So yesterday we were talking about movies at lunch. I mentioned that my roomates had seen Oceans 13 and loved it. Danny was skeptical about it. I told him that I liked the second one, and then he proceeded to lecture me on why I shouldn't like it. Ok, whatever, how about another movie, Spiderman. Oh no, unacceptable for entertainment. Hmmm, how about Pirates, I kind of liked that one. Oh no, it was to long, i'm not allowed to like johnny depp, etc. etc. so I tried to change subjects, "So how bout the weather?" "Shrek was good." It reminded me of many discussions I, and other people, have had with jeff, sometimes he'll tell you what your opinion is, and Holy Crap is it annoying! So I can't talk movies with him anymore.
At work Danny and I went to a project site. We're re-doing an condo in Century City. This condo penthouse is on the 28th floor of a high rise. One of the two white ones on pico and Ave. of the Stars. 'Wow!' for two reasons: first, Holy 70's flashback! the shag carpet was at least two inches long, and bright yellow. no, brighter that what you're imagining right now, i'm serious. Some of it was sun faded but where the furnature was, BAM! It punched your eye balls, thats for sure. The wall paper also matched the era. By looking at this three bedroom palace it
didn't appear to have had occupants since the late 70's or 80's. I mean after all, the master bedroom was as big as my living room, and the 16' high ceilings would be annoying to have as well. And Second, we were on the 28th floor, on the south end of Century city. The views were amazing. The windows faced north and east. It was somewhat overcast, so at the time I couldn't see that far, but I could still tell that it was amazing. The owner, who only sent his representitive, was way to busy(rich) to come for assisting us lowly architects. But whatever, I'm sure you're busy when you own things like The Peninsula Hotel. It was quite impressive.
I went running last night. I was trying to talk myself out of it for a minute, but I just couldn't resist. The evening sky was an inspiration. As I pulled up to my usual spot at Brentwood, I felt like I had just entered a new land of van gogh and Monet. The sky was painted many shades of reds and yellows in front of me while the sky above shifted to blues and grays, then faded to a dark twinkling blue behind me. It reminded me of my very own Starry Night painting. Every few seconds a star would wink at me, and then a tree root or tree branch would remind me to watch where I was going. The twilight sky was painted salmon and peach, dobbed with fluttering yellow highlights. Breath taking. Shadow creatures, the new danger, would leap out
from behind trees or poles, run by me, and then vanish back into the shadow from whence they came. This happened repeatedly. Annoying creatures. They were probably with the stalker dude that is always by the school. I started out slow, then rose to the occsion. I was like an elderly lion, both talented and experienced, yet still strong and ready to kill the closest zebra or antelope. My paws were talented and fearce, but they took their time when it came to a leisurly
stroll around the jungle track. There were not a whole lot of people there this night. Three guys and eleven girls. I passed them all. Three bicyclists passed me toward the end, but they don't count. Most were going in the opposite direction. My final time was 18:24. Not my best thats for sure. I was slow the whole way around. I just wansnt' feeling it today.
My car is kaput! I was driving around Westwood a little later in the evening, trying to find a place to eat, when all of a sudden it was like a science experiment under the hood of my car. Smoke flaired up, accompanied by a low fizzing sound, and it was hard to see past the front of my car. There was so much smoke comming out from under the hood! Not a good thing. I was convinced it almost blew up. I was trying to make a hurried turn into a small parking lot, but the oncomming traffic kept comming, and I kept nudging out further an further. finally a break in cars, and I dove to safety. It took a while for it to cool down. I thought it was the
coolant, but when I checked it was full. So then I got even more nervous. I had to tell the others that I wasn't about to drive any further than I had to, so they'd have to walk home. But they were ok with it sense I thought it was going to blow up. I barley made it home before it happened again. I brought it in first thing in the morning and they'll make it all better.
I painted most of the night away. I also fought the Battle of my Life. I only conqured one planetary system, and fought two space battles, and led the attack on the rebel base on a distant planet one time. They are no match for me. During lunch today Danny kept wanting to talk about movies, and I kept wanting to check out chicks, but he needed my attention to tell me what to like. I saw Miss Westwood today. She was wearing purple.
I'm listening to Bon Jovi right now.
Lunch was sponsored by Marvins.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Daily Update
For FHE we had Bro&Sis Stout give a 'mini-institute' lesson. It was nice. they spoke on the Temple. But that quickly turned into a dating/sex/chastity/tv on sundays lesson. They did a good job. I felt it necessary to make comments on occasion (no one else was). At first they were kind of helpful and informative. After all I know quite a bit about human pshychology, communication skills, and religious stuff. Then they started talking about Sex and Chastity, it got funny when she was hoping not to embarass anyone, but I assured them that they could go
'lots' further if they wanted before offense was taken. The only part I didn't like is when they were preaching about not watching TV. some people don't watch on sundays, but they were pushing their don't watch for a month idea. But I assured them that i would never turn my 'Teacher' off.
After words we went to In N Out. It was the same as it always was, just later at night. Jeremy almost had to leap over the counter and start putting peoples hands thru the French Fry slicer after they were rude to him about not having his, and a few other of ours, orders ready, for a LONG time. I sat at a table with Danny Koontz, Allana, and Cynthia, so there was PLENTY to talk about the whole time, yet entertaining as well.
We then went to Diddy Reese for a night cap. We ran into Eric and Jim, my roomates, while in line. I was funny, and everyone else around us didn't know that we knew eachother. I didn't eat anthing this time, otherwise it would have been two times in one day at Diddy. Thats pushing it for Jims Healthiness levels.
And if it wasn't late enough, Josh called as we were winding down, just to rejuvinate the evening. He and a friend were watching 'Constantine' at his place. Movie at Josh's. His friend could text message people faster than anything I've ever seen before! It was quicker than I type, and I use 9 fingers and they were using typically one thumb! It was intense. Then we all started talking 'foreign food' and 'mission' stories, then I noticed I had missed my bedtime by 89 minutes. So I left.
I'm listening to Alice in Chains right now, and I'm not loving it to much. I hope this song is over soon.
Lunch was sponsored by the Hawaiian BBQ place.
'lots' further if they wanted before offense was taken. The only part I didn't like is when they were preaching about not watching TV. some people don't watch on sundays, but they were pushing their don't watch for a month idea. But I assured them that i would never turn my 'Teacher' off.
After words we went to In N Out. It was the same as it always was, just later at night. Jeremy almost had to leap over the counter and start putting peoples hands thru the French Fry slicer after they were rude to him about not having his, and a few other of ours, orders ready, for a LONG time. I sat at a table with Danny Koontz, Allana, and Cynthia, so there was PLENTY to talk about the whole time, yet entertaining as well.
We then went to Diddy Reese for a night cap. We ran into Eric and Jim, my roomates, while in line. I was funny, and everyone else around us didn't know that we knew eachother. I didn't eat anthing this time, otherwise it would have been two times in one day at Diddy. Thats pushing it for Jims Healthiness levels.
And if it wasn't late enough, Josh called as we were winding down, just to rejuvinate the evening. He and a friend were watching 'Constantine' at his place. Movie at Josh's. His friend could text message people faster than anything I've ever seen before! It was quicker than I type, and I use 9 fingers and they were using typically one thumb! It was intense. Then we all started talking 'foreign food' and 'mission' stories, then I noticed I had missed my bedtime by 89 minutes. So I left.
I'm listening to Alice in Chains right now, and I'm not loving it to much. I hope this song is over soon.
Lunch was sponsored by the Hawaiian BBQ place.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Daily Update
Friday Night. It was Harry Potter night. Lots of 'build-up' to this evening inside the J-crew. At work, they kind of ushered us out early, around 6 o'clock. What a nice surprise, no staying late tonight. Turns out that the bosses also like to go home sometimes. Josh had called from Jeff's house, so I went right over there after work. When I got there, no one else was there. No one at all, except josh. No one had been there all day except josh. So if you ever need a place to hang out during the day. But when jeff got there we decided to go and get 'Supper' (or 'Dinner' for those of you who don't speak 'Nor-Cal'). It didn't take us more than 15 seconds to decide if we needed to go and find food; its just that it did take us 35 minutes to deliberate on what the options were, and where we should go. Finally by the end of the 35 minutes, I decide to go and get in my car and drive around until we find somewhere, and of course they followed. The first place I stop at, got vetoed. Same with the second. I reminded them of the time, 7:45, and of our 8 o'clock appointment at Selby. So we just ran over to Smart N' Final to buy bulk goods for the Harry Potter event. (taquitos, root beer floats, and cookies)!
The Selby Theater was great fun. There was lots of treats/'dinner for jim' there. Upon arriving Jeff went right to the kitchen, Josh straight to the couch, and me straight to the TV, our usual places. I was happy to arrive in part to be rid of the verbal harassment that was taking place in the car. They still hadn't gotten over the events from previous nights. The movie was nice. Next week we're doing it on Saturday evening, in case any of you want to make it.
On Saturday we had our Temple excursion, a year in the making. It was lovely. After which a bunch of us went to Johnny's Pizza. Rick came. He was analyzing everything. Its his job after all. I tried suggesting to him 'not to bring his work home with him', but he was to busy studying my speech patterns and tone of voice to actually listen. I was also there, and mistakenly wore a white shirt. I got the chicken Parmesan. It was soaking in both thick and super runny tomato sauce, all at the same time. With every turn of my fork, the sauce splattered somewhere, whether it be on the wall, a neighbor, or myself. So walking away from a nice meal, my shirt now looked like I had a food fight with myself.
After lunch, we adjourned for a few minutes and met up back at my place to watch a movie or to do something exciting on a Saturday night. Then at my place, It was funny cause some people found their spot in front of the TV, and some around the table talking. There was a bunch of people over. Catherine was with us, and Jeff and I started planning HER trip to Europe, with her there of course. It was fun for us. Finally after an hour or so of not deciding on what to do (to many people to make a decision), Kristen announced that she was getting ice cream. That must have been the Word of the Day cause in unison, everyone else at the same time also stood and started making their way to the door. Its just that when everyone got to the door, every person there wanted to go to a different ice cream shoppe. So more deliberation had to take place. But eventually people started aggreeing one one of two stores. The healthy people decided to visit Big Chill frozen yogurt, and the exciting people went to Cold Stone. Mmmm! It was so good. Getting there was a chore, cause I had 3 backseat drivers in my car. We parked at the Westside Pavillion, and on the way out, we were looking for the stair to the roof, and some lady said there wasn't any. So I had to argue with her about it, because there MUST be by law! At the same time there was an old couple asking me questions about the Ice Cream I was so thourougly enjoying. They wanted to hang out with us, but there was no room in my car. So I now feel its necessary to write a letter to the city Building Department and complain about this extremly illegal, and deadly, fire hazard. It was also opening day of this building as well, Brand-newly remodeled.
After the great Ice cream adventure we watched 'Paycheck' at my place, and just hung out. It was nice.
On Sunday morning I woke up and my clock told me it was 9:30. "Oh that's great" I exclaimed. I don't feel tired, and I have time to do lots of my typical weekend chores. Upon sitting up and taking a second look, at my alarm clock, it told me it was 10:30! My satellite clock had lied to me. the one who should set itself! we exchanged words for a minutes, and then I had to leave the room. So, I didn't have time to frolic on the beach for a little while, so I decided to continue Fighting the Battle of My Life until it was time for church. This morning I defended the Galaxy from rebel invasion, and tried to restore imperial rule and order to the outlying planetary systems. I commanded my space fleets admirablly. I've begun to amass a large force to send into the heat of battle on the northern most systems. I only fought the space battle. The rebels threatened one of my space stations at one point, the next time I play that game, I will be sure to punish them for their insurection. I will make them bow before me! Then I ran off to church.
Church was nice. Lots of new people. Enchilada's afterwards. I wore a wonderful dark blue shirt accented by a darker bronze patterned tie. I didn't want that beautiful effect to be drowned out by light pants, so I wore charcoal slacks by Claiborne, and by black shoes.
After church the boys and I decided to arrive early to Trisha's b-day bash and make our dinner there. After all, they're the ones with the Barbecue. The food was good. The company was lovely. We watched the Best of Will Ferrell randomly between eating and talking. Then ate more food. Then by the end of the night we played Scatagories for a while. Josh was the time keeper, and to signify that time was up, he would shoot people in 'inapropriate places' (both guys and girls) with a nerf gun, while they were standing in front of the group. By the end of the night it got a little out of hand. Then after sitting around for a while, I realized it was past my bed time.
I hope I didn't leave anything out. If so, I'll amment it tomorrow. Work was a slow-busy today.
Lunch was sponsored by Socko's sandwitch shop.
I'm listening to Social Distorion right now, "story of my life".
The Selby Theater was great fun. There was lots of treats/'dinner for jim' there. Upon arriving Jeff went right to the kitchen, Josh straight to the couch, and me straight to the TV, our usual places. I was happy to arrive in part to be rid of the verbal harassment that was taking place in the car. They still hadn't gotten over the events from previous nights. The movie was nice. Next week we're doing it on Saturday evening, in case any of you want to make it.
On Saturday we had our Temple excursion, a year in the making. It was lovely. After which a bunch of us went to Johnny's Pizza. Rick came. He was analyzing everything. Its his job after all. I tried suggesting to him 'not to bring his work home with him', but he was to busy studying my speech patterns and tone of voice to actually listen. I was also there, and mistakenly wore a white shirt. I got the chicken Parmesan. It was soaking in both thick and super runny tomato sauce, all at the same time. With every turn of my fork, the sauce splattered somewhere, whether it be on the wall, a neighbor, or myself. So walking away from a nice meal, my shirt now looked like I had a food fight with myself.
After lunch, we adjourned for a few minutes and met up back at my place to watch a movie or to do something exciting on a Saturday night. Then at my place, It was funny cause some people found their spot in front of the TV, and some around the table talking. There was a bunch of people over. Catherine was with us, and Jeff and I started planning HER trip to Europe, with her there of course. It was fun for us. Finally after an hour or so of not deciding on what to do (to many people to make a decision), Kristen announced that she was getting ice cream. That must have been the Word of the Day cause in unison, everyone else at the same time also stood and started making their way to the door. Its just that when everyone got to the door, every person there wanted to go to a different ice cream shoppe. So more deliberation had to take place. But eventually people started aggreeing one one of two stores. The healthy people decided to visit Big Chill frozen yogurt, and the exciting people went to Cold Stone. Mmmm! It was so good. Getting there was a chore, cause I had 3 backseat drivers in my car. We parked at the Westside Pavillion, and on the way out, we were looking for the stair to the roof, and some lady said there wasn't any. So I had to argue with her about it, because there MUST be by law! At the same time there was an old couple asking me questions about the Ice Cream I was so thourougly enjoying. They wanted to hang out with us, but there was no room in my car. So I now feel its necessary to write a letter to the city Building Department and complain about this extremly illegal, and deadly, fire hazard. It was also opening day of this building as well, Brand-newly remodeled.
After the great Ice cream adventure we watched 'Paycheck' at my place, and just hung out. It was nice.
On Sunday morning I woke up and my clock told me it was 9:30. "Oh that's great" I exclaimed. I don't feel tired, and I have time to do lots of my typical weekend chores. Upon sitting up and taking a second look, at my alarm clock, it told me it was 10:30! My satellite clock had lied to me. the one who should set itself! we exchanged words for a minutes, and then I had to leave the room. So, I didn't have time to frolic on the beach for a little while, so I decided to continue Fighting the Battle of My Life until it was time for church. This morning I defended the Galaxy from rebel invasion, and tried to restore imperial rule and order to the outlying planetary systems. I commanded my space fleets admirablly. I've begun to amass a large force to send into the heat of battle on the northern most systems. I only fought the space battle. The rebels threatened one of my space stations at one point, the next time I play that game, I will be sure to punish them for their insurection. I will make them bow before me! Then I ran off to church.
Church was nice. Lots of new people. Enchilada's afterwards. I wore a wonderful dark blue shirt accented by a darker bronze patterned tie. I didn't want that beautiful effect to be drowned out by light pants, so I wore charcoal slacks by Claiborne, and by black shoes.
After church the boys and I decided to arrive early to Trisha's b-day bash and make our dinner there. After all, they're the ones with the Barbecue. The food was good. The company was lovely. We watched the Best of Will Ferrell randomly between eating and talking. Then ate more food. Then by the end of the night we played Scatagories for a while. Josh was the time keeper, and to signify that time was up, he would shoot people in 'inapropriate places' (both guys and girls) with a nerf gun, while they were standing in front of the group. By the end of the night it got a little out of hand. Then after sitting around for a while, I realized it was past my bed time.
I hope I didn't leave anything out. If so, I'll amment it tomorrow. Work was a slow-busy today.
Lunch was sponsored by Socko's sandwitch shop.
I'm listening to Social Distorion right now, "story of my life".
Friday, June 1, 2007
Daily Update
Happy Donut day everybody. to celebrate, this morning I went to Stan's Donuts, around the corner from my work. OK, I'll be honest, I've been celebrating all week, and I'm not ashamed of it! Mmmm.
I went running yesterday. I felt like a piece of ground beef sitting on the side of the road, wishing I was a steak. Similarly to Tuesday, I wasn't able to reach my full potential. My times were 18:34 on lap one, and 38:05 for lap two. Its like I was a mid-sized zebra, running through the Serengeti's marsh lands knee deep in the muggy waters, dodging the same potholes that I was leaping over two ago.
Matt and I went over to Autumn's and visited with her for a little bit. Traffic sucked getting there. We ended up talking about nerdy stuff like star wars, and comic books the whole time. I'm sure Matt was loving it.
I started painting for a minute. It really didn't work out, cause the paints I have dry much to quickly, even in a sealed container. And the paint thinner I got doesn't work. I think water would clean my brushes better. this is different stuff that I mentioned before. Its a little annoying.
So, my next adventure is still confusing to me. I originally went over to KA's cause they were doing Yoga. Jill has a level 3 yoga black belt apparently. I thought it would be good for me to get back into stretching stuff, after all it has been a while. But ... about 2 minutes after I get there, Jeff and Josh call and decided they want to watch a movie somewhere. I informed them of the intentions of the apartment, (which didn't involve movies or TV) but they would have none of it, Their plans were to commandeer the apartment, and watch movies. I am sure of this because of the amount and level of insults they used (toward me about yoga[although they were kind of funny]) in our 5 minute phone conversation. I'm still confused of the details because THEY CHANGED THEIR STORY as the night went on. I knew it wasn't going to be good when they decided to try to break in to KA's apartment thru the side window, a half floor up. In the next 10 minutes they changed the story twice, and did what ever they could to make ME look like the bad guy. I did nothing I tell you, which may have been the problem. They left, then Kristen informed me that yoga was canceled and sent me on my way as well.
So eventually we all trickled over to Jessica's where the 'friendly' arguing and 'friendly' insults continued to fly LATE into the night, as the room ates and neighbors attempted to sleep. We also watched some old movie called "the Ghost and Mr. Chicken". It was the typical Don Knotts comedy. I finally left cause it was late, but I had reservations doing so, cause they/we were all still arguing about what had just transpired. (they changed their story again at this point). My eyes told me to go and sleep, but my reputation wanted me to stay and defend myself. The eyes won because they realized that the other two weren't going to stop changing their story of how things transpired.
I'm just mad at myself for answering the phone in the first place.
Today is my One Year Anniversary for working here at CSA Architects. Its been a long interesting year. Nothing like school at all. Its good for me though. Only two more years until I can get my own license. Which means this is the year that I need to start taking the eight 5-hour examinations that lead up to the 9th and dreadful 'Oral Exam'. The most difficult of all tests.
I'm listening to Pennywise right now. Its good uplifting punk music, hosted by the new Punk channel on satellite radio.
I am still looking for a sponsor for lunch. no, oh wait... Ok, I just lined something up. Lunch was sponsored today by Marvin's.
I went running yesterday. I felt like a piece of ground beef sitting on the side of the road, wishing I was a steak. Similarly to Tuesday, I wasn't able to reach my full potential. My times were 18:34 on lap one, and 38:05 for lap two. Its like I was a mid-sized zebra, running through the Serengeti's marsh lands knee deep in the muggy waters, dodging the same potholes that I was leaping over two ago.
Matt and I went over to Autumn's and visited with her for a little bit. Traffic sucked getting there. We ended up talking about nerdy stuff like star wars, and comic books the whole time. I'm sure Matt was loving it.
I started painting for a minute. It really didn't work out, cause the paints I have dry much to quickly, even in a sealed container. And the paint thinner I got doesn't work. I think water would clean my brushes better. this is different stuff that I mentioned before. Its a little annoying.
So, my next adventure is still confusing to me. I originally went over to KA's cause they were doing Yoga. Jill has a level 3 yoga black belt apparently. I thought it would be good for me to get back into stretching stuff, after all it has been a while. But ... about 2 minutes after I get there, Jeff and Josh call and decided they want to watch a movie somewhere. I informed them of the intentions of the apartment, (which didn't involve movies or TV) but they would have none of it, Their plans were to commandeer the apartment, and watch movies. I am sure of this because of the amount and level of insults they used (toward me about yoga[although they were kind of funny]) in our 5 minute phone conversation. I'm still confused of the details because THEY CHANGED THEIR STORY as the night went on. I knew it wasn't going to be good when they decided to try to break in to KA's apartment thru the side window, a half floor up. In the next 10 minutes they changed the story twice, and did what ever they could to make ME look like the bad guy. I did nothing I tell you, which may have been the problem. They left, then Kristen informed me that yoga was canceled and sent me on my way as well.
So eventually we all trickled over to Jessica's where the 'friendly' arguing and 'friendly' insults continued to fly LATE into the night, as the room ates and neighbors attempted to sleep. We also watched some old movie called "the Ghost and Mr. Chicken". It was the typical Don Knotts comedy. I finally left cause it was late, but I had reservations doing so, cause they/we were all still arguing about what had just transpired. (they changed their story again at this point). My eyes told me to go and sleep, but my reputation wanted me to stay and defend myself. The eyes won because they realized that the other two weren't going to stop changing their story of how things transpired.
I'm just mad at myself for answering the phone in the first place.
Today is my One Year Anniversary for working here at CSA Architects. Its been a long interesting year. Nothing like school at all. Its good for me though. Only two more years until I can get my own license. Which means this is the year that I need to start taking the eight 5-hour examinations that lead up to the 9th and dreadful 'Oral Exam'. The most difficult of all tests.
I'm listening to Pennywise right now. Its good uplifting punk music, hosted by the new Punk channel on satellite radio.
I am still looking for a sponsor for lunch. no, oh wait... Ok, I just lined something up. Lunch was sponsored today by Marvin's.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Daily Update
I was so excited yesterday. I got a call from some random number(not the exciting part) and it was from REI in Santa Monica, my third most visited non-food store in the area, My shoes had arrived. They are made by Keen. Have you heard of them? Wow, they are so wonderful. They are nice and comfortable. Its like they are giving my feet a hug with every step I take. They can be worn to work, to the movies, to resturaunts, around the house, and much much more. I don't know about church though. They aren't in the same class as my Rockports, but I might try it one sunday if its not sandel wether.
I went straight from work to REI, then directly to the Wednesday night Danceability Class. We were learning 'Swing'. It was interesting. I'm really not good with the 'reherse it as I watch' style. I'm better at 'let me watch you then I'll mimic and make fun of you' style, as well as the 'do whatever you want to' style. So at the dance off, I partnered up with three different people. They were all unique. Let me explain: The first girl was just as oblivious as I was, and she humored me and my clumsy-unknowingness. The second was Jill (who we all know). She actually knew what she was doing and was trying to help me most of the time, which was nice,
thanks JF. Then there was the last girl, who just wanted me to twirl her around like a merry-go-round the whole time. and when it came time to practice the 'throw her through the legs', and the 'pick her up' part, that wasn't so easy. The 'throw her through the legs' part turned into a 'sit her down-step over her-step back-then help her up' move. Not as throwable, or bounce-up-able as Jill, thats for sure.
After that adventure upon trying to exit, I noticed Natasha walking toward me. At the same time I also remembered that I promised Foxy that I'd give her a ride home. I didn't mind, its just that I thought she knew how to get there. And her russian accent was very thick, and she's only been in the country for two weeks. It was a short adventure.
Then I watched 'So you think you can dance' at Greenfield. Josh and Jeff came over, and were pissed that we were actually watching that. HaHa. I left before they did. They stay up to late.
I'm listening to The Scorpions right now. They are singing a song called 'Blackout', except with their thick german accents, it sounds like they are saying 'Big Nose'. The chorus line goes "I really had a 'Blackout'". I'm hearing "I really got a 'Big Nose'". I'm rockin out at work with metal bands of the late 80's. The loud fast music keeps my mind from wandering so I can work more effeciently. But then I write about it.
Lunch was sponsored by In N' Out, with adult supervision by KA and JB.
I went straight from work to REI, then directly to the Wednesday night Danceability Class. We were learning 'Swing'. It was interesting. I'm really not good with the 'reherse it as I watch' style. I'm better at 'let me watch you then I'll mimic and make fun of you' style, as well as the 'do whatever you want to' style. So at the dance off, I partnered up with three different people. They were all unique. Let me explain: The first girl was just as oblivious as I was, and she humored me and my clumsy-unknowingness. The second was Jill (who we all know). She actually knew what she was doing and was trying to help me most of the time, which was nice,
thanks JF. Then there was the last girl, who just wanted me to twirl her around like a merry-go-round the whole time. and when it came time to practice the 'throw her through the legs', and the 'pick her up' part, that wasn't so easy. The 'throw her through the legs' part turned into a 'sit her down-step over her-step back-then help her up' move. Not as throwable, or bounce-up-able as Jill, thats for sure.
After that adventure upon trying to exit, I noticed Natasha walking toward me. At the same time I also remembered that I promised Foxy that I'd give her a ride home. I didn't mind, its just that I thought she knew how to get there. And her russian accent was very thick, and she's only been in the country for two weeks. It was a short adventure.
Then I watched 'So you think you can dance' at Greenfield. Josh and Jeff came over, and were pissed that we were actually watching that. HaHa. I left before they did. They stay up to late.
I'm listening to The Scorpions right now. They are singing a song called 'Blackout', except with their thick german accents, it sounds like they are saying 'Big Nose'. The chorus line goes "I really had a 'Blackout'". I'm hearing "I really got a 'Big Nose'". I'm rockin out at work with metal bands of the late 80's. The loud fast music keeps my mind from wandering so I can work more effeciently. But then I write about it.
Lunch was sponsored by In N' Out, with adult supervision by KA and JB.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Daily Update
So now that I've recovered from illness, I've been staying at work till later. It's not always fun, but it is sometimes necessary. This Friday it will be the big '1 year anniversary' at my job. They'll probably start reminding me to take the Licensing exam tests, poop. But I feel that by me leaving early, I can't mope around my apartment as much, which still puts me on the same schedule, there's simply less down time, which leaves plenty of time for me to be productive. So staying at work a bit longer isn't that big of a deal.
So when I'm getting ready to send a well crafted Daily Update, I always re-read it, to cut down on errors, and also to make sure I correctly portray each and every story. But there are still items that still fall thru the cracks. For Example:
Ryan Plewe and I went running on Monday. (It completely slipped my mind yesterday.) I told him to call me to see if I was up when he went. (unfortunately) I forgot to silence my phone, so yes, he woke me up at 9am. I reluctantly went with him. We both did pretty good. My time was 17:05, the best recorded time at this track. I was like the great Springbok of the wild safari, leaping from knoll to knoll. The tall grasses and prairie-dog holes did not bother me, for I could jump over them all in a single bound. My keen Hawk-like eyesight also helped me spot each graceful landing. I conquered this feat today with ease, well, with 17 minutes of ease anyway. At the end, as I awaited Plewe to finish, I of course was greeting all the other runners that came by, especially the new 'Miss Brentwood'. I mean wow. I'm pretty sure she was flaunting it. Then as Plewe arrived he had to help me settle down, and stop drooling. Then, as a champ, while driving away, he started honking at her as we drove by bringing an annoying reality to my temporary dream girl. Thanks a lot Ryan!
And yet a gain, I went running yesterday, on tuesday as well. It was a little later in the evening. Not as many people. A little colder. A little harder to move my legs. I did see pirates there for the first time though, two of them in fact. One wearing red, one blue, I wonder if they were together. This time, my race was finished in a whopping 17:40. I now have timed checkpoints at each corner of the Country club, so I know if I'm fast or slow compared to each corner. The average times are 5min, 6min, 11min, and 16min. at each corner. I've been doing better on the uphill parts, and slower on the down hill parts. At the end, I think I saw Miss Brentwood again. I was going to say hello, but then I remembered that Plewe the obnoxious Perv ruined that for me.
Jeff was itching to eat, so immediately after running the kids picked me up, and we went to the Indian food place on Westwood and Olympic for 'Supper'.
Then we stopped by Selby cause Greenfield was avoiding us. Starting this Friday we'll be showing the Harry Potter movies at their place. It should be loads of fun.
I've started painting. The stuff I got to clean my brushes didn't work, turns out it instantly ruins them. And the paint I have dries really quickly. So I'm down two nice brushes. Its lots different than in Utah. So last night I had to try some new stuff, On saturday I'll have to yell at the people at Utrecht for selling me crap.
I'm listening to Lilly Allen right now.
Lunch was sponsored by Quizno's, and hosted by Rick & Silvia.
So when I'm getting ready to send a well crafted Daily Update, I always re-read it, to cut down on errors, and also to make sure I correctly portray each and every story. But there are still items that still fall thru the cracks. For Example:
Ryan Plewe and I went running on Monday. (It completely slipped my mind yesterday.) I told him to call me to see if I was up when he went. (unfortunately) I forgot to silence my phone, so yes, he woke me up at 9am. I reluctantly went with him. We both did pretty good. My time was 17:05, the best recorded time at this track. I was like the great Springbok of the wild safari, leaping from knoll to knoll. The tall grasses and prairie-dog holes did not bother me, for I could jump over them all in a single bound. My keen Hawk-like eyesight also helped me spot each graceful landing. I conquered this feat today with ease, well, with 17 minutes of ease anyway. At the end, as I awaited Plewe to finish, I of course was greeting all the other runners that came by, especially the new 'Miss Brentwood'. I mean wow. I'm pretty sure she was flaunting it. Then as Plewe arrived he had to help me settle down, and stop drooling. Then, as a champ, while driving away, he started honking at her as we drove by bringing an annoying reality to my temporary dream girl. Thanks a lot Ryan!
And yet a gain, I went running yesterday, on tuesday as well. It was a little later in the evening. Not as many people. A little colder. A little harder to move my legs. I did see pirates there for the first time though, two of them in fact. One wearing red, one blue, I wonder if they were together. This time, my race was finished in a whopping 17:40. I now have timed checkpoints at each corner of the Country club, so I know if I'm fast or slow compared to each corner. The average times are 5min, 6min, 11min, and 16min. at each corner. I've been doing better on the uphill parts, and slower on the down hill parts. At the end, I think I saw Miss Brentwood again. I was going to say hello, but then I remembered that Plewe the obnoxious Perv ruined that for me.
Jeff was itching to eat, so immediately after running the kids picked me up, and we went to the Indian food place on Westwood and Olympic for 'Supper'.
Then we stopped by Selby cause Greenfield was avoiding us. Starting this Friday we'll be showing the Harry Potter movies at their place. It should be loads of fun.
I've started painting. The stuff I got to clean my brushes didn't work, turns out it instantly ruins them. And the paint I have dries really quickly. So I'm down two nice brushes. Its lots different than in Utah. So last night I had to try some new stuff, On saturday I'll have to yell at the people at Utrecht for selling me crap.
I'm listening to Lilly Allen right now.
Lunch was sponsored by Quizno's, and hosted by Rick & Silvia.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Daily Update - Weekend Edition
Friday I went shopping for watermellons at Costco. Then hung out at Greenfield...I think. Yes, I was going to go to a store with Plewe, but he was ULtra-Slow. EmWin let me Un-Tivo 'So you think you can Dance' from her TV. So far there are three girls in my five top favorite spots. Yes, its possible, one girl was good enough to take favorite spots 1, 2, and part of 3. I also spoke with the girl we used to know as Renee. She's in some place called 'Ore-E-Gone'. Sounds like 'Purgatory', or some place in 'Middle Earth'. Then later into the evening I started editing pictures for my movie. Also one thing that I can't NOT mention was that I slowly resumed 'The Battle of My Life'. It was almost boring because I am such a powerful warrior. I again found myself battling the demons and cursed creatures from the 'Nether World'. I stopped fighting when I decided that I needed to find some wax paper for painting.
Saturday was busy. After a wonderful sleep in, I set up for the Ward Activity. Then went to the ward activity, and then to a baptism. I car pooled with a few kids. It turns out it takes more than 5 minutes to drive across town, and also apparently bumbers fall off when you race into steep driveways at 20 mph. There were 4 spelling errors on the program, thanks for pointing that out Emily. I don't like to use the Spellcheck in Photoshop. Its so comlecated, and I was in a hurry. OOps. Then back to the activity. We watched an old movie. 'Arsnic and Old Lace'. It was nice. (Dinner was sponsored by In N Out this day).
On Sunday morning I drove all the way to Downey to visit with my Grandma and Cousins. They were in town for Memorial Day stuff. Grandma is getting even dingie-er. She would try to tell me stories, but in a volume so low that NO ONE could hear except maybe elephants or bats. We had breakfast in their hotel. G'ma got probably two of everything on the menu (buffet), and only ate MAYBE 5% of it all. Then half of the leftovers went into her purse, just so she could offer it to someone else later. My cousin then kept pointing at some guys 'package' and wanted everyone else to look too, even Grandma me and her 6 year old daughter. She even drug G'ma over on a tour of the dining area just so they 'both' could get a closer look at this dude's croch. (what a great roll model). It was probably just an extra pair of socks. And her daughter, Irelynd, was busy throwing food at me and racing up and down in the elevators (first floor to eighth floor) reeking havoc on the inhabatants of the hotel. The room they got was also a smoking room, so having been in there for only five minutes, my clothes stunk of smoke. Other than all of that, it was very nice.
After church I went to a lovely Barbaque hosted by the Fairburn girls. Then after that, there was Game-night at Greenfield. (A special thanks to all parties involved)
I went to the Star Wars Convention on Monday morning. Wow was it fantastic. I had to 'nerd-it-up' alone because both Sara and Catherine were out of town, and Autumn was busy. It was definatly a unique experience. I was walking toward the Convention Center in Downtown LA, when some British Toothed Rancor, who i was walking near, decided to attack me with conversation. Although defensive, I obliged. He had been there for all 4 days. Oh boy, we have ourselves a winner here. He was wearing Star wars everything, probably his 'darth vader tighty whities' too. Luckily I walk to fast for his 'comic book lifestyle', so I evaded any further conversation. Next encounter: I was on the street corner readying myself to cross the street into ultamate nerd-dome land when I guy approached me and asked if I was meeting anyone inside. Hmmm? I thought to respond that I didn't want any of his drugs, or to buy any of his hookers, but instead I just said no. He said that he had an 'Extra' 4-Day Convention Pass that he would sell to me for $35, $10 dollars cheaper than at the door. Hmmm, its not drugs or hookers, or anything illegal, just a piece of plastic with a picture and stamp on it. Ok, I did it. he walks me inside and then we exchange goods. He was very good not to hover, and to be inconspicuous. He was a pro at this. (Throughout the day I saw him doing it numerous times. He must have had a lot 'extra' passes.) Then, there I was. I found myself in the middle of another Galaxy. Nerds everywhere! They had childeren too! All these childeren were whapping eachother with these plastic sticks too. I just didn't understand it. As I moved into the main convention hall, I then realized that the kids in the foyer were just mimicing the adults inside who were also whapping eachother with plastic toys. Except the adults inside were decked out in fully detailed costumes, enter the Uber-nerd. They were everywhere! I took lots of pictures of them. I'll forward those to you all tonight or tomorrow. You might find my experience interesting. There were sections for: displays, toys, a store, an auditorium, food, build your own stuff, costumes, star wars art, Graphic illustrators, jedi-training, and actors from the movie. And those were just the places that I went. after 3 hours of checking stuff out, I decided it would be great if I got peoples autographs. So I got audographs from all the popular bad-guys from the movies. It was fun. It was there in line that I again realized that to many of these people took it way to seriously. Definatly a day to remember.
Later in the day I started painting. I started two of them at the same time. It has taken me longer than I thought it would, but whatever. Quality takes time you see. Then Josh called and He, JAM, and Myself went to Wendy's. All in all, it was a very fullfilling weekend.
Lunch was sponsored by a Chocolate shake at Fatburger.
I'm listening to Stone Temple Pilots right now.
Saturday was busy. After a wonderful sleep in, I set up for the Ward Activity. Then went to the ward activity, and then to a baptism. I car pooled with a few kids. It turns out it takes more than 5 minutes to drive across town, and also apparently bumbers fall off when you race into steep driveways at 20 mph. There were 4 spelling errors on the program, thanks for pointing that out Emily. I don't like to use the Spellcheck in Photoshop. Its so comlecated, and I was in a hurry. OOps. Then back to the activity. We watched an old movie. 'Arsnic and Old Lace'. It was nice. (Dinner was sponsored by In N Out this day).
On Sunday morning I drove all the way to Downey to visit with my Grandma and Cousins. They were in town for Memorial Day stuff. Grandma is getting even dingie-er. She would try to tell me stories, but in a volume so low that NO ONE could hear except maybe elephants or bats. We had breakfast in their hotel. G'ma got probably two of everything on the menu (buffet), and only ate MAYBE 5% of it all. Then half of the leftovers went into her purse, just so she could offer it to someone else later. My cousin then kept pointing at some guys 'package' and wanted everyone else to look too, even Grandma me and her 6 year old daughter. She even drug G'ma over on a tour of the dining area just so they 'both' could get a closer look at this dude's croch. (what a great roll model). It was probably just an extra pair of socks. And her daughter, Irelynd, was busy throwing food at me and racing up and down in the elevators (first floor to eighth floor) reeking havoc on the inhabatants of the hotel. The room they got was also a smoking room, so having been in there for only five minutes, my clothes stunk of smoke. Other than all of that, it was very nice.
After church I went to a lovely Barbaque hosted by the Fairburn girls. Then after that, there was Game-night at Greenfield. (A special thanks to all parties involved)
I went to the Star Wars Convention on Monday morning. Wow was it fantastic. I had to 'nerd-it-up' alone because both Sara and Catherine were out of town, and Autumn was busy. It was definatly a unique experience. I was walking toward the Convention Center in Downtown LA, when some British Toothed Rancor, who i was walking near, decided to attack me with conversation. Although defensive, I obliged. He had been there for all 4 days. Oh boy, we have ourselves a winner here. He was wearing Star wars everything, probably his 'darth vader tighty whities' too. Luckily I walk to fast for his 'comic book lifestyle', so I evaded any further conversation. Next encounter: I was on the street corner readying myself to cross the street into ultamate nerd-dome land when I guy approached me and asked if I was meeting anyone inside. Hmmm? I thought to respond that I didn't want any of his drugs, or to buy any of his hookers, but instead I just said no. He said that he had an 'Extra' 4-Day Convention Pass that he would sell to me for $35, $10 dollars cheaper than at the door. Hmmm, its not drugs or hookers, or anything illegal, just a piece of plastic with a picture and stamp on it. Ok, I did it. he walks me inside and then we exchange goods. He was very good not to hover, and to be inconspicuous. He was a pro at this. (Throughout the day I saw him doing it numerous times. He must have had a lot 'extra' passes.) Then, there I was. I found myself in the middle of another Galaxy. Nerds everywhere! They had childeren too! All these childeren were whapping eachother with these plastic sticks too. I just didn't understand it. As I moved into the main convention hall, I then realized that the kids in the foyer were just mimicing the adults inside who were also whapping eachother with plastic toys. Except the adults inside were decked out in fully detailed costumes, enter the Uber-nerd. They were everywhere! I took lots of pictures of them. I'll forward those to you all tonight or tomorrow. You might find my experience interesting. There were sections for: displays, toys, a store, an auditorium, food, build your own stuff, costumes, star wars art, Graphic illustrators, jedi-training, and actors from the movie. And those were just the places that I went. after 3 hours of checking stuff out, I decided it would be great if I got peoples autographs. So I got audographs from all the popular bad-guys from the movies. It was fun. It was there in line that I again realized that to many of these people took it way to seriously. Definatly a day to remember.
Later in the day I started painting. I started two of them at the same time. It has taken me longer than I thought it would, but whatever. Quality takes time you see. Then Josh called and He, JAM, and Myself went to Wendy's. All in all, it was a very fullfilling weekend.
Lunch was sponsored by a Chocolate shake at Fatburger.
I'm listening to Stone Temple Pilots right now.
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