the dodgers concessions or whatnot entities are out of their fugging mind if they think people will pay 60 bucks for an image download. seriously bonkers. i screen printed the photos of some of us from last saturday's game. fuck the police

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the dodgers concessions or whatnot entities are out of their fugging mind if they think people will pay 60 bucks for an image download. seriously bonkers. i screen printed the photos of some of us from last saturday's game. fuck the police

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its been approx. 2 weeks of successful healthy eating

• saving money by packing lunch from home
• and saving gas by not going out to buy lunch 

score one for the environment and minus one for the economy

healthy type activity during last 2 weeks has been a bust

• 2 hours of OT every day of the week left little time to work out after work
• endeavoring to make a new habit of taking a walk for 10-15 minutes around the campus as a break from being a chained to a desk for 10hrs a day
  

bought barry's bootcamp box from target at jen's suggestion, and because it was on teh price cut. recently tried it out. pleased with it so far. i can see why people would want to do barry's bootcamp in person, barry seems quite the charmer on the dvd, though richard's stories might make one think otherwise.

gah on this saturday's mandatory OT, 4 fugging hours, plus i have to call Eri-san, my sensei's TA and schedule a lunch with her and my peeps from Japanese class. ugh iono where to go! blargh!

must get my shit together ASAP... 

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i'm officially claiming its spring in LA

there might be rain tomorrow or not but seriously it feels like winter is over.
weather was nice on saturday and sunday.

saturday was japanese class, popping down to kaiser for a doctor's appointment that is actually this next saturday... Doh!, me writing a letter to kogi bbq's alice about the bad service we got at the alibi room friday night and getting some late night kyochon with jen, jose andy and jik... talking about how a monkey or ape has crazy strength and can potentially rip your face off. like what happened to this lady in real life... strike one for healthy type eating

sunday was me taking my fams to dim sum in alhambra... strike two for healthy eating. the rest of the day was hanging out at jik's, playing with the house cat, watching teh very bratty kaylee pulling temper tantrums as usual and watching horrible realty tv and too many u-verse tv choices, harry potter and a bit of live free and die hard. which made me think "america, fuck yeah!" and going to eat breakfast for dinner at IHOP and then Fosselman's Ice Cream for desert... strike three for healthy eating weekend!

ugh. i miss hanging out w/ my BBC but it usually involves teh bad food choices. bleh. we should try and do something that doesn't involve eating food or drinking booze. maybe trips to places where you have to walk some distance. the weather is totally nice enough for that. meh on teh lazy mornings. must get back on track.

i anticipate monday will involve some stupidly long OT. bleh. bleh blah blee bloo blargh. i am the はたらきばち (hatarakibachi) worker-bee... >_<

Bumblebee

buzz buzz buzz

one thing to look forward to is that watchmen is coming out. definitely gonna pick up some tickets at the arclight at the dome, yay! me and most of the bbc appear down to do the damn thing.

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eh 30 what the fuck

my birthday celebrating has a a bit of track record of being either spectacularly non-spectacular events except for a few exceptions. while i was in school it was the finals/midterm whatever have you test times. lots of pressure to study, very little impetus to party it up on the actual day. postponement always ran into valentines day and then pouf kaput, the celebrating drive has passed completely and on to living the rest of your life like on the regular.

now that everyone or nearly everyone is out of school, most of my bougie bitch clique are working stiffs, being full-time-grown-ups for 40 plus hours a week. its just rawrsome when i can spend any sortof extended amount of time with my favorite people. so last time i was in SF with Renee and her friend Jenn, kipping it a Vanessa's apartment for the weekend. Porkchop and I talked about what an awesome b-day event it would be to go winetasting up in vineyards in Santa Barbara/Santa Inez.

so this Sunday we took a limo up to 3 vineyards. Sunstone, Gainey, and Rideau.and of course the best part of any trip is how you get there. after the initial snaffu with our train trip to SB via Amtrak getting cancelled, the plan modified to a limo picking us up at Andy's. 2.5 hr car ride flew by in a lovely bubbly haze a 5 bottle bubbly type of haze. 12 quality hanging out hours with lots of laughs and wine and minimal debauchery. generally being a bit inebriated before and after drinking wine is kinda fun. i decided that i didn't fancy the spicy wines. and nothing is better for a tiny wine hangover than jumping up and doing jump kicks.

the worst of the wine hangover feeling caught up with me after dinner. too much wine, yep there is definitely such a thing. maybe we were showing our age by calling it a night but it was pretty much a perfect day for me. spent with the best people i know. i am grateful for these bitches in my like, for the Vanessa's especially. Porkchop for being La Jefa you are my Barney, i know i said i didn't like you when i first met you but really i don't like most people when i first meet them, 1st impressions dont hold much water with me cause i usually give out a pretty lousy 1st impression.  VDG coming out from Boston to celebrate the celebrations and bringing the tasty bubbly y agua.

kindof looking at the whole thing as a non-milestone. its been said that 30 is the new 20. maybe that's not just wishful thinking after all.

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my old doggy dilemma is over. our final decision was made yesterday and it was for the best. and kinda surprisingly it was my irresponsible brother that took the initiative in saying what had to be said and pretty much we all agreed with him. it was time to let elmo go. he just wasn't living the way a dog should. he was too old and too sick to manage even the basic stuff. so yeah this is the first doggy heartbreak for the barrera family. farewell loyal and true elmo, always scared the shit out of the mailman and neighborhood cats. he is gone but not forgotten *pics below are from last year

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i've had a rough couple of days.

my poor dog elmo is quite old. roughly 14 yrs old which is about 98 in dog years.

so monday he was totally listless, not eating or drinking water, just laying in his dog bed.
i decided to take him to the vet next morning, a vet which he hasnt seen in near forever.
yeah we don't visit a vet on the regular cause yeah, we just dont do that kinda thing

anyhoo the vet says he's dehydrated and has a fever and yada yada they gotta put an IV in him and give him antibiotics and what not and do tests to see whats wrong. but prognosis is not good to very bad. sigh...

i go to work that day and am totally hanging on to my sanity with my fingernails. i called the doc for a status report at 3 and they tell me he's got tumors in his lungs and liver and prognosis is very bad, will he make it thru the night? who knows? i'm supposed to come in this morning and we'll be making decisions.

we as in me, my bro and lil sis roll into the vet this morning at 9. expecting the worst. and doc comes out and says that elmo's looking good. we see him sitting in the kennel with a sad expression until he sees us and tries to get up to say hello.

sure he need's help getting up but he's able to stand and drinks water even though he's got an IV in him. doc shows me the x-rays with the bad stuff going on in his lungs and liver and yeah pretty much tumors and long term prognosis maybe sooner or maybe later buy not much longer left, maybe not the rest of the year. but at least he can go home with us today. which he did. he's chillin in his dog bed now. i paid a grip and i've got meds and vitamins for him...

sigh

my nerves feel shot. dog is home, but hasnt shown an interest in eating. i hope things work out for the better but im still expecting the worst. cautiously optimistic... meh

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was it a merry x-mas? i think subdued merry-making is still pretty good

no x-mas parties or x-mas eve family get togethers, we're not into those type shennanigans like other filipino fams.
renee and i spent the better part of x-mas eve looking for a meat thermometer for the roast we were going to have the next day. several ralphs and jons and cvs and finally a last ditch trip to food4less in the hood yeilded the elusive meat thermometer. we bought 2 just cause. along with some esentials for the potatoes and i got an assortment of eggo waffles to bring to the BBC Secret Santa to be held at andy's tomorrow, brunch-ish time. w00t!

anyhoo jamie came over x-mas eve to deliver the presents and i scored a new book and a very rad lego set

The Encyclopedia Shatnerica: An A to Z Guide to the Man and His Universe

Robert Schnakenberg

Lego4996

so i gave her 30 bucks in itunes gift cards and pushing daisies 1st season and renee gave her a mini burger's mold and the latest cooking mama game for wii which was quite difficult looking. then we played some rock band 2 where jamie was totally channelling gwen stefani singing a lot of the no doubt songs we had yet to play. and then she totally realized that eye of the tiger had very inspirational lyrics *duh... yeah she went for it 2x and closed out or set with it. she had work the next day with her home health job so we packed her a ham sammich and sent her on her way sometime around midnight i think?

Survivor-eye of d tiger

x-mas day of x-mas with the family was ultra low-key this year as is most years. no traditional presents under the tree or church goin'... unless my mom went which she probably did so, but quite early and she didn't drag any of us heathen chillun's wif her. i actually got up quite early like it was a work day and just shut off my alarms (plural) and went back to sleep.

renee and i helped her whip up the last parts for the x-mas luncheon, scalloped potatoes and sauteed mushrooms. and i periodically checked the roast in the oven with the damned meat thermometer we searched high and low for the night before. the roast came out great, not over cooked, just right. we had a portion of miz b's famed tyler florence inspired black mussels in a white wine curry saffron sauce along with the meat and mushrooms and taters and a little white wine goes good with the food.

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read a bit of the shatner book in bed and unintentionally took a nap, so i'm totally not sleepy right now, maybe i'll start in on that lego set... i dunno. i should get in on that elusive sleep that i don't get enough of but the prospect of making a very cute two story beach property, which would make a perfectly good 2nd home or investment property or time share seems to be calling to me.

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so my lil sister renee being the crazy concert go-er she is, saw snow patrol at jimmy kimmel on thursday, left for vegas on friday to see franz ferdinand, bloc party and the ting tings at hard rock and then flew to san diego today to see snow patrol again at the house of blues.

on sunday she got tickets for us to watch kroq's almost acoustic christmas, nite 2 baby! the show sold out in like 5 minutes but according to renee the trick is to have 2 different browser windows open, like say a internet explorer and a firefox to double your chances and also to only pick one ticket, which is why we won't be sitting or in most cases, standing beside each other at the concert. but hey vampire weekend, snow patrol, scott weiland, franz ferdinand, paramore, death cab for cutie, the killers, the cure...w00t w00t! im kinda meh on seeing scott weiland and especially bleh on paramore, so those will be our snack break sets. and planning to twitter up a storm between bouts or rawkin' out

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having some dubious breakfast comestibles on Thursday led to food poisoning kicking in at work at about 10 o'clock...
i threw up in the ladies room. not once but twice. not pretty. not fun. but at least i didn't get vomit in my hair or clothing... ah skillz... asked my boss to leave, which luckily i was granted, having serious pains and nausea i threw up before getting in the car, threw up in the trash bag i had in my car 2x before finally making it home to bed with chills and breaking out in a cold sweat and getting up every few minutes to empty myself of liquids. dozed off sometime and woke up by 6 something, nauseated, discombobulated and such but plans that night so i got cleaned up and made my way to LA to pick up uccloud9 for Ro's birthday celebration at Marix. which was chronicled by andy here.

the dinner was good from what i remember, i was in a bit of daze. hoping that i'd be well enough to do disneyland with elaine which luckily i was able to do, i am in the process of uploading the photos and video i took to my flickr account. it was a fun day, sunny but not to busy at the park for a friday. highlights include kicking elaine's but in buzzlight year, air conditioned rooms, racist fake parrots, dole whhhhiiip and pineapple juice, pirate hats and nightmare before christmas in the haunted mansion as andy used to say rocks my sock. elaine's the best disneyland tour guide ever and i think she twittered our whole time there. oddly enough, cell phone reception and interwebs connection sucked in the d-land and california adventure had a roaming high school musical 3 stage. ugh. this is the link to my d-land shots

i had japanese class saturday morning with some shodo which is japanese caligraphy and potluck. yeah im no artist when it comes to caligraphy, im sure any elementary school student in japan would totally kick my ass at it, tis not easy to use a brush and ink and make summat pretty kanji, we chose 4 character idioms from a little booklet my sensei put together, which was really pages off of a calendar like this one.
相思相愛 "To be in love with one another" makes for a cool tat i guess since this is about all i can find online for the saying. that and some song from a japanese band.

picked up renee from the flyaway this morning, she went to visit to see jason mraz and hang out with her friend aaron. she stayed at the palms which is apparently a hotel that caters to "bros" if you know what i mean. dudes, men that spend too much time with their hair and are not gay. like the guys you can see on www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com she said that though the staff was nice its very catered to bros as they have aveda products and 2 axe body sprays in the room. and the elevators to her room were right near ghostbar. anyhoo got home, had some lunch and promptly passed the fug out. catching up on some zzzzs. woke up in the early evening with a phone call from jen, she was at my door with the angry little asian girl tote bag jose got for me during the halloween sale at the ucla store. must schedule a hang out with those 2 sometime before the end of the month.  

10/11/08

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