Yo, Adrian

today was long. it was less of a today as it was a carryover of yesterday, sort of like a never-ending monday of doom, but with slightly less doom and more airplanes. in the night sky. like shooting stars? why did i do that? why do i do these things? i never know. so we flew from baltimore to newark at 6am on a super-cramped tiny jet for about 45 minutes, then we jumped on a big plane that was very empty to go to san diego for about 5 hours.

and i was behind a screaming french baby.

mind you, i have not slept since sunday night, and fully planned to sleep on the plane which i have become quite good at doing in the past few years. a baby i can handle, but a horrible indian woman that decided to play slash talk to slash attempt to calm down the baby with a very loud, piercing voice right next to me the entire ride... not so much. at one point i was just sitting there with my hat pulled over my eyes to shield them from the bright sun, looking very much like someone who did not want to listen to one child yelling at a baby that was probably scared out of his mind for 5 hours.

no, i didn't want that. i just wanted a little bit of sleep. i even looked at her a few times with the 'are you serious right now?' look, but it was clear that she didn't care at all. if i thought her english was good enough to understand, i probably would've said something, but she was just heinous as all get-out. blah. anyway, once we got here, we went to bronx for pizza which was delicious. then we drove to north county and we've just been relaxing and hanging out with my brother and the rest of my family all day. good times, good times. and now it's definitely time for sleep. so tired.

Hey, California...

i'll see you in a few hours! i'd blog more, but i've got a plane to catch.

Night Is Late

i've been sitting here trying to think of something to put in this box, but i just can't do it right now. i just can't. it's really late now, and i can't think straight for some reason. i'm so excited to be back in california, i think that is affecting my ability to sleep, and right now to think. yeah. it's going to be great. i hope i can think tomorrow, because i really need to finish my paper. and like, pass my class and stuff. i did some work tonight, way too late, because my mind won't stop working. these past few nights i just lay there in bed and it's moving 100 miles per hour. blah. time to try and sleep.

Wrong Battery

so after finding out that the battery i ordered over a week ago, which was the right battery, wasn't in stock, i re-ordered a different battery [which i thought was the same battery] from a different person that was stocked by amazon. i chose this one so it would get here today. it got here today, but it wasn't the right battery. i read the description wrong. so i ordered the right battery and i had it shipped to my parents' house, which defeats part of the purpose of getting the battery in the first place, which was being able to use my laptop on the plane.

but today my wife reminded me we'll be sleeping.

so i guess all's well that ends kind of well? yeah! that's what i'm sticking to. today was terrible and great at the same time. i couldn't sleep last night at all, so i spent most of today, until 4pm actually, trying to sleep. it didn't work. i should've given up by around noon, knowing i can't sleep with that much light pouring in the room. nothing worked. i should be way more tired right now than i am, but hopefully i'll be able to sleep tonight. but after i woke up, we went out to target and to dinner at this cool diner in parole. then we played wow, and steven got to raid, and we got to the lich king. it was fun! church tomorrow. exciting! goodnight.

p.s. i haven't gotten a comment in about a month now. if you're reading this, could you please leave one? thanks. i just like to know i'm not completely talking into the ether. granted, this is primarily for me, but i figure it's useful to tell people what's going on in my life. for those who care. and those who are bored. if you're either, just let me know. commenting is easy. this is 2010, if you don't have a gmail account to post on, you're just wrong.

Power

today i made this, which should come as less of a surprise to my regular blog readers [if i have any] because of yesterday's post. i'm just feeling a bit burnt out with production, my daily routine, and that video was a much needed creative outburst. i may be editing a sketch i did with my nieces last week to put up over the weekend as well, but we'll see how far into that i actually get. might not happen before vacation.

speaking of which, today was christin's last day of work for a while, which is great for her. she really needs the time off, away from her employer and the babies, because she's getting super stressed out about work. please pray for her in that area, she needs to gain her strength from the Lord and trust in His sovereign will for her guidance. it's good stuff. as for me, i may have a job when i get back from vacation, which is exciting. air balancing! ho! it's bedtime for me. relaxation tomorrow.

Blogging Sucks

it feels like every day is the same, because they all end the same. you'd think that would be a weird form of 'closure' [whatever that means] or something, but it's really not. it's almost like a back to reality moment where you realize the relative insignificance of a day in the life. weird. that's almost depressing. is it pensive, though? that's how i feel. not depressed, i think i'm just sort of settling into a routine, and it's not a routine i particularly enjoy. perhaps vacation will be a good break. perhaps getting a 'real job' after vacation will be a good restart.

Flim Flam Goodbye!

this morning, i was awoken by my lovely wife calling me and asking me to bring her food for lunch in an hour [forgot to set my alarm]. so i did! selby sub shoppe whooped up a delicious italian sub for her, and she enjoyed it while i sat with her and watched some youtube videos she was showing me. then i went off to work in downtown annapolis, walking up and down west street in the non-heat and non-humidity. loving it. getting me excited for next week, though it's been hot in california. i've almost forgotten what dry heat feels like.

downtown is cool. i don't talk about work much on here, but today was neat. it was mainly a photo gathering excursion, getting pictures for listings and checking out a few places that i hadn't been to previously. i can probably say now that i know my way around town a bit more. i love town. i can't wait to be a city dweller again. i was complaining the other day on facebook that i have to drive 15-20 minutes to town, the sure sign of a city dweller at heart. i miss hong kong. we may go visit new york city this winter if christin is being forced to vacation [again]. that will be nice.

Exacerbate

the box for cataclysm looks awesome. that's all i'm going to post about wow today, just for you folks out there who may be reading that don't play and get annoyed by it. ;-D today we went to see the expendables, which [as i said on twitter] was exactly what i expected it to be: a bunch of old action stars blowing stuff up. which is to say that it was awesome. we enjoyed it! we saw it at the mall after eating big easy, which was nommable bourbon chickentastic. we ran into my niece and her grandmother, followed by one of christin's old choir fans. good times.

after the movie, we came home and relaxed a bit together, before christin headed off to sleep. after she finally went off into sleepy-dreamy-land, i tried my best to catch up on youtube videos... but it seems that every time i try to do this, i get to about 2 pages and either stop watching or trail off into new videos by people i'm not subscribed to. or watching older videos by people i am subscribed to. anyone else do that? it's fun, but unproductive. sounds like my life! vacation soon. one week away! then when i get back, i need a real job. boo!

High Endurance

sometimes it's important to take some time off from thinking, worrying, working, stressing and just general living. today was one of those days where that was impossible. there's a situation with my wife's work which is particularly troubling. it's sad that there's really not much we can do in any sort of immediate sense, as her employer sort of runs our life at the moment. she pays our salary, she owns our house. it's too much to think about right now. i'm going to take a drive and try to clear my head a bit. i'll probably write a bit more and post this when i get back.

note: and of course, by the time i got home, i completely forgot about this and didn't even get on my computer to post it. just shut it off and went to bed. oh well. better late than never. the whole situation hasn't been resolved yet, but it hasn't progressed either. sorry for being cryptic, but if you want to know about it and you know christin and i personally, just contact one of us and we'll tell you about it. just best not to post it publicly.

Illinois River

so all day long, i've had this sara watkins cover of a john hartford song stuck in my head. it's quite amazing. you can hear it here, though sean's backing vocals kind of kill it because he clearly doesn't know the words. brother fail! speaking of brothers, i've been virtually [and by virtually, of course, i mean on the internets, not 'almost'] hanging out with my brother all day today and it's been cool. can't wait to get back to san diego and hang with him and my family and friends. hmm. i said that yesterday!

this morning's sermon was on the last petition of the Lord's prayer, more properly called the disciples' prayer, which is 'but deliver us from the evil one.' it's interesting how Jesus pairs the petition for God not to lead us into temptation, but to actually deliver us as well. these two are essentially the same desire, but i think it goes a bit further into the realization that we cannot hope to deliver ourselves from evil. we are easily led astray by temptation and require deliverance.

pastor taylor pointed out that neither can one of us escape from satan's ensnarement, our captivity to sin, just as well as all of us working together could not escape either. we are helpless on our own or in numbers. martin luther was right when he penned the words:

but still our ancient foe

doth seek to work us woe

his craft and pow'r are great

and armed with cruel hate

on earth is not his equal

that last line sounds wrong, but it's not. none is his equal. but keep reading the hymn for the good news of Christ's victory. He must win the battle. what an encouragement. anyway, that was my day and it was a great one. we had lunch at church after the service, tasty cheesy stuffed shells and chocolate cake. potbelly's for dinner, delicious stuff, and i grabbed two movie tickets at the discounted price so we can go see something next weekend. still can't decide between scott pilgrim and the expendables. i kind of want to read the s.p. comic first... we'll see. goodnight!

Queen Killer

today consisted of a lot of sleeping because i had a horrible, horrible night's sleep last night. this was followed by a lot of eating and a lot of video games with my lovely wife. even though we're just at the house, playing games together, it's time spent together and i'm really enjoying it. only one more work week for christin before her much needed vacation, then the fun starts. we're going back to san diego to hang with family and friends for two weeks, which is going to be quite lovely. i'm super excited for that.

christin got to raid with us again tonight, and she did great. considering she's a bit undergeared for icc, she did wonderfully and [as she says] 'only blew up the group once.' ;-D it was a good time, and she got tons of gear for her priestly. good times. i've been talking about wow a lot, because it's a lot of what we're doing lately. not much else to do, but we've got church tomorrow which is really good. i'm excited for that. it's bedtime.

note: epic no-post fails.

Cool Ain't Cool No More

wow! so today after work, i went to get christin's key remade [finally] and turn in our stuff for the reach program. that's a low-cost health care provider by the county, which would be great if we can get on, so i appreciate your prayers for that. then i came home and filmed for a while, then edited for a long while. the result is something i'm quite proud of! it's geekin' out! episode 3: star wars vs. star trek. check it out here. that took most of my energy for the day. after that, christin and i went on her first icc raid, and she got six upgrades! it was great. time for bedtime time.

Third Edition

i slept horribly last night. i went to bed just before 2am, which is early for me, because i'm trying to go to bed at 'a decent hour' for personal reasons. it didn't work so well. i couldn't sleep, i just kept waking up every 30 minutes until christin got up. then it was every hour. it was really hot for some reason, which i realized today is because someone turned the air conditioner off. crazy people. so now it's back on, and hopefully tonight will go more smoothly.

another new thing is that i'm forcing myself to get up early. i'm getting up with christin tomorrow which may be a challenge. the challenge is whether or not i go back to sleep once she's gone. since i have a lot to do tomorrow [to be contrasted with today, in which i did practically nothing], hopefully that will not happen. we'll see though. i've got some work to do, a sketch to film, and more youtube subscriptions to catch up on. i'm almost back down to 2 pages of subs now! yikes.

Download Destruction

tired morning.

canceled insurance.

walked dog. [wet dog].

drove downtown.

heard podcast.

annoying work.

stupid rain.

big easy.

bourbon chicken.

lush shampoo.

expensive medicine. [for animals].

lame locksmith.

german pub.

jack, coke.

beer, fries.

good times.

drove home.

played game.

silly wife. [tipsy wife].

sleeping wife.

daily quests.

mumble, matt.

artsy video.

artsy blog.

sleepy time.

Kung-Fu Bicycles

i melt faces. just got done playing my wife's character on world of warcraft to try and get her gear up to par for raiding [four upgrades in a few hours tonight] and it was a lot of fun. now it's really late and i need to get to bed. today i worked for a bit this morning and attempted to navigate the large and confusing downtown annapolis area. i also spent a good deal of time cleaning up the house in preparation for the dinner guest we had! i cooked spaghetti. it was nummy.

so yeah, our friend emily came over and told us all about being a missionary in pakistan, which was interesting and informative. she's a character. it's funny because she's a lot like christin and i in the way that she talks, and i'm almost not used to people bantering back when i make my random silly comments and stuff. it was a welcome change! usually it's just me and christin going back and forth but a new dynamic makes things interesting. ;-D all in all, it was a good day. tomorrow it's going to rain, which may make work annoying. i need an umbrella.

note: freaking post fail again.

Banjo Face Kazooie

music face is the new banjo face. today is one of those days where i don't feel like blogging, and i did so much that i don't feel like recounting it all. but alas, here i shall attempt a brief explanation and exposition! the most important thing that i did today was get new car insurance, which is great for many reasons, the best of which being that we are now getting better coverage and paying quite a bit less money per month. great news. i also got stuff together to apply for a health care service the state offers, did schoolwork, mowed the lawn, cleaned the bathroom and ran a few other errands. all in all, it was quite the eventful and productive day.

i apologize in advance for that first paragraph sounding like a third grader's rousing short essay about what he did for his summer vacation, complete with boring information and poor prose. the night was spent raiding [crimson halls down] which went quite well. our new raid team, which one-shot sindragosa last night, got to phase 3 of the lich king fight with everyone alive on our first night of attempts. i see the kingslayer title in my immediate future. i also got exalted with the ashen verdict, which gives me a stylin' new ring.

blogging about my day-to-day is boring, and blogging about world of warcraft is quite esoteric and also uninteresting for a lot of people. i'm not sure what i should be doing differently on days like this where i don't have much else to say. anything else i would've said here i said in today's buelification video, which you should check out. i'm not going to link it because i haven't uploaded it yet, but you can see the channel here. daily blogging. it's the pits! goodnight.

Location

this morning in church, we talked about temptation, which of course is something everyone can relate to. i say that as if there were any other topics that the gospel address that aren't of particular relevance to any one individual, but in this case Jesus is not the exception. even Jesus was tempted at all points, just as we are. pastor taylor emphasized the fact that there is still a tempter, the devil is real and he's not a cartoon character. God is not the one who tempts; satan is the tempter but we can resist his temptation if we are in Christ. those who are not are simply drawn to sin.

be still, my soul: your God will undertake

to guide the future as He has the past.

your hope, your confidence let nothing shake;

all now mysterious shall be bright at last.

be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know

His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.

we sang that hymn today [trinity hymnal #689] and the second verse stuck out for me for some particular reason. it's wonderful. after church, we went to have lunch with the fields' and i sat and talked shop with ken, who is one of the elders of our church. we went from federal vision to kline to homeschooling to excommunication and everywhere in-between. it was a good time. ;-D then we came home and relaxed and played games together. i had a good raid. and now it's time for bed! tomorrow, i've got a ton to do.

Are You There?

'i have nothing that is entitled to me, just a big hole in the ground and a separation that none could break. however, grace, grace has set me apart, and has given me a happy ending, a joyous victory to rejoice in.' reminding yourself of this regularly is the greatest step that can help to keep you from living outside of that victory. i know that i don't remind you of this enough, and i know i should be doing more and reminding even myself. but i am human, just like you. Lord, let our humanity fade into the background and let our eyes be fixed upon You.

Mon Coeur

oh me oh my, this was a busy day! i woke up and finished some work [school and otherwise] and at around 3pm i headed out to a friend's house with our neighbor and her little boy to help them pick out a kitten. so cute. we ended up there for almost three hours, and once i got home i headed out to get some food for christin and i to eat, since she was stuck at rhonda's late watching the kids while her and richard went out on a date [must be nice] for the evening. after eating and hanging a bit, i headed out to film, thinking my raid was canceled.

it wasn't, of course!

after an hour of driving around downtown annapolis looking for a place to park, i gave up and just decided to film at parole. i found a good spot anyway. the harbor was really crowded and flooded from the high tide, so it probably wasn't the best idea anyway. so at around 9pm i got the call that the raid was not off, so i finished filming after about a half hour and headed home to do some light laundry and some heavy wiping on the lich king. fun! not really. then christin came home and we played a bit before she headed to sleep and i headed to edit the sketch that was meant to be up.

i filmed the footage for the sketch i'm doing [which is really more of a parody than a sketch] and a vlog for my alternate channel containing something of a 'making of' video, behind the scenes and such, that i would edit together for today's video. unfortunately, i forgot about all the foley and audio production work i needed to do for this video, because i shot it for no sound on purpose due to its nature as a film noir parody. by the time i got finished editing, it was too late to do the recording, so i'm finishing tomorrow. so... tomorrow it is!

Vocabulary Processing

two words: nerd rage. it's that kind of night. first, this morning the power was out for about 3 hours which essentially made it pointless to be awake [and miserable to try and sleep, thanks to humidity as well]. so i tried to sleep until the fan came on, then i did sleep for a little bit. i woke up with that feeling you get when you know you're gonna be sick but you're not quite there yet. yeah, that's what it's been like all day long today. i feel alright, but there's that little feeling in the back of your throat that says 'i am going to unleash hell on you tomorrow.'

so i hope that doesn't happen tomorrow.

no tags in the mail, still. stupid california. going to call the dmv again tomorrow if they're not here in the post tomorrow. say tomorrow again, bud! tomorrow. done. i watched my first ever episode of doctor who today, which was the high point of my day. that and hanging out with my wife, who got to level 80 on world of warcraft recently [grats, aelanore] and we played a bit together. that was nice. she got some good gears. then i had an unfortunate mishap on my raid that i shouldn't have even bothered to go to in the first place. i'll spare you. tomorrow may be better! i hope so.

Slap Bracelets!

work work. zug zug. dabu. done building ship! i did like 7 listings today. well, rather, i did 4 listings and 3 of them don't exist anymore. sad times. but i still get paid at least a little bit when they waste my time by sending me to places that don't exist anymore. so that was good. today started with a lot of stress regarding the vacation we're taking at the end of the month [specifically the day we're getting back] but i think it just may work out to our advantage in the end.

i took a great nap today after work and caught up on my youtube subscriptions a bit. by 'a bit', of course, i mean that i got it down to two pages instead of four. progress! people just keep uploading more stuff and it gets so hard to get back on track. imagine what it would be like trying to keep up with like, an actual job and stuff that had like hours that i didn't set myself? weeeeeird. then i made christin stir-fry for dinner when she got back from the gym, which she said was good. i didn't eat it.

then after christin went to bed i got in a group for ruby sanctum and threw myself at a boss for like two hours and didn't kill it. that was annoying. the fight isn't really even all that hard at all. lich king is higher, and like 5 people in the group were kingslayers too. weird. at least i got three frost emblems out of the deal. *shrug* tomorrow is a new day! what a stupid saying. tomorrow i have some schoolwork to do, and possibly a video to make. i'm not sure what to do. i want to shave again, but i should do the button part 3 before i do. we'll see.

Just Down

i'm meant to be asleep right now, but i'm just not tired. i should be, but i'm not. yesterday's post was a lot longer than i had expected it to be, but yeah. not today, i'm thinking. i went to the store today and i bought like $70 worth of groceries because we haven't been shopping in weeks. buying healthy food is expensive, but hopefully rewarding in the end. when we get back from san diego, we [meaning my wife and i] are going on a 10-day cleanse and i'll probably quit soda again. that would be a good idea. we'll see how it goes in the end. goodnight.

Out For Track

this morning i woke up. wait, did i say morning? this afternoon i woke up and i walked the dog. i went to the mail and was upset that my registration tags are still not here. however, i noticed that i did get my final unemployment check, assuming the federal government chooses not to renew the fed-ed extension program. so i went out and deposited that check and paid my ridiculous $116 fine i got for having no registration, even though i did have registration but the state of california is run by idiots and employs idiots that don't know how to process forms and take 5 months to get me my freaking stickers and registration papers.

i'm not bitter.

after that, i did some schoolwork and ate a substantial amount of food with my regimen of dietary supplements aimed at relieving my gastrointestinal problems [probiotics, cranberry fruit pills, a fiber one bar and some acetaminophen]. then my wife came home and we played video games and got a pizza because we still haven't gone to the store since we've been back from ohio and pizza just sounded really good. it was. light sauce was a good choice. then christin went to bed and i raided.

did the narrative make my day sound more interesting than it actually was? sometimes i wonder about the effect that form has on content. tonight i wrote a 4-page 'research paper' [a.k.a. reference the textbook a bunch and quote one additional source so you get full credit — though i had two because i'm cool like that] on the use of technology in educational strategies for english language learner students and its impact on the classroom. i wrote it in less than an hour, and i turned it in at 11:59, literally the last minute possible.

procrastination, thy name is buel.

i'm also fairly certain that my skill at making painfully obvious and otherwise incredibly uninteresting writing topics into papers that make teachers squeal with academic delight will earn me full credit for my effort [if you can call it that]. here's hoping! those concerned that i'm 'throwing my education away by not working hard and trying' should note that this class is almost completely identical to one i took a few months ago. every class is the same old regurgitated drivel written by boring hacks that worship krashen and lend amateur suggestion to students who should know this shit by now. once again, i'm not bitter! ;-D see? the smiley face means i'm not bitter.

Adrienne

today was pure lethargy for the most part. i didn't go to church, again, for the fourth week in a row. it's starting to make me crazy. it's not so much that the pain is totally unbearable, it's more that it's so incredibly uncomfortable [in a very uncomfortable part of my body] that makes it so i really just don't want to be out in public like this. you know? yeah. it sucks, because i really wanted to go, too. i am having trouble sleeping because of the uncomfortable aspect as well.

so i slept for a long time today, and once christin got home i got up and we hung out a while and ate food and played video games together because we're huge nerds. christin is rapidly approaching level 80, which is cool. we cleared out 8/12 in icc-10 tonight on a fresh clear. blood prince council was just owning us, and we failed the weekly miserably, so we just went in and smashed super lame leviathan for the other weekly. tier 10 costs way too many frost badges. aiya. schoolwork tomorrow and work on tuesday.

Tell That Homeboy

you are so dumb. you are really dumb. for real. if you don't get that reference, you need to watch this video now. like right now. like stop reading this and go watch it right this moment. done? good. yeah right, like anybody's gonna come back to read this crap after they've seen the genius of the bed intruder song. ;-P i can't believe last night's post was so long. i guess i had more to say than i thought i did afterall. tonight's a different story though, because today was quite dull.

today was a lazy day, mostly tasked with trying to help myself feel better. i had a heating pad on my lower abdomen pretty much all morning, and spent a lot of the day lazing about with christin, watching the first season of hell's kitchen [which we finished]. then we played some wow together before my raid, which was simultaneously enjoyable and irritating. we're working on the lich king [10 man] and it's harrrrrd. but tonight, for the first time, we got to a solid phase 3 attempt and got owned by the spirit thingies. too esoteric? i'll stop now.

No Failure

hello again, faithful blog readers. this is going to be another one of those late night phone blogs, but this time i promise not to fail and actually post it for realsies this time. okay? okay. typing with my phone is a whole lot easier when i put it down on something and type with my index fingers in landscape mode. i feel like my mom, because this is how she types on a real computer. only much slower. ha! now that i have managed to spend an entire paragraph talking about typing on a phone, let's actually get into my day! ha! what a novel concept.

so today we spent a good three hours combined going to and at the mva, and all we have to show for it are these crappy $45 licenses. actually that is rather good, considering it establishes us as residents of the state, which means we can vote and get health insurance or other coverage. we didn't qualify for medi-cal when we lived in california, but we are going to try and get on the state insurance here instead.

christin caved and stuck with the republican party, even though she is basically a libertarian like me. she wants to be able to vote in the primaries, and i really don't blame her at all. it sucks that i can't, it bums me out every year. oh well. at least now if ron paul runs in 2012 she can vote for him in the primaries again. anyway, after the mva we went to lunch, hung out at lush for a bit and saw a movie. then i went home and napped a bit, or tried to, while christin visited her parents. then i ran icc-10 with my normal group and we actually got the lich king to phase three once! progress.

i am still in a load of pain, so i dunno if i am going to rainbow bridge fest tomorrow after all. sad times. wow, this entry actually ended up being quite a bit longer than i expected, and actually longer than most of my recent entries at all hot diggity! time for bed, this time with a heating pad to hopefully male the pain disappate quicklier. not a word! it is if i say it is. goodnight, everybody!

I Want Them To Hear You

right now, my wife is watching these ridiculous videos of the 'dun goofed' girl and her crazy dad on tinychat. wow. there are a lot of these. i just heard her say 'i'll curbstomp ya, dad.' ahh, american families today. so today, my car passed inspection. now all we need to do is spend like all day at the mva [the dmv for all you california people] tomorrow and get the cars titled/registered in maryland and get new licenses. oh yeah, and pay way too much money for all of that. ;-P

i've got some major gas pain or something in my abdomen right now, it started yesterday. this has happened exactly like this before, and it just kind of went away on its own after a while, but this time it hurts quite a bit more than last time. blah. i thought for a little bit that it may be kidney stones, but that would hurt on my back. so yeah, i dunno what it is. one of the first things we'll be looking into after becoming full residents of maryland is health coverage. not having it is terrible. so yeah, i'm not looking forward to tomorrow. we'll see how it goes.

Quite Late

today has been a long day, and it's ridiculously late right now. i'm writing this from my phone, so yeah. jeep passed today, going to take the mazda in tomorrow to see if we can get our registration done on friday. i'm pretty excited about that. anyway, that's all for now. i'll write more about it tomorrow. goodnight.

edit: so i go to post today's blog... and i hit save on this one last night instead of post. fail. i am such a failure. shoot me!

Going To Regret This

another night in which i start writing this blog too late and will probably end up with one paragraph because i need to be up in 5 hours. aiya. today was a day, filled with driving and frustration but in the end there was a good bit of happiness. turns out i don't need a new muffler, i'm getting christin's jeep inspected tomorrow and my mazda on thursday. also, window tint is surprisingly annoying to remove from a car. especially the back window! hopefully the 100 degree weather tomorrow will help make that a bit easier than it was today!

tomorrow i get to get up and take christin to work early, then drop off her car to be inspected. then i get to wait around while they inspect it, bring it back home [hopefully it will have passed] and get back to work peeling off tint. yay, tint! i've been keeping up pretty well with the daily vlogging, and christin is doing well also. like 4 of my friends are doing it. crazy! i basically extended my job, i'll be working in downtown annapolis now because the parole area site is almost ready for launch. they've asked me to do video too, but i don't know about the pay vs. effort scale. we'll see. goodnight!

Some Water

now that i'm actually vlogging about what i'm doing daily, i wonder how my blogs will react? most likely they will just end up being shorter. that's alright, i suppose, because you can always just go watch the videos. today i did a lot of stuff, including much faxing and driving and talking and lots of waiting on hold with the california dmv. i also determined that christin and i will, for sure, be in california for vacation from august 31st to september 13th! how's that for excitement? i'm stoked. make plans with me! yeah! i'm tired. bedtime.

Kanye Laser

yeah, it's been one of those days. what of those days? which of those days? don't make me ask it again in a different way, just read what i have to say. hey! rhyming happens sometimes. i make it so. i just drank a lot of sugar, but it's bedtime. i shouldn't do that. i'm limiting myself to 6 hours of sleep per day from now on, because i've been sleeping way too much lately. we'll see how that goes in the morning, but i think it'll be fine.

trying to plan a vacation is stressful. that doesn't sound like it should be true, but it totally is. is it really worth it once the plan comes together, if and when it actually does? anyway, we're working out what we're going to be doing for the two weeks christin is being forced to take off in early september, and it's kind of annoying. our whole family is going to hawaii, but i think it's just going to be too expensive for us to join them, even with a little financial help on their end. it's still gonna be like a grand. and i don't have a grand.

the other option was to do the wizarding world of harry potter, which would be wonderous. it is my birthday thereabouts, so it would be sort of like a birthday thing. we may just do that, but even that is quite expensive. i'm not sure how it's going to work out. i just hope we don't end up staying at home for two weeks essentially doing nothing. that would be incredibly dull. well, it would still be fun because we have each other, but it may be incredibly depressing because, well, we only really have each other. i miss my friends in california, but i don't miss california at all.