Aaah, What A Weekend!

July 7th, 2008

Long weekends are the best invention ever, mmmmhmmm!

After I got off work on Thursday (at 6 fricken 30 I might add, grumble) I did a mad dash over to my D&D game. I’m a dwarf cleric in that game and pretty much rock, for the record We played that for a couple hours and had dinner and it was fun. Then… we busted out ROCK BAND! Wooooo! That game is ridiculously fun, OMG. I started off playing guitar, and we had to keep switching roles after a few songs cause everybody we had singing kept failing. So then they took my guitar and handed me the mic, and apparently I’m really good at being the singer, so now… I sing! We made a band called Whiteboard Hoppopotamus (default names FTW!) and rocked out until like, 3 in the morning when we got too tired to keep our eyes open.

Friday I hung out with Xoie for the morning then went to a BBQ thing and ate lots of yummy food and drank way more mojitos than I probably needed and as such, was unable to make it to my Friday night D&D game (I’m a tiefling rogue in that one, and I think I’m awesome but haven’t gotten much chance to find out just yet). But, I got to blow things up and that was fun, too.

Saturday I cleaned like crazy. My bedroom is about 96% organized! My closet it spotless! I still need to do the bathroom and bring the rest of my stuff up from the garage, but I think I’m almost done. Exciting! Wooo! Then I went to a half-birthday party which was also way fun.

I got a nasty charlie horse in my right calf in the middle of the night. It was terrible! Nothing quite like waking up with your leg muscle clenched, causing some major ouch-ness. Stretching it out HURT. My leg has been sore since then. Walking hurts and I practically fell over getting up out of bed this morning. I can’t wait for this to go away.

Sunday I played more D&D with my cleric-group, then we rigged the backyard so that it was puppy proof and I went and picked Xoie up.. we played with her for a bit then gave her reign of the backyard and played way more Rock Band. Love that game haha! Then we went out to dinner, and played even more Rock Band and goofed off until it was time to go home.

Cause you know, pesky work thing and all.

  Everyday Life   permalink   10 comments   08:56 AM

The Moving Chronicles

April 28th, 2008

Have I mentioned lately that I hate moving? Well. I do. I’d probably be dead now if it wasn’t for my little legion of friends though. Thanks guys <3

Thursday a couple friends moved my desk for me.. that thing is massive and it was quite an endeavor. I supervised. And the desk just *barely* fit in the little nook that I wanted it in. It’s pretty impressive actually. Also moved a few small boxes. Then I went to another friends house to watch TV and wound up drinking way too much and then Friday sucked. Oops.

Friday we moved all the rest of my stuff (garbage bags FTW!!) and were planning on having a Packing Party (read: throw stuff in bags while drinking beer) but we left the beer at the wrong house. So after we were done moving we had 2 beers and played like, half an hour of video game, then passed out from sheer exhaustion. Yay.

Saturday I went back to the old apartment with Tom cause we had to clean the carpet and counters and stuff, and sign over the lease. Tom was rude to me on the phone but when I got there he looked really sheepish and apologized for being rude, so all was well. It was a little bittersweet to look at the empty apartment ... much as I am pretty close to over the whole thing it’s still a little sad to look at the utter finality of it. Signing the lease over made everything so official *sigh* Soooo I was a little down most of Saturday. I spent the whole day over at a friends house with Xoie playing with a few other puppies and sitting in front of a fire pit and trying not to dwell. The day was really unproductive but I think I really needed it. I felt a lot better.

So yesterday I went to IKEA and bought a mirror and a shelf and an armchair, and a new bed set, and a really cute little red dot rug. Oh and a light fixture, my buddy Marcus is supposed to come put it up for me sometime this week. I need to go get Xoie a doggy bed. She took over my armchair haha. Then I unpacked some stuff and went to sleep early.

Today I think I will go cash my check (it’s pretty much all accounted for, bleh) and make some dinner and get back to unpacking. I can’t wait for my room to be all done so that I just don’t have to think about moving any more.

  Everyday Life   permalink   7 comments   08:59 AM

Taxes and Alchoholic Orange Julius’s

April 15th, 2008

Happy Tax Day people. Mwahaha. I hope you all got your stuff done I finally sent in my Oregon taxes yesterday (they wanted money from me so I put it off for a while haha). Anyway yeah taxes suck.

So last night we had alcoholic Orange Julius’s. Have you ever bought a bottle of rum, and then gone to the house that you’re all hanging out at, only to realize that nobody remembered to bring the Coke? Yeah, that was totally us last night. So the only thing in the fridge at my friends house were a couple cans of this sparkling orange flavored… stuff? Damned if I know what it was but it was a pretty good mixer. Our drinks were rum filled melted orange julius’s. Good times!

Hrm. What else to blog about… well, I’m moving this weekend. Puppy is a spaz. Work is fun, but people are stupid. That’s about it.

Oh, I also made like, an invite only blog on Blogger for posting about things that are fun but that I don’t need the whole wide internet to know about. If you want access (and think that it’s possible that I’d let you read it LOL [if I talk to you I’ll probably let you in]) leave a comment here saying that you want access and I’ll hook you up with an invite email *nods* Gmail acct if possible, I think it works better that way. I’m way too lazy to go track down all your email addresses. I plan on posting about last weekends shenanigans (those of you that follow my Twitter might be curious) some time soon! Yay!

That is all. I will try not to be so sparse and update more often but I make no promises.

  Everyday Life   permalink   4 comments   05:04 PM

Starting A New Job

March 13th, 2008

Soo… tomorrow is my last day at my current work. I gotta say, I really am excited about it. I really hated the work I was doing. I’m just not an admin, and spending all day filing and answering phones was really starting to get to me. But, I am very thankful for having that job. It got me here to Portland, and helped me while I got settled in. I will miss my coworkers. I won’t miss the job though.

I start a new job on Monday. I’m rather looking forward to it! I’m going to be doing tech support for Adobe products. Well, I have training first, but you know. I think it will be fun! I will get to meet a lot of new people and hopefully make some good friends. It will also be good experience to put on my resume. I admit, it’s a very basic, entry level posistion, and I could do a lot harder work… but nobody wants to hire me based off of personal experience hah. So, I’m gonna do my time, and see where it goes from there.

It’s a little scary though, leaving a “good job” for such a “low level” job. But, if it’s a step in the right direction, to doing something I will enjoy, then I think it’s worth it

In other news, I am headed up to Seattle this weekend, so it will probably be quiet around here for a little longer.

  Everyday Life   permalink   4 comments   09:31 PM

It’s Too Quiet…

March 10th, 2008

Hmm. I seem to have not updated in a while. No good!!

So what have I been up to? Well, I’ve been kind of dragging my feet through the last couple weeks here at work. I’m just antsy to start my new job and haven’t been able to focus. I’ve also been trying to finish up this stupid filing project so the new girl isn’t stuck with it. I must be nuts… who files at a place they’re leaving?! Hah.

What else… meh. I’ve been mostly trying to stay busy and keep my mind of of stuff, like Tom. Sitting around at home mostly alone is just making me sad. I stick around for a bit so that Xoie can run around but yeah. I’ve been out with the few friends that I have, or out driving, and what not. I’ve watched a LOT of movies in the past week but none of them really stick out in my head. I’m alright, I’m just kind of stuck in a rut right now.

But, I did get to go out to dinner last week with an old friend, and Yoshi was here for a book-signing and we hung out and it was fun (you can read all about it in his blog post titled My day in Beaverton), and what else.... oh, on Friday I went out with a bunch of people that work where I will be working next week (one of my friends invited me out with them) so that was fun. We drank way too much and they probably won’t remember me next week LOL but it will be nice to at least vaguely recognize a few faces I almost lost my phone and that would have sucked, but I found it in my truck, whew! And I played Guitar Hero for the first time on Saturday and it was fun, and we made sundaes. I’ve been shopping a couple times and things like that… busy busy. I am rather exhausted though. This “being out a lot” thing is kind of new to me. I’m having fun, but still in my rut.

I am starting to feel better though. We’re getting along better. I’m moving in a month and a half or so which will definitely help, so that my brain doesn’t start going off and thinking things about where Tom is and what he might be doing, because that just doesn’t do me any good. I’m starting my new job next week which I am excited for… I’m going up to Seattle this weekend… yeah, things will look up. I just need some more time I think.

And then I can stop with the depressing posts haha

  Everyday Life   permalink   6 comments   10:09 AM

Why So Hidden?

February 29th, 2008

With the proliferation of the internet, you would think that more and more people would be communicating. I remember a time when the internet was new and fresh, and people were talking to each other, building websites, and using that as a form of communication unlike anything ever was done before. However, it seems that today no one wants to talk to each other, and instead we are stuck in circles with the same group of friends in the same towns,cities, and internet world, without anything interesting to say.

Case in point: AIM.

My aim account has 56 screen names, and often times half of the names are online and doing stuff. However, if I don’t initiate contact days, weeks, months, and for some names, years go by without as much as a hello. However, back in high school, I was the bone-afide hustler, going on makeoutclub.com and scoping aim names, talking to the ladies, and genuinely meeting more people than I did in real life. (Growing up in los angeles didn’t make it easy to meet people...everyone is so afraid of each other)

But then I grew up.

I never got out of the internet job world, I stay online for at least 18 hours a day with my aim running, hoping that someone somewhere will see my name lit up and would say hello, engage me in a conversation about anything, anything at all!

Instead, people pass by each other on the information super highway, just like they passed me by in high school, and just like they passed me by in college. Now I sit in a cubicle in the heart of seattle, programming websites for clients that don’t even care to know my name, and all I have to communicate with the outside world is my aim name...and a computer.

No one cares though…

we don’t care about each other, and we don’t have time for anymore aim friends.

But wait, there’s more!

I have 4,000 myspace friends...when’s the last time I heard from any of them?

I recently moved to Seattle, Wa. I have no friends here.

Every attempt at saying hello has been greeted with a face of disgust, or fear that I’m going to steal from them.

They talk about tolerance, but I find that the world doesn’t tolerate a Mexican saying hello to them, unless we are serving their meals, cleaning their tables, or sitting a counter...the clerks life...I miss it.

I hate the way the internet has made people more introverted than ever. It wasn’t suppose to be that way....

So I sit here, on hour 38 of my 40 hour a week job....wishing that someone would recognize that I’m still alive...barely hanging on.

Darn...I just spilled my drink.

*Written by sirjorge for FFAF.

  Free for All Friday   permalink   2 comments   10:23 AM

Trip to LA

December 15th, 2007

I have 25 minutes to kill before it is time to go to the airport so I figured I would blog.

I’ve been in L.A. since last week. Came to visit friends and family and stuff. I feel like I need a vacation from my vacation. I’m actually really anxious to be back home. I should have booked an earlier flight. I got to hang out with a lot of people, to the point where I am feeling more anti-social than I normally do heh. I don’t want to see anybody but my Tom Tom. I miss him like woah

But I got to see my Jeffrey Bean, and my mom and grandma and brother, and a couple of my uncles and cousins, and my sister and nephew, and Hilary and Sonia and Thom and Amber and Paula, and I helped Friend Tom celebrate his birthday (and had drama leaving the parking lot with the stupid-head attendant) and Harlan and all the people from work. That’s quite a list heh. I’m probably forgetting people, oh well.

I spent too much money while I was here heheheh. I bought clothes and shoes and video games which was dumb cause I had to pay sales tax, but I needed something to do on the plane ride back home. I found a bunch of stuff in the outdoor closet too. I’m going home with twice as much stuff as I left with.

I got Mario Party DS (I already beat story mode hahaha) and My Sims for DS… and I have to go to Target when I get home to buy a Fry Daddy and whatever me and Tom want to spend our gift card on. Wheeeee, I love Target.

Oh yeah and I went to a Cowboy Mouth concert. It was pretty fun. It would have been better if I wasn’t so exhausted when I went though. I literally have no energy left. I don’t think I am going out tonight.

....... why isn’t it time to go yet?!?!?!?

  Everyday Life   permalink   0 comments   02:07 PM