The Month of July

started off really rough and slow, but towards the end has been one of my memorable moments since my move to the bay.

Turning another year older, wasn't just another year older, it felt like i was entering some new "era" of life, where things have to start pushing forward. I just didn't (or maybe still don't) know which direction that should be. I always imagined my life would be completely different from what it is now, and i am NOT complaining, just stating that this was not how i imagined my life to be. at this moment. the now.

But I made the best of it, along with help from a few of my friends. Friends, who seriously, made me laugh til i cried - which I haven't done in months, who purposely abducted me from my apartment, who shared their own adventure of life and their view of life's expectations. i loved these past couple of weeks so much that i don't want it to end, coz you know...reality of it all is...we need to go back to work. booo.

Ok, so according to my friend (who i like to call) Jewel, i've been drinking every weekend. Could you blame me? It's my birthday month, and dammit! it's a month long celebration. I can't go into detail of all the crazy shananigans that have ocurred within the month, but i can list some fun highlights. I'm sure I may have forgotten some good ones...but hey...work with me...i'm gettin older =P

this highlight list in no particular order, just the order i remember them (oh, and it's only the positive shyet that's happened):

- fireworks from the golden gate bridge
- movies, movies, movies
- Friends on tv 247 (well, almost 247)
- stats project
- summer bar nights
- crepevine, ghirardelli and embarcadero
- postCOIT tower being shocked, along with the bay bridge
- Embarcadero walk for an open bar
- Free ride on MUNI
- Steps of Rome: dancing with the waiters in a drunken stupor as prince charming tried to put his hand up cinderella's dress. As well as creating the fantasy scene at the window, and taking very random pics.
- Designated driver decided to drive through a red light, and she had nothing to drink.
- Zanze's cheesecake with white merlot and John persuading us to join MobWars (and it is still a no).
- Blowing bubbles out the window
- Packing for a surprise trip to SoCal (4 hrs of sleep yo)
- Dark Knight and Benihana
- Surprise visit with flowers and a chocolate cake
- Bomb squad at Ocean Beach was trying to deter us from our goal of seeing the ocean, but we drove through GGP to see men dressed in all white.
- Satellite sighting - First Wife's first...she claims to have seen 50. we only saw one, which i made a wish to see more satellites.
- Stow Lake, Twin Peaks and a drive through Haight
- Stop. Slow Down band
- Photography lesson
- 24 hour Buffalo Wings place (dood, hella dope!)
- A night club that turns into a karaoke joint! lol
- Cristobrownball
- "Mama Jen is gonna cook us breakfast for lunch?"
- Burnt by the cooking of bacon
- Adventure dome: how do you decide who wins a tied air hockey game? Play rock, paper, scissors; White tiger and pink bear, beat Georgio in Initial D race!
- 2 orders of a the 12 pc meal from KFC,
- All you can drink Wristbands at Risque
- Cosmos and red headed sluts
- Pictures galore
- "What's my name bitch?!"
- Noemi from the bathroom
- Wheelchair
- "do you remember what happened last night?" "Yes, but i'm too embarassed to say.." lol
- Buffet at Orleans looking for Jewel's twin
- Laughing as we drove away from Orlean Buffet
- Laundry
- 2 hour flight delay
- Fog.

uhh, is there more? probably, but i can't recall right now. i'm too caught up trying to think of how i'm going to finish my stats project, study for a final that is freakin' long: 212 questions. who does that kinda shyet?

Ok, well the adventure continues - NYC and SoCAl are next on my list....

Tv on dvd

is a terrible thing!

i can honestly say that i have spent the past couple of weeks in my apartment rather than exploring the world and what it has to offer me. my apartment. geez! will nothing seem to go right?

with everyone starting to settle down in long term relationships, marriages, and goodness gracious, children; i've noticed a decrease in the amount of social elbowing with folks. i miss these people. I miss going out with them, and making our own memories instead of making memories (or maybe even re-living them) with characters on tv. tv on dvd is dangerous. it sucks you in, and before you know it - it's already midnight and you're sitting, wondering, "what did i accomplish today?" the only things anyone could say would be what the characters on tv accomplished.

i'm in a crap of a class in the morning, and i seriously, just go home and watch. sometimes i'll get the nerve to walk down to the beach, the Haight, or just anywhere to escape this place i call home. This is a home, but i don't want to be in it literally 24 hours a day. my spirit needs to roam around the world, and dammit, it can not roam around in an apartment for this long.

today, i woke up to get my car washed (which btw, they didn't do such a good job), bought myself a #7 from Micky d's and then plopped myself back on my couch. i'm forcing myself to get up in about 4 minutes to take a shower and do some bay area wandering, because i need to. i owe it to myself to make a beautiful story of my life, and obviously i cannot keep daydreaming, wishing and watching it happen on tv.

huh. what an odd post.

Silly mom

My mom is kinda funny, no wait...she is funny.

It's the long weekend for most folks, and as most folks everyone's trying to leave the city they live in to visit family, friends and what not. i haven't been home in awhile, wait...when was the last time i was home? Yah, I haven't been home in awhile, and I kind of want to see my family before my birthday (which is coming up sometime this year), and so i called to ask my mom's opinion. Here we go, the convo:

"So, I was thinking of coming home this weekend. What are you guys doing?"
"why do you want to come home? we aren't doing anything."
"I just want to come home, you know to visit. I haven't been there in awhile.."
"you know the gas prices are too expensive, i don't know if you should drive down here...it's too much money." (this is coming from my mom who also told me that the reason why i couldn't afford my car was because i couldn't afford my rent. umm, ok)
"so, i shouldn't come down? i do have a free ticket on Southwest, i can just book that. would you pick me up?"
"But we aren't doing anything, so i don't know if it's worth coming down here for."

Umm, is it me or is my mom basically telling me not to come home, or is she pulling one of those reverse psychology things on me? hahaha