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another month has come and gone, and a happy reformation day and halloween was wished today. tomorrow is my mom's birthday, too. woo! i slept through my alarm and christin noticed but made the unfortunate assumption that i was doing so purposefully in order to skip church. this was not the case, but we never the less ended up skipping church by virtue of the fact that by the time i saw the clock in a conscious state, it was already 11:30. good times. we spent most of the day doing halloweeny stuff, like carving pumpkins and playing with dry ice. the carving was fun, the dry ice was fun but full of fail.

my tiny azn smiley pumpkin, which can be seen above, was pretty amazing. but you know that now because you're looking at it. just look at how awesome it is! we handed out candy to the kids, made a failure of a witch's brew, watched the amazing race [go team jumba! third place!] and played wow for a bit. both of us were working on world explorer on our horde characters. i dunno which of us will finish first! so yeah, it was a good day, despite missing church. this week, i have to register the car [the title came through], write and record some music, and look look look for a job. not necessarily in that order, of course. oh yeah, and make videos.

Coozie Pumpkin

oh, i slept so late today. it was wonderful. christin woke me up around three and we watched some teevee for a little bit before heading up to becky's house for board games and general weirdness. we got pizza on the way, and it was delicious. christin got yoohoo for her and becky, which i don't get because i think it's absolutely disgusting. we noticed about halfway through monopoly that the bottle had 54 grams of sugar in it. that's quite disturbing. christin had two... so there you go. the sugar must have increased her die-rolling ability by +5 though, because she totally slaughtered me and becky at monopoly.

i still own her face at words with friends, though.

that pretty much sums up the evening. after monopoly, we watched grey's anatomy and talked and all that good stuff. now we're home and i need to sleep because we've got church in the morning. it's reformation day! and halloween as well, but you know, priorities. happy anniversary to matt and nikki, it's their first one. good times. sleep sounds like a good idea at the moment. i slept terribly this morning because it was just so freakin' bright. the window in this room is in the worst possible position. maybe we should get a tiny house after all... haha.

Good Morning, Tucson!

yes, this blog is late, and yes it is retroactively dated for the sake of convenience and due to the fact that it is indeed a blog entry for the 29th. if i had gotten back to my house earlier than 6am, i would have certainly posted it last night. so there ya go. my drive up to newark was not too bad, but was considerably complicated due to the fact that ticketmaster is a cruel mistress. it's as if it weren't bad enough that they charged me over $15 in fees, but they had to make me stop at some random department store i had never heard of in new jersey to print my tickets because apparently the ticketmaster outlets down here couldn't do it.

i got to newark penn station exactly 2 minutes late for my train, which sucked pretty hard. so once i caught the next train into the city, i got to experience my first time in new york running down 7th avenue at 7pm, late for the show i had just traveled for 5 hours to get to. it was overwhelming and i thought i had gotten off a 20 minute train ride and landed back in hong kong. pretty nuts. it's just like it, only a lot bigger, a bit less cluttered, with metal scaffolding instead of bamboo. oh yeah, and considerably less asians but just as many middle easterners.

once i got to the best buy theater, searched by the security guy right after a dude dressed up as harry potter [so i knew i was in the right place], i headed in and fortunately had only missed the opening monologue by joco [as wil wheaton] and the first paul and storm song. fortunately i've seen both of them already, so i didn't miss a whole lot. plus i can probably look that part up on youtube. everything about the show was awesome, especially the talk from grant imahara on being c-3po, marian call's amazing performance, hearing a new joco song before anyone else, and seeing a dude dressed as jareth from the labyrinth. awesome.

after the show, i caught up with mike lombardo, geeky piano musician extraordinaire, and his friend kaitlyn [or caitlyn?] whom i probably should recognize from youtube but i actually don't. she was nice anyway. ;-P we hung out after the show and chatted about music and celebrity and non-celebrity celebrity [internet 'stardom'], which was cool. then i headed back to the train and drove home way too late. that was pretty much my day. it was fun, stressful at times, expensive as hell, but very much enjoyable. sucked that christin couldn't come. next time!

Big Fat Negative

i woke up earlier today than i probably should have, and i made the unfortunate mistake of staying awake after walking the dog. most of the day was spent reading my textbook, doing more dishes [a common theme at this point] and making christin a brown bag lunch. big ham sandwich, orange, bag of chips, chocolate bar, all in a brown bag from lou's. good times! she said she felt like she was on a picnic, which is what i was going for. just like making her feel special at times. i took the lunch to her and spent some time with her and the babies before going back to the house after a cheese log break.

mmm. cheese logs.

christin called her doctor about the blood tests she had done, and they all came back negative. this should be a good thing, except there was one test she was kind of hoping would come back positive. i'm sure she'll be blogging about it soon, so i'll spare the depressing details, but we didn't have the best night tonight. we did manage to watch the big bang theory and community [thanks to shrek being aired on nbc and going late] which was cool. i played a bit of wow after that and now i'm typing this before i head off to sleep. yep, that's about it.

oh. i didn't do a video today. that's probably not good. i wasn't inspired, i wasn't motivated, i just didn't care enough to make it happen today. i've been tired all day and i'm tired now. tomorrow i will be waking up at a reasonable hour [read: before noon] and driving up to the big apple for the first time ever. don't worry, i'm not driving in new york, i'm taking the train in from newark. it should be a good time, i'll be attending w00tstock, which will be awesome despite the fact that wil wheaton won't be there. he's busy! but joco is filling in, which is sweet. excited! bedtime.

Yorever Foung

yeah. going through hundreds of listings on craigslist and only finding one or two that aren't scams and are jobs i'm qualified for... can be kind of disheartening. i think i'll be heading to a job placement agency on monday. we'll see how it goes. i saw a job while searching for someone in davidsonville, which is not too far away, who is looking for a nanny for twin girls. haha. go figure, right? cleaned up a bit around the house, did some dishes, played some wow, looked for jobs. lather, rinse, repeat. my life is kind of dull right now. perhaps tomorrow will be more interesting.

SKU 30862265

i've been sitting here staring at this blank window for about 30 minutes now, and i'm no closer to figuring out what i want to say. today, instead of going to a movie [as is our custom on tuesdays] we stayed in and ate spaghetti. i make awesome spaghetti sauce, but tonight's meal wasn't as good as it could have been. i just don't like wheat pasta for speghetti noodles, it tastes like nothing. penne is okay, stuff like that, but not noodles. it's just weird. anyway, we finally watched some more grey's anatomy and we're one episode short of finishing the first season. yep.

how boring is my life?

played a bit of wow tonight. it's interesting how we do things that aren't fun in order to do things that will be fun once we've done those unfun things. and how some people do the unfun things for so long that they get caught up in getting them done that they've forgotten what they were working toward in the first place. they forget about the fun. people like that should not play mmos. i am not like that, but i see so many people who are driven only by gain gain gain, and they seem to have forgotten about fun. anyway, i'm just spinning my wheels, gearing up my warlock to level for some rated battlegrounds in cataclysm. now that will be fun.

Finders Are Opened

today was quite dull for me. i spent a lot of it playing with specs and doing some heroics on my old main character in wow, my warlock, and it was cool. got to chat it up with my friend chris, who is spending an exorbitant amount of time performing mindless tedium to get an achievement that will no longer be in the game when cataclysm hits. pretty funny if you ask me. ;-D he's a very driven individual, i'll say that much. christin was gone almost the whole day, between work and her job interview, and she came home in time for us to not watch house [but catch up on the big bang theory which was excellent]. but it's okay, it was a repeat.

christin's interview went really well, and she's pretty confident she has the job for sure. this would be a great thing for her, and for me as well, as it will pay a bit better than what she has now and give her a bit more time in the week and flexibility. also, the lady is not insane. that's a plus. she is still waiting to hear from the medical job, which she applied for tonight, so there's always that too. i still haven't heard from the produce company, which is disheartening, so i'll be applying it up so crazy again this week. *sigh* anyway, yeah. not a very interesting day.

note: christin informed me today [in words with friends, of all places] that i hadn't posted this blog last night. i am a failure! i think i intended to write more but never did and got sidetracked. that's very possible. in fact, it's certain. sorry for the failblog... dot org!