douche bag

Thursday night's holistic health class provided some unfullfilled comic relief when the instructor started talking about one of panchakarma's therapies, the enema. She mentioned that one can buy an enema bag at any Walgreen's or Longs and told the ladies how it's very similar to a "douche bag," used for the times when they don't feel fresh down there. I watch too much "South Park" or comedies or heard too many jokes regarding the words "douche bag" that it took all my strength and energy to not burst out laughing because she just blurted it out in a "real life" context without any warning and with a straight face. I didn't even manage a shoulder shake; quite an accomplishment. Yah, I'm immature.

the bitch sessions

I'm in such a fowl mood right now. The whole day was fucked. I woke up sometime around 10:45am. Debated whether I should go back to bed to shake off that last piece of tired, but decided to fight through. I planned so many things to do, but wound up chatting online for oh, close to two hours.

On a positive note, I made two hours worth of progress on transferring the 1988 Olympic track and field footage from VHS to DVD. I need to finish this project before the end of May, so I can hand it off to that guy Steve from Indiana, that one who let me borrow his other track and field tapes.

Feeling tired sucks, all day I felt all dark and sluggish inside, unmotivated to study, or unsure how to make use of the day.

After finally showering at 7pm, I started to pack up for my trip to the EG, and then the stress and anxiety of moving hit me hard. I read before that a person who moves something like five times in within ten years will suffer from stress, big time. So thinking about that stressed me out even more. Moreover, not knowing where I'm moving to pissed me off. Should I ask if I could change my lease to a month-to-month, or do I move to EG for two months and go back closer to school when school starts up again, or do I do this or do that?

I'm really unpleasant to be around with right now. Poor Roomie.

phew

Yesterday my printer was on the fritz, but today, it's working ok. I did a couple of test prints and no paper jams. What a relief since I really can't afford to purchase a new one anyway.

Yesterday, Roomie's berfday gift to me, a Tivo, arrived via UPS. I actually bought it through costco.com because they offered a huge mail-in rebate of $150 from the original price of $209. The package's original delivery date was on Monday, but I already went to class before UPS arrived. Luckily, the driver came back on Tuesday before I left.

I do have beef with the UPS because their business model suits other businessess better than home deliveries. I mean, for example, what's the point of ordering something online and getting the package delivered to your home via a service that only comes during their business hours? Most people work and are away from home, so you either have to redirect the pacakge so you can pick it up at one of the UPS hubs, which is usually located in some obscure area miles from where you live, or have it shipped to another location. In my case, my parents' home in the AC which I only get to visit a few times a month. That's why i almost never ever order stuff online. I like to get my shit right then and there. I don't have the patience to wait and pay extra for shipping.

sacratomato

Fun times in Sacramento today. Roomie and I took advantage of the ok weather, although the forecast predicted thunderstorms, and headed to Old Sacramento. After a quick drive around the area, while looking for parking, I decided that the area didn't seem to offer much except specialty shops after specialty shops, so off we went to the state capitol instead.

Fun times at the capitol, and it was free! We strolled outside and inside, admiring the architecture and design.

One of my favorite attractions inside were promotional displays by each of California's counties. This one is of San Bernardino, which I found out today is the largest county in all of the 48 contiguous states. Who knew?

After all that, I finally bought a new pair of sunglasses that look more of the times. Even though they're really tight against my temples and my pinoy nose doesn't really have a bridge to hold it up, I thought it looked good, ha! That was really exciting. I also bought a new pair of slip-on shoes that can hold my orthotics...boo-yah!

not too happy berfday

With chicken pox sidelining me, I couldn't celebrate my birthday. Roomie did take me to go see Mathew Bourne's "Swan Lake" last night, but I really didn't enjoy the show that much. However, after the show, we stopped by Tower Records and probably chilly night air didn't bode well for my already compromised health system.

So then today, I planned to spend time with family in the AC, and they even ordered food and such. But I had to cancel all that because I freaked out that I may get someone else sick with the pox, so I didn't want to risk it. I felt too weak to make the drive up anyway, so with that disappointment, and the disappointment in my mom's voice, I spent the whole darn day all alone cooped up in my studio apartment.

happy birthday!

it's funny

Now that I'm not working anymore, I hardly have time to read blogs. I haven't read other people's blogs in like a month, now hardly have time to update my own. Part of the reason for not updating is because as a full-time student, not much really happens but study and go to class, in my case at least. I don't party like those young'uns do.

While I worked at my last job, there was always some down time I can devote to reading blogs, which was latest passion, er hobby, rather, since I discovered blogging last summer. Now I feel overwhelmed just by the thought of going back to the archives of my favorite blogs and reading a ton. I guess my motto for this is "little by little," or "day by day."

vacation, a week ago

It was the first time in a long time that Roomie and I vacationed together. Road trip from Elk Grove to SoCal on the 5:

1. My first ever experience with cruise control; makes a world of difference when the road is long with not much turns in between. Cruise control saves your feet, legs and knees from gas pedal fatigue, so you feel much more relaxed and refreshed when you arrive at your destination!

2. Watched Leila perform a "practice" acoustic session at Borders in Glendale. Awesome, she sounds even better live.

3. An old nemesis resurfaces. Who knew he was here in America, I thought he was stuck on the other side of the world! Good thing he hasn't aged that well. Punk ass.

4. I adore cute and talented children.

5. Not much into shopping these days. The trip to the Cabazon outlets only cost Godiva chocolates to give away. Roomie scored better with a couple of shirts and a bow-tie for an event.

6. The new "Pink Panther" wasn't as torturous to watch as I thought. Good thing we saw it for free thanks to downloading from the internet.

7. It really does feel weird when someone you love or someone close is suffering from the horrible side effects of chemotherapy.

8. I couldn't say no, it was just impossible to say no to Roomie as he dragged me to my former nemesis's home because he threw a party. Fortunately, the guests were entertaining.

9. Seeing my nephew in the hospital in pain because of hunger and fatigue because they kept postponing his surgery broke my heart.

10. Toll roads in Orange County totally rock! They should make some of those for up here in the Bay Area, but yeah, that might suck for the environment. But then again, I would totally pay to drive up to the AC or the EG. I can only dream.

11. Roomie wanted to go to Newport Beach's Fashion Island. At a gallery, I fell head over heels with this:
It's called "Claude's Exercise in Color Theory" by Mark Kostabi.

12. Again, toll roads rock.

13. Staying up real late with my niece and her bf until 5:30am the "night" before driving back north probably wasn't a good idea, but it was worth it.

14. Driving the seven hours back because of rain when you're tired from staying up until 5:30am sucks because all these emotions demand your attention and devour lots of good energy. I missed my family terribly on the drive back, and I came to the realization that vacations come and go so fast when it's really super good, and that I had to come back to reality with working on school projects during spring break, and what a bummer that is. Time just flew!