.  Let me just say management at NVH sux!  Anyway, I got another *better* job a couple of weeks later at Summerlin Hospital, which is where Glenn works.  I now work *only* in L&D!!  no more floating/getting stuck in postpartum for me!!  So far the managers seem nice, and fair.  I'm making $8 more/hr.  Glenn got a referral bonus, and I got a sign-on bonus and a retention bonus.  Those bonuses will pay us about $3K between now and the next year.  I'll get about another $2k if I stay a whole second year, but am not planning on that. 

I am now in grad school.  At the end of next month I will be finishing my first year.  In december of NEXT year I will be finished, if all goes as planned, and will have my MSN/master's of science in nursing.  I will be able to take the tests for and obtain my licenses to become a CNM/certified nurse midwife as well as a WHNP/women's health nurse practitioner.  so that's why I haven't been too active on LJ.  maybe I'll try to update a little more often.  I'm usually up to my tits in books, papers, and exams, though!!

Glenn and I are planning to return to the SFBA at the end of next year, or VERY early 2010!!  I can't wait!!  especially since, for the 2nd time, I found a fucking scorpion in YES IN my house this am!!  soooo done with this desert!!

hope you are all well!!

so, one of hese days I'll actually update.  but not today!

Glenn and I will be in new york 18-25 june!

Glenn and I will be in san francisco wednesday 25 june to tuesday 01 july!

WHOO!!

more later!!

x-posted LJ/myspace!

tonight I made my travel plans.  I fly into oakland 730 pm on 02 april, a Wednesday; I’m renting a car.  I'll hang out in the SFBA til saturday, when I'll drive to Sacto til monday; then I come back to SF for one more night, and I fly out of oakland like 830 pm on tuesday 08 april.  Right now I have a reservation at the Cathedral Hill Hotel on Van Ness at Geary for Wednesday/Thursday/Friday nights the 2nd/3rd/4th.  Saturday and Sunday nights I am staying where we're having the nursing conference Sunday, Marriott Springhill Suites on Venture Oaks Way, exit 521 off the 5.  Monday the 7th I return to Cathedral Hill, which surprisingly was reasonable w/ internet rate: $91/room + $20/parking = $111/night.  Plus, I am planning to take cabs back and forth to clubs, and what I know of the city, this won't be ridiculously out of the way - but please help me w/ this if you know if someplace better that is safe (I’ll be alone), reasonable and "central" to clubs.  This is my club schedule!!:

Wednesday 2nd: Bondage-A-GoGo @ Glas Kat 520 Fourth St @ Bryant

Thursday 3rd: 1984 @ Cat Club 1190 folsom @ 8th

Friday 4th: Strangelove @ Cat Club 1190 folsom @ 8th

Saturday 5th: (sacto) Darkness @ Old Ironsides 1901-10^th (yes, I know I’m missing new wave city!  I want to go, but nursing conference is Sunday 2 pm!)

Sunday 6th: (sacto) The Asylum @ The Rage 1890 Arden Way

Monday 7th: duh, Death Guild! @ Glas Kat 520 Fourth St @ Bryant

tuesday, go back home to my real life!!

 

If anyone has any suggestions or you would like to join me or are planning to be at any of these events, PLEASE let me know.  And days are for visiting!!  Just not toooo early!!

 

See ya soon!!

hey san francisco friends!

I am going to be in the bay area around sunday 06 april.  not sure how many days before and after, but I need to be in sacramento that day.  planning my trip now, so PLEASE let me know what cool things are going on that weekend, and if you're available to do anything!  also, where a good safe reasonable-priced place to stay?

THANKS!!  can't wait to be there!!  can't wait to be back!!

I will be posting more in a day or two.  my life is finally back on track, so I can share without "gootching" it!!  WHOO!!

(X-posted)

yes, again!! need pet help in las vegas!

ok, so I'm going out of town.  going to new york!  yes, again!!  this time for 10 days!  15-25 August.  For my birthday!!  I have all my travel arrangements *except* the pet sitter! 

I need a petsitter/housesitter!! know of anyone? I need someone who comes and stays at my house. I have 4 cats and 2 dogs. the dogs can stand to be locked up for a maximum of 12 hours a day. I'd like them to have company 12 hours a day. or something!

If you know of any one, or I know you and you can help, please let me know.  BTW, this is a paying gig!!

and if you don't actually live in vegas, but have been thinking of visiting vegas, hey, free room!  plus, get paid to stay in vegas!  how cool would that be?!?!?

ok, so I'm going out of town.  going to new york!  yes, again!!  this time for 10 days!  15-25 August.  For my birthday!!  I have all my travel arrangements *except* the pet sitter! 

I need a petsitter/housesitter!! know of anyone? I prefer someone who comes and stays at my house. I have 4 cats and 2 dogs. the dogs can stand to be locked up for a maximum of 12 hours a day. I'd like them to have company 12 hours a day. or something!

If you know of any one, or I know you and you can help, please let me know.  BTW, this is a paying gig!!

and if you don't actually live in vegas, but have been thinking of visiting vegas, hey, free room!  plus, get paid to stay in vegas!  how cool would that be?!?!?

OMG, i hope this is parody/'spos to be as funny as it is!

just because it is soooo ridiculously bad, you have to go and see it! hover over anything to see the hand!!  ps, there's audio, so you might want your speakers on.  then again, you may be better of without the audio . . .

and it that's not enough, more!

ok, so I'm going out of town. going to new york for the first time! 9-14 may. I have all my travel arrangements *except* the pet sitter!

I need a petsitter/housesitter!! know of anyone? I prefer someone who comes and stays at my house. I have 4 cats and 2 dogs. the dogs can stand to be locked up for a maximum of 12 hours a day. I'd like them to have company 12 hours a day. or something!

If you know of any one, or I know you and you can help, please let me know. BTW, this is a paying gig!!

I *finally* got my collage! It was always broken every time I've tried before!!

( My Interests Collage! )

re:  possible SF trip - I re-assessed my finances.  It'd probably be better if I wait a while to take a trip, BOOOOO!

but any time I can work a sunday/monday/tuesday, have a week off, and then work thursday/friday/saturday of the following week,  I just better wait til I'm out of debt to take advantage of having that kind of time off in the middle.  i suppose. or something.  but, BOOOOO!!

I'm still vascillating, but common sense is telling me - no SF for now.

New Las Vegas Barbie Dolls!!



"Summerlin Barbie"
This princess Barbie is sold only at Boca Park . She comes with an assortment of Kate Spade Handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired foreign dog named Honey and a cookie-cutter house. Available with or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic Ken sold only in conjunction with the augmented version.



"North West Barbie"
The modern day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Wind star Minivan and matching gym outfit. She gets lost easily and has no full-time occupation. Traffic jamming cell phone sold separately.



"Nor Town Barbie"
This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, a Ray Lewis knife, a Chevy with dark tinted windows, and a Meth Lab Kit. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking about.



"Green Valley Barbie"
This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or Hummer H2. Included are her own Starbucks cup, credit card and country club membership. Also available for this set are Shallow Ken and Private School Skipper. You won't be able to afford any of them.



"Hendertucky Barbie"
This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a NASCAR t-shirt and tweety bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Bud light and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired Ken's butt when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free.



"Las Vegas Strip Barbie"
This collagen injected, rhino plastic Barbie wears a leopard print outfit and drinks cosmopolitans while entertaining friends. Percocet prescription available as well as newly built high rise condo.



"Pahrump Barbie"
This tobacco-chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own
high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased beer-gutted Ken out of Butler Barbie's house. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, and a see-through halter-top. Also available with a mobile home.



"Reno Barbie"
This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair,
arch-less feet, hairy armpits, no makeup and Birkenstocks with white socks. She prefers that you call her Willow. She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase two Reno Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free.



"Bonanza Barbie"
This Barbie now comes with a stroller and 2 infant dolls. Optional accessories include a GED and bus pass. White boy Gangsta Ken and his 1979 Caddy were available, but are now very
difficult to find since the addition of the infant.



"Tahoe Barbie"
She's perfect in every way. We don't know where Ken is because he's always out a-'huntin'.



"Larry's Villa Barbie/Ken"
This versatile doll can be easily converted from Barbie to Ken by simply adding or subtracting the multiple snap-on

heeheehee!  It's snowing!!  and I took pictures, but my computer has decided to not download them!!  TO go over to GLENN'S LJ for piccies!!  I'll try again later!!

from Michelle!

so, I was meant to post this in August! But I suck!! See, at my burlesque show last August, Burlesque Birthday Bash, it was actually my birthday. And as a present my very very special and sweet friend Michelle made me this beautiful painting. Isn't it gorgeous?!! AND I had just walked in to the place, over an hour later than I expected to, to find 200+ people waiting for it to be midnight and for my performance. OK, I was expecting 100-150 people.  I was way stressed because I was running late, although the show wasn't starting for like 30 minutes. Anyway, I was rude and unappriciative when I received this fabulous gift. SO: MICHELLE!! I AM SORRY!! I REALLLLLLY REALLLLLLY LOVE IT! You are so important to me and I'm so glad we are friends! Hugs and Kisses!!

what was that I said about maybe posting more now that I have a job and a life and stuff to write about?!  heeheehee!

BTW, chances are I still read you - I just am not able to comment much!  Right now I am 7-8 days behind in LJ!  Hope to catch up this weekend, unless I decide to have a life and go out!

anyway, the new job is going really well.  I'm happy there!  it's a ghetto hospital in the ghetto part of town.  but I like it!  it's been interesting!  and oooooh, soon I'll be insured again!  Wow!

Burlesque is going well, too!  I had a show 03 November, and then an encore presentation this past Monday night.  Burlesque has seriously been one of the best things to ever happen to me!  I am loving it.  Looks like my NEXT show will be 05 January!!  And the person who's making my costume totally KICKS ASS!  YAY!!

there's an important entry I've been needing to write since August!  so maybe soon!!

I'm happy because last night at the club I got some good news and something happy happened!  And that's all I'm sayin' 'bout that!  For now!

Ooh, I promised news, and then I lied and never fessed up.  However, I guess no one really noticed because my readership is way down.  Maybe because I never update?  Hmmmm.  well, that's partially because I am just lazy, and partially because I was waiting for news to share.  Then there was news!  And I got lazy!  Well, I've been kind-of busy. 

OK, so, as some of you may know, I graduated from nursing school in December of '99, took and passed my boards early in 2000, finished an RN refresher course earlier this year, and have been (finally) working as an RN since July.  I had been working for Maxim, as as agency nurse.  They mostly, almost exclusively, were sending me to the state psychiatric hospital.  They couldn't send me to a "real" hospital because you need a year of experience to go to the hospitals!  Nope, not over here!!  Also not helping was the fact that they were only calling me to work an average of about 2x/week.  This was paying the bills - barely!  But just not getting me very far. 

See, my plan is to go back to school and get my master's and become a certified nurse midwife.  Well, I am a little closer to my plan because I got a REAL job!!  In a REAL hospital!!  And I start today!!  I will be working night shifts, 12.5 hour shifts, 3x/week.  I work 7 pm to 7:30 am.  That's right!  Starting tonight!!  WHOO!!  AND it's in OB!!  They are starting me in post-partum, and in 6 months I move to Labor and Delivery!!  EEEEEEEEE!!  I'm VERY excited!  And a little bit scared.  Like nervous, but in the good way.  I'll let you know more, but not 'til Thursday.  I won't be on my computer 'til Thursday.  Working 12.5 hours plus commuting both ways for a good 1.5 hours only leaves 10 hours a day for sleeping and eating and bathing and the like.  Yah, no time for LJ!!  Aaaaaah!  Perish the thought!!  Plus the 1st 3 months are going to be busy because the hospital is requiring me to do a bunchabuncha online courses.  AND I need to take some classes to learn special types of CPR, to put it really basically.  I'll also be busy going to see doctors and chiropractors and the like.  WOW!  Health insurance!  It's quite literally been just under 4 YEARS since I've had health insurance!  What a luxury, ehh?!?

Also, burlesque is going very well - oooooh, and look at my page; I pretified it see!  Anyway, I performed last sunday, at the same club I performed at for my birthday.  But this was a different crowd - sunday night is service industry night; before I performed on a friday, which is the Goth/Industrial night.  I am also performing with Sin CIty Grind Kittens at the BIG Fetish and Fantasy Ball !  Which is kinda a pretty big deal - I'll be in 2 group numbers, and in the small room will be performing (I'm told) for approximately 200 people, and in the big room approximately 600 people.  HOLY SHITE!  That's a whole lotta mother fuckers!!  I'm super excited!  THEN not this but neeeeeeeext friday, the 3rd of November, I am performing at Krave for my fellow Goth/Industrial friends AGAIN!  YAY!  I've whipped up a new number - it's HALLOWEEN themed!!  YAY!!  It's gunna RAWK!!

So who still reads this anyway? 

Well, I'll probably be updating more often, even though I'll have technically less time, because, HEY!  I'll actually have stuff to talk about!

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH!!

it's that time of year again!!!!!

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
b_d_s_monkey goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Cherry Cheesecake.
agentubel gives you 2 white vanilla-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
glembe gives you 2 pink cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
gothkitten7 tricks you! You lose 3 pieces of candy!
hurricane_amy tricks you! You get a wet rag.
jloopy tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
leggylady gives you 5 milky white lime-flavoured jawbreakers.
mourgie gives you 2 light orange watermelon-flavoured wafers.
nurse_glitch gives you 10 light yellow lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
starscream242 tricks you! You get a toothbrush.
xelyn gives you 15 dark green blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
b_d_s_monkey ends up with 33 pieces of candy, a wet rag, a toothbrush, and a toothbrush.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

I took this peekture today!  heeheehee, so CUTE!  I will soonly be posting a real update because I have lots of news, great news!!  YAY!  But not 2nite because I'm tired and I have a headache!  Probably tomorrow!!

Puddin gets lei'd

hahaha, I just found this old picture on my computer!  RAWK!!  we were just talking about benihana's at dinner w/ friends monday night!  whoo!  this was riiiight after I cut/donated my hair in October of 2004!  I guess it has grown!  also, I've been a little busy, and have been trying to keep up w/ LJ.  I'm *only* about 150 entries behind right now!  And I have been reading, just not commenting much!  well, more later!!

benihana

HAPPY BIRTHDAY jake_n_katy !! 

cute kitty video!  with doggies too! 

EDITED TO ADD . . .

If you liked Burlesque at KRAVE, or maybe you missed it altogether, good news! Encore encore!

We will be having an encore presentation of last Friday's show next Monday at the Attik at Barcode! See their myspace

Lou Lou and I will be performing the same acts in the same order. We go on shortly after midnight-ish. This time our MC will be Travis! And for my solo act I'll be sportin' different pasties! But I'll still make those tassles twirl! YAY!!

Hope to see you there!


*We now return you to the original LJ message!  posted last saturday 19 August!*

I stripped on the (las vegas) strip!  At the Krave Lounge at the Aladdin!

OMG!  I am beyond overwhelmed!  There were soooo many people at my show last night!!!  On an average night there are 150 people that come to the club.  Last night right at the end of the show doors were about 225!  Plus there's a bunch of people that work there!  And a few people came over from the other/main side to watch!  And they all sang happy birthday to me!  WOW, what an experience!  It went really well too!  I went for comedy, and people laughed!  And screamed!  And applauded!  It was the best!  I'm realllllly liking performing!  But haha, check out my battle scar, the lovely bruise on my arm!  I probably should have covered it with concealer, but I felt like sharing!  During dress rehersal as I was coming off the stage I thought there were 2 stairs.  But there were 3!  So I fell down the last stair and bumped myself on the wooden railing, and scraped up my side a little too!    Before we went on last night people kept telling me "break a leg!" and I was all, "no, don't say that, I might because of what happened at dress rehersal!"  Anyway, here's one of my fav pics from my 2nd set . . . click here if you want to see all the pics!

tonight!  macaroni grill with friends!  YAY  today is my actual birthday!!

I stripped on the (las vegas) strip!  At the Krave Lounge at the Aladdin!

OMG!  I am beyond overwhelmed!  There were soooo many people at my show last night!!!  On an average night there are 150 people that come to the club.  Last night right at the end of the show doors were about 225!  Plus there's a bunch of people that work there!  And a few people came over from the other/main side to watch!  And they all sang happy birthday to me!  WOW, what an experience!  It went really well too!  I went for comedy, and people laughed!  And screamed!  And applauded!  It was the best!  I'm realllllly liking performing!  But haha, check out my battle scar, the lovely bruise on my arm!  I probably should have covered it with concealer, but I felt like sharing!  During dress rehersal as I was coming off the stage I thought there were 2 stairs.  But there were 3!  So I fell down the last stair and bumped myself on the wooden railing, and scraped up my side a little too!    Before we went on last night people kept telling me "break a leg!" and I was all, "no, don't say that, I might because of what happened at dress rehersal!"  Anyway, here's one of my fav pics from my 2nd set . . . click here if you want to see all the pics!

tonight!  macaroni grill with friends!  YAY  today is my actual birthday!!

so I worked alot last week.  and this week I'm busy preparing for my show.  things have been a little hectic, but good.  anyway, I am very behind on LJ - the last entry I read was posted the 6th of August at 312 am!  I may not be catching up, and just jumping forward, especially since it'll be after the weekend before I can have the time to sit down at my computer and just screw around!!  tomorrow I have a job inter view, then it's home to reherse reherse reherse!  then thursday, more reheresing, with Dress Rehersal at 10 pm!  Friday of course is the big show!!!!!!!  Wheeeeee!  Saturday is my birthday and dinner at Macaroni Grill, and sunday I'm working cuz I've been hemorraging money!  Being a glamour-puss is hard expensive work, ya'know!!

OH!  and I have an encore presentation of my show already booked at another club!  I'll be performing again on 28 August!!  YAY!!

Anyway, I'm tired and hungry, so I'm gunna go!

In case you missed it over the weekend!

WHOO-HOO!

The club made my flyers!  I'm dying!  I can't wait!!

Expect to see this again in a few days!


(X-posted to LV communities!)

hahahahaha!  more kitty goodness!  clicky!!

OMGOMGOMG!  Finally I have pics of my burlesque performance!!  (psssst, there's 2 pages!)  ButWaitThere'sMore!!  I'm performing again!  It's my solo debut!  On the Las Vegas Strip!  For my BIRTHDAY!!  WOW!!  Can you believe?!!  I can barely believe it!!

I made an event on myspace, here  anyone w/ a myspace can RSVP, or even just make comments!!

If you can't access the invide, deets:

Posted By:
caryn/cherry cheesecake

Hosted By::
caryn cherry cheesecake

When:
Friday Aug 18, 2006
at 10:00 PM

Where::
Krave Lounge at Aladdin Resort
Harmon at Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89101
US
View Map

Come see Miss Cherry Cheesecake's solo burlesque debut, on the Las Vegas Strip! She will be performing with Miss Lou Lou Roxy!!

The much anticipated event is finally happening! Come out to Sanctuary like you always do, and enjoy some burlesque!

http://www.myspace.com/sanctuarylasvegas

This event will be updated once flyers are available!!

and can I just say, OMG!!

so when there's an actual flyer, I'll share!  and here's my new favorite picture:

I wrote this almost a week ago, but then my internet broke!  and then I worked!  and then I worked a double (my first!).  and then it was the weekend and I got busy!  soooo, here, finally, is an update!!  WHOO!

okOkOK, so much news!

Glenn was out of town from Thursday am to Sunday night, and so much exciting stuff happened, and he wasn't here to share!!  BOO!!  But I lived!

A couple of weeks ago I got a job - kind-of.  It's not  hospital job.  I'm signed up w/ some agencies so I can work per diem until I get a hospital job.  There are noNoNO benefits, but that means it pays a little more.  Or it would if they would regularly send me out on assignments!!

But I DID finally have my first ever paid shift an as RN!  WOW!!  It was exciting!  It was at Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health, last Thursday.  3 pm to 11:30 pm.  Alllllll I did was pass meds.  And I was insanely crazy busy, no pun intended!  20 patients, charge nurse, and new nurse Caryn, sooooo bewildered and confused!!  I didn't take any breaks, not even bathroom breaks, BUT I did leave on time, so I'm pretty damn impressed with myself!!  WHOO!!

BTW, Here's a link to pics from the new (last night was 3rd week) club I went to last night!  FUN!  It was medical theme night!  About 7? of us dressed up!  Heeheehee!  'Twas EZ for me!  More here

Back to the weekend: OK, so, as I posted here, I had my Burlesque debut last Saturday!!!!  There were two 2-minute songs, one of which I don't know the name of, the other was "Drive-In".  There will be forthcoming photos and video of my performance!  FINALLY!  Something for my website!  (Hey JC/xelyn, finally need your help; still up for it, or too busy?  Let me know please!!)  Anyway, as soon as I have the photos and videos, I will share!  PROMISE!

OK, and BTW, I didn't drink (alcohol) at all - stone-cold SOBER!  Yup, me n my 25-pounds-overweight-ass went up on stage and shook it!  One of the first things was my fuckin' wig fell off (see icon)!  AAAAAAGH!  But apparently some people thought this was part of the act!  Hahaha!  Cuz I just put it right back on!!  I went down to pasties and g-string (plus had stockings/garter belt on)!  Afterwords I had trouble remembering details because I was so nervous and excited!  After we performed it at Take 1 Nightclub, the party moved over to The Bunkhouse, where we performed it again!  This time the music fucked-up!  Nobody but us knew the difference though!!  Heeheehee!  I wasn't as nervous, and know I did a better performance, but still am having trouble remembering details!  After that I went over to Aruba and saw my friends, and I was still so amped up I was bouncing off the fuckin' walls! Ask Barnaby! 

What I do remember (both performances): twirling my tassles like CRAZY!  WHOO!  OMG, so fun!

OK, so these are the 2 pics I can share for now!

LOOK!  these pasties have actually been used!  (see ring of spirit gum)


LOOK!  this is all I was wearing on stage!!  YAY!  GO me!

This is crossposted to communities and my myspace blog and bulletins.

I am very very upset right now.  I think I just almost got attacked, Pirate-style.  Despite my use of the term “attacked Pirate-style”, I am unfortunately not joking.  I am referring to the local roller derby girl who was attacked about 3 weeks ago at a Smith’s parking lot.  That’s her name, right?  Here’s what happened to me.  Well, first off, NOTHING happened to me, but well, read on.  So I went to Food 4 Less, the one on Green Valley Pkwy in Henderson.  The cross street is Warm Springs.  I was alone.  I got there at 1 am, did big shopping, and was leaving at 3 am.  They asked me if I wanted help out to my car, and I said yes, just so I wouldn’t be alone.  I wasn’t even thinking about Pirate.  So they sent one of the stockers over to me, and we proceeded outside.  He happened to be somewhat of a big guy, but not huge and hulking.  Just outside the exit doors were 3 youngish guys.  I didn’t look really close at them, at all.  They were MAYBE 18-22???  But there were 3 of them.  The Food 4 Less guy and I come out and go to my car.  The 3 guys stayed by the front of the store for a few minutes, and then went to their car and stayed by their car for a few minutes.  The Food 4 Less guy thought it was weird that they were just hanging out in front of the store and parking lot, and said he was going to tell his boss.  Then the 3 guys got in their car and then finally decided to drive away.  It was a black Honda-civic-esque hatchback.  The whole time the Food 4 Less guy and I are loading my trunk.  So they guys slowllllllllllly drive to the side of the store, toward the back of the store.  The car was “riced-out” so I could hear the exhaust.  They were going realllllly slowly.  So we finish putting stuff in my car, I get in my car, guy goes back in store, and I drive away passing the front of the store.  As I get a few stores down but still same side of the shopping center, just a few stores down, there is a car coming toward me.  It has yellow headlights.  As I come closer, I realize it is the same car.  They have driven almost completely around the back of the parking lot and are headed directly back to the front of Food 4 Less.  WHY the FUCK were they still there?!  Why did they need to go back?!!  I got reallllly scared and drive away as fast as I could.  When I got home I called the store to find out the name of the guy who helped me to my car, and to tell him the guys were going back to the front of the store, but there was no answer.  Then I called 311 and told the police all of what I just told you, mentioning the case of Pirate.  Very very scary.  I really wonder if it was the guys who attacked Pirate, and if I was almost next.  BOO.  That was not fun.

At least I feel a little better talking about it.

OMG!  so CUTE!!  "And look out, cuz here comes StegoPuss!""  AHHHH!!  Hahahahaha!   ACTION CATS!

like burlesque?  come out and see me get almost naked in public for the FIRST TIME as I debut my much anticipated and talked about burlesque act - it's a duo act with my friend Lou Lou Roxy of the Sin City Grind Kittens!!  OMG!  can you believe?!!

Take 1 Nightclub, 707 Fremont, ~1 block up from Beauty Bar!
$10 cover, because it's a benefit show for Satan's Angel!
Doors at 5, show over by 10 because the club accidently double-booked!!  The party will then move over to the bunkhouse, 11th and Fremont!!

Hope to see you there!!

Flyer:  http://badattitude.com/Information/Events.html

Kisses!

  ~  Caryn/Cherry Cheesecake

(wow, what a week; I become a real nurse and a real burlesque performer all in 3 days!!)

note to self:

green tea has caffeine!  OOPS!

a penis cozy!  click to enlarge?!

. . . since this is what I usually order!

You Are Sex On the Beach

When comes to drinking, you like it to go down smooth. You really don't like the taste of alcohol - just its effect on you. So, you're proud to get drunk on fruity, girly drinks. Because once you're liquored up, the fun begins!

so, geezie, we have *another* goth-ish club starting here monday (SEE!)!  YAY!  they posted on their myspace blog for people to post their top 10!  Here are my results; seemed like a fun thing to share!!

my top 10, err 12!  (I *tried*!  I could only get it down to 12!!)
1.  camoflage - the great commandment
2.  shriekback - nemesis
3.  tones on tail - go!
4.  ministry - everyday is halloween (overplayed, I know, but, still)
5.  time zone - world destruction
6.  CCCP - american soviets
7.  skinny puppy - inquisition
8.  nitzer ebb - join in the chant
9.  front 242 - welcome to paradise (no sex until marriage)
10.  front 242 - headhunter (yes 2 front 242! chutup! I couldn't decide!)
11.  my life with the thrill kill kult - the days of swine and roses
12.  the cure - a few hours after thi