if you haven't heard, i lost a lot of entries for pure-essence.net due to a bad host. pretty much everything from Jan 2006 - to present has been lost. but yesterday i got an email from a kind visitor named Alberto L. who said he's got my entries saved in his feed reader. then he sent me what's in there. so i got my entries from dec 2006 to may 2007. that's just AWESOME!! thank you!!

i got here early to turn in my resignation letter this morning. i'm getting a new job offer and gives me a 60% raise from what i currently make. i didn't think twice about it. but it does involve having my family move to a city that's two hours of drive away from where i currently live. i thought everything is going to move as planned until i tried to turn in my resignation letter this morning and my boss wants to make a counter offer. he doesn't know how much he can counter offer coz he needs to talk to his superiors. but i seriously did not think this was gonna happen. now that just complicates everything and i have to consider a different possibility. i know i should be happy but i'm really freaked out right now.

i took this from someone's blog. just so shocked.

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We drove to Oceanside after and saw the MOST INSANE accident I have ever seen in my life. On the other side of the freeway, a big-rig truck had smashed into an SUV and a few other cars were involved, too. Cars were on fire … twisted like pretzels … airbags and bodies everywhere. It had just happened because the cops weren’t even there yet. I read about it later and found out some little kids died. Sad.

The traffic stopped to a crawl and we crept along in the slow lane. Some idiot in a white truck with beer stickers all over it decided it would be a bright idea to drive about 75mph on the shoulder of the freeway, so that he could pass all the stop-and-go traffic. That’s when it happened … the truck smacked into a pedestrian in a hot pink shirt. The victim went flying up and smashed onto the ground RIGHT NEXT TO MY CAR and cracked open like a melon. Lots of people pulled over (witnesses) so I didn’t bother. But oh wow ... I’ve seen dead bodies before but never anything as grotesque as this. There were brains and innards scattered EVERYWHERE ... the guy looked like he had exploded. The white truck was bathed in blood … bathed. Poor Mark almost threw up but I found it ... oddly fascinating. This may sound morbid or strange but I get more upset when I see cats hurt than people ... lol. We even saw an eyeball lying there on the pavement. AN EYEBALL.
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cute cute cute

NAME THE PANDAS!!

WOW amazing

this country needs some SERIOUS math education? @_@

The Mini Pet Tree is pretty much an organic, real-life version of a Tamagotchi - though they aren't little critters. Pet trees can be attached to your key ring or your mobile phone and you have to feed and care for them until they are big enough to be set free.
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this is so cool :)
the parrot not only speaks human lanugage (english) it converses with you.
listen to this

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this cat is very good at massaging. check it out.