Chicana on the Edge

Imagine you've finally reached the income level you've dreamed of. After working hard and keeping your life goals in sight, you're finally going to build the house of your dreams and drive the car of your dreams and settle into the community of your choice. Life will...

Feeling pulled in different directions these days. Want to blog about real things like global warming and sex, but personal life is getting in way (boyfriend on the way out?). Work going well, starting to feel financially solvent, really like new restaurant/co-workers...

I just sent a letter to my lawmakers, Representative Jan Schakowsky, Senator Barack Obama and Senator Dick Durbin. Remember a few months ago when rogue pharmacists were refusing to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills because their “religious” beliefs prevented...

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When I was 20 I left a movie theater with a very nauseated feeling. It could easily have been the movie (Michael J. Jox's Secret of My Success), but ever since then a kind of motion sickness makes sitting in any movie theater a struggle to keep from throwing up (and...

Today - third day of training. On second day, big allergy pill took care of hayfever symptoms, but then cold symptoms became obvious and continued to f$%* up my ability to taste. Chinese restaurant chicken soup did pretty good job of knocking out those symptoms, and...

Training Schedule: 8:00 a.m. til 4:00 p.m. today, Wed, Thurs, Fri and next Monday.Excellent part: cool people, non-scary general manager, district supervisor everyone obviously loves, teamwork, wonderfully detailed training (5 days of it, eight hours a day!), great...

1. My new SERVER job at a downtown, corporate restaurant starts tomorrow.2. The against-all-odds relationship with my new boyfriend (boyfriend) is almost five months old.3. Today I weigh 124 lbs and have reached my first weightloss goal.My life finally doesn't suck!...

Last month I was making some copies at a UPS store. It was a sunny, warm day so I had taken off my sweater and was feeling relaxed in a pair of black, elastic-topped slacks and a tucked-in pink cotton shirt. The Latino guy at the cash register couldn't have been more...

Before this fat-under-siege plan I was probably eating between 2200 and 2400 calories a day (I'm 5 feet, 2 inches).Motivation: Last summer's shorts and jeans no longer fit!5/1/06 Weight: 130Daily Calorie Goal: 1900 (maximum I allowed myself)Daily Exercise: 40-50...

...so when my boyfriend invited me to come with him and some friends this Monday to a White Sox game, I was non-plussed. I'm more of a Cubs supporter, but I figured why not see the Sox? I like the people who are going and it'll be fun to hang out.Today it hit me:...

I want to be excited. I want to be relieved. I want to be proud. I have found my new job!But my employment has been so F#$%-ED for the past six months all I can manage is a weary, tentative feeling of gladness. I wonder, will this job fall through, too? It's a...