tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4986123212750244732024-02-20T05:28:15.528-08:00sweepinthecityjust finding my place...BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-15935054321431633472009-11-07T01:42:00.001-08:002009-11-07T01:47:08.971-08:00awesome daytook jamella to work<br />24 hour fitness- met with a personal trainer, killed my legs, according to calipers i have 12.9 body fat<br />napped<br />picked up jamella with matt<br />great wall- jamellas dentist is there<br />ikea- got an end table, ate swedish meatballs, also got a wok<br />drove local via matt aka gps with my old iphone<br />frys- got a wireless keyboard and mouse to use with the bigscreen<br />target- looked at lamps decided to go to bed bath and beyond<br />drove 405, 520, accidentally exited on montlake instead of getting onto 5<br />bed bath and beyond northgate- got a lamp<br />target northgate- had to get lightbulb, found equal lamp for cheaper<br />bed bath and beyond- returned lamp<br />home- puppy is no longer a puppy, little red stains everywhere<br />put together lamp and table and used wireless stuff<br />watched paul blart mall cop<br />watched the office<br />watched pineapple express<br />today was awesomeBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-21858668339571662632009-09-11T04:10:00.000-07:002009-09-11T04:13:04.745-07:00ups and downsi'll be completely honest, i was getting concerned with the way i had been feeling lately with life and with jamella. But i figured out with help from a coworker that my small insecurities with life right now were what were causing me to overthink my relationship security. Things are good for me now, i'm back to happy go lucky and am happy to be where i'm at with jamella. My big two three if now officially a day away and i get to go to the huskies game thanks to lib. Hopefully i don't get called into workBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-58188695442519265872009-09-06T02:19:00.001-07:002009-09-06T02:21:47.302-07:00';hlkgfjdhgthe new school year is fast approaching and i'm not going to be a student for the first time since 1992<br /><br />things are getting confusingBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-80071744838676884472009-07-15T01:45:00.000-07:002009-07-15T01:47:06.996-07:00seven monthstime flies, it really does<br /><br />to celebrate we went to see ice age 3d, then went to sushiland, hit up kerry park, then cooked honey walnut shrimp yummmmm<br /><br />it was a great day, and many many more to come<br /><br />"it's their wedding anniversary, their seven month wedding anniversary"<br />-danBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-79502099410702501352009-07-05T03:41:00.001-07:002009-07-05T03:45:16.028-07:00independence daywoke early... 10:30<br />korean bbq at the house a la daikon's parents, watched the mariners game, it was awesome to hear a loud cheer out of everyone when we took the lead<br />pitch and putt with jaja, matt, james and dan. did not have a very good shooting day but still fun none-the-less<br />baskin robbins to get ice cream from daikon<br />home to bbq some fourth of july food, bratwurst, hotdogs, crankin the music, chillin out with everyone (matt, bobbo, james, dan, jaja, maggie, howie, john bang)<br />basketball at greenlake, dan is a beast with a smoooooth shot<br />up to lynnhood to dan's parent's place, made our show a good one, maybe didn't have quite enough but it was some good pyro fun for a solid hour, shot many a mortar<br />toured the house which is almost exactly the layout of the one we want<br />back to the linden house to watch independence day<br />a fitting endBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-60487544970860108702009-07-02T03:28:00.000-07:002009-07-02T03:31:23.506-07:00lovin lifetoday was a good day<br />got out on the raft with matt, rachtha and maggie, floated and swam around the lake, got sunburned<br />ate at appethai with everyone plus jamella<br />took a sweet nap<br />played ball, we lost when we should've won, meh, still fun<br />went to tia's bday thing at kenmore lanes, met some cool people, bowled a 178<br />watched superbad with the roomies, even if 3 of the 5 decided to sleep before it was over<br /><br />only bad part was feelings from the past like to rear their ugly heads at the oddest times, like watching superbad, shit still hurts man, shit still hurtsBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-24823779701368907562009-07-01T02:48:00.000-07:002009-07-01T02:51:31.119-07:00alwaystend to get hurt<br />but i love playing basketball so much<br />another new injury this time, took a knee to knee on the proximal head of my left fibula<br />that was killer, i couldn't walk and still can't really put a lot of pressure on it<br />hopefully i can play ball tomorrow night<br /><br />life is a little bit more fun now that i have my carBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-90646266705188982502009-06-22T11:15:00.001-07:002009-06-22T11:23:44.309-07:00lifekind of came into a state of boredom immediately after graduation. my sleeping patterns have turned for the worse, but yesterday broke the monotony of the grad life<br /><br />but yesterday was fathers day. didn't get much sleep and had to catch the 845 ferry. Turns out my dad had gone to church with the mom last night so i decided instead of church i would sleep since i had to drive btown to seattle later. but first i went and picked up the book of seattle sports lists (which i lost last week on the ferry) and gave it to my dad. He completely thought i was getting it again for myself.<br /><br />My dad made the comment of being sad i was taking the car, because its his favorite car, which kind of made me sad to take it. I took his favorite car on fathers day :( But he'll see plenty of it in the future<br /><br />the drive was horrible, the people who painted the doors left this weird film on the windshield and wipers, and when i drove through the rain my visibility was so bad. And then i hit the really hard rain and could hardly see, and then i hit the standing water on I-5 and was hydroplaning for like 10 miles straight, thunder and lightning, that was a crazy washington storm<br /><br />workworkwork later<br /><br />poker at emil's. tournament style threw me off a lot, but i somehow made it to the final two, but i was down huge to emil and it was winner take all. Easily 16-1 chip advantage for him. He let me get off easy the first couple hands, and then i started catching everything, made the right moves. Before you knew it I had come all the way back into a slight chip lead (two pair after the flop twice in a row). Slightly after that a Q10 hearts vs an AJ off-suit would decide it. Hit that queen on the flop and no help came for emil, what a run<br /><br />having a car has so many damn advantages, now i need to just not get into an accident, not hit anyone, not get a ticket and pay for gasBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-40221237503953336952009-06-16T23:59:00.000-07:002009-06-17T00:02:35.202-07:00Jamella and i have been together for six months now. I am the happiest ive been in a long time. Im at amber right now with the homies and they only way it would be better is if jamella was here. Happy six months baberzBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-79716347859720822822009-06-15T01:01:00.000-07:002009-06-15T01:02:24.215-07:00graduationit came and went, it seemed like it took forever for the last few days to pass, and now its over. I'm have officially made it through four years of college.<br /><br />i worked my first shift at spag as a college grad<br /><br />and jamella and I have been together for six months as of yesterday, crazy crazy crazyBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-21049627227359938382009-06-07T01:34:00.001-07:002009-06-07T01:35:21.962-07:00its overI took my spanish final today, the last final of my undergrad career, maybe my education career<br /><br />it started to hit me while i was at work, when i realized that i didn't have to go home and study or do any homeworkBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-67078159643850205502009-06-04T00:18:00.000-07:002009-06-04T00:20:12.953-07:00so closeTonight was Fil Grad. The first of three graduation ceremonies for me. It really put things into perspective, how this whole journey through education is coming to a close. But like all of the speakers said tonight, its just the beginning of the journey, i don't leave my legacy, i take it with me.<br /><br />congrats to all of tonights FASA grads and to anyone else graduating in 2009BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-44553596547779105102009-05-13T01:10:00.000-07:002009-05-13T01:13:46.760-07:00observation(s) from spagI finished my second day of server training today. Yesterday was food running which was nice, basically just nonstop taking food out and cleaning in the kitchen.<br /><br />today was my bar class and starting on serving. Glad i got to work with mike today rather than tom (i get tom tomorrow), mike is a lot more chill than tom, probably the most of anyone in the restaurant. I kind of feel like serving there is a controlled madness. Basically you have complete control on your section, save for the fact that other people may bring out your food for you. But while you have this control, there is so much going on around you that its just like madness, but its madness that you don't have to deal with really so its cool.<br /><br />so far its fun, i feel like i would have hated serving in silverdale, but here is really nice. Sections are set pretty well, theres plenty of staff who are almost always willing to help. <br /><br />Theres so much I didn't know about working there while I was just a busserBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-67315169493285874432009-05-01T01:06:00.000-07:002009-05-01T01:09:10.934-07:00esto es...Muchos de los argumentos tienen puntos de la personalidad que personas que tienen hermanos. Pero yo soy un hijo único. Yo tengo dos padre y mis amigos. Muchos de mis tíos y tías viven en otros países y por lo tanto mi personalidad formo a mis experiencias con mis padres y mis amigos.<br /> El mejor ejemplo de un rasgo de mis padres es que ellos son muy conservadores. Pienso que es un producto del año que mis padres nacieron. Los dos nacieron en los 1940s, una época muy conservadora. Y yo nací en una familia católica, un religión conservador. Pero también mis padres me ayudan mi personalidad social. Siempre me enseñaron que bebiendo las bebidas alcohólicas y fumando son muy malos y también jugando dinero no fue bueno. A este día nunca he fumado y no me gusta beber bebidas alcohólicas. A veces bebo pero no mucho.<br /> Mis padres también me ayudan ser una persona optimista. Me enseñaron a hacer siempre mí mejor a todas las cosas, en la esquela, en la música o en otras cosas como deportes. Los dos de mis padres nunca trabajaron a trabajados extraordinarios pero siempre hizo bien y trato de ser como ellos. <br /> Cuando fui un niño ser tímido. Pienso que es porque soy un hijo único y no tuve hermanos a jugar. En el cuarto grado empecé jugar al basquetbol en una liga de la ciudad. Me encontré personas diferente de mi esquela y empecé mi amor por los deporte y me gusté estar una parte de un equipo. Desde entonces, he trabajado bien con los demás. Y en la esquela secundaria establecido un grupo de amigos que extendió para los años siguientes y continuos a este día. Durante de estos años me enseñe que es bien a estar un poco de petardo y a veces es bien a estar un poco estúpido con mis amigos, pero con limitaciones. La vida no tiene que ser serio todo el tiempo.<br /> Pero aprendí como un mediador del par que es lo mejor a resolver sus problemas con sus palabras. Pienso que la lucha contra la no demuestra que vale la pena o que te hace un hombre pero a ser un verdadero hombre debe ser lo que es correcto. Esto es mi personalidad.BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-37481698215575934182009-05-01T00:59:00.000-07:002009-05-01T01:05:19.514-07:00Randoms for the nightI was shaving today. I had just enough shaving cream to cover my face. I have had that shaving cream I think since i was a freshman. I am near graduation as a senior, and it just ran out. Talk about a strange realization. <br /><br />I love the little stupid things in life. Like seeing a moped go 15 mph down linden ave, with seven cars backed up behind it. They were going slow enough that i could see all the drivers' expression. A look of "WTF?!" on all their faces just made me laugh.<br /><br />I am pretty damn good with time. It seems like everytime i tell someone I will be there in so-and-so minutes, I am there in so-and-so minutes. And it happened again tonight. I got off the phone with Jamella at 10:24 after work and told her i would be home in 12 minutes. Kind of specific right? I walked into my room 12 minutes later at 10:36.<br /><br />Writing a spanish essay about personality really made me think hard about what has shaped my personality. I believe the product of my one-ish page spanish essay is up to par with anything i have written in english the entire time i have been at UW.BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-58885499545850385732009-04-13T20:37:00.000-07:002009-04-13T20:38:17.416-07:00fantasy baseballi'm addicted<br /><br />could i please get someone to light a fire under grady sizemore, my number one pick is just utterly letting me downBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-66325992330505615882009-04-10T23:05:00.000-07:002009-04-10T23:19:25.043-07:00RIPNick Adenhart was only three weeks older than I am now. Theres one main thing that differed between us though, he was a major league pitcher...<br /><br />was...<br /><br />he had just pitched the best game of his young career, six shut out innings...<br /><br />he had been with the angel's organization for four years and Angel's manager Mike Scioscia said he had grown more in those four years than anyone else<br /><br />and now its all gone...<br /><br />because someone with a suspended license stemming from drunk driving in 2006<br />who had his probation extended because of violations to that probation<br />had to run a red light<br />with his blood alcohol content three times the legal limit<br /><br />today he was charged with three counts of murder, driving under the influence, and leaving the crime scene... but it all comes too late, three people are dead<br /><br />my heart goes out to the angel's organization<br />to their pitching staff<br />and to torii hunter... who has to run out to center field every home game looking at Nick Adenhart's likeness emblazoned on the center field wall<br /><br />I wish i could go to the anaheim memorial and contribute, and pay respects, because even though I never knew him or have ever had anything to do with anyone in major league baseball, sports are near and dear to me, and when tragedy strikes it hurts my heart tooBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-37534078268049601312009-04-09T00:53:00.000-07:002009-04-09T00:56:47.159-07:00the quarter so faranimal learning lab is awesome. Its known as the rat lab to those of you not in the psychology loop. I named my rat rhino... anyone seen bolt?<br />Spanish 103... i still don't like speaking aloud in spanish, but I don't feel as bad when i hear other people speak heh<br />Psych 470- psych and music. This class is pretty sweet, although its gonna be a lot of work. Its basically a seminar class thats not considered a seminar, everyone has to do a research project and present it. <br />I made it through my entire college education without having to do a presentation in front of the class, and now i get an old fashioned professor HA, lame<br /><br />besides that, started to work out. Finally have time to make it to the ima during the day, yay for 2 hour break. Keep playin basketball, keep rolling my ankle, finally time to get an ankle brace.<br /><br />Next week, April 14, Wong Fu Productions comes to the HUB, yay for re-release tickets. Thats also me and jamella's 4 months :D<br /><br />that weekend, FASA conference WOOBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-46409114450242164682009-04-07T00:24:00.001-07:002009-04-07T00:27:48.501-07:00starting with a bangthe start to spring has been awesome. I've been craving the sun and warmth for so long now<br /><br />yesterday jamella and I went kayaking on greenlake. One hour for 14 dollars, kind of a steep price but well worth it, went all the way across. We ate at cheesecake factory and then went to gameworks too yaayy<br /><br />today was a great day too, lunch with matt and rachtha on the ave, showed my parents and my uncle around campus, got to see the cherry blossoms. Then at home we chilled out for a bit before all of us, plus matt rachtha and nala walked all the way around greenlake. That puppy is a chick magnet for reals. I'm not sure what i'm more surprised at, that my parents went all the way around the lake, or that nala made it almost all the way around, she stopped to lay down randomly... a lot<br /><br />the unc-michigan st game, yea i called that one as i'm sure most of you did<br /><br />the mariners game WOOOO GRIFFEY'S BACK BABY, hopefully he hits well this year and stays healthy, hey the mariners are tied for first right nowBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-17874781154251011132009-03-28T03:41:00.000-07:002009-03-28T03:55:52.934-07:00march 28thits not a good day to remember, and its not even the exact milestone of the start to a dark time in my life<br /><br />the exact date would be one month from today, april 28th, but I have kind of been thinking about it for the passed couple weeks<br /><br />in many ways i still struggle with what went down, thats not to say that i haven't moved on, but it still hurts to this day, especially dwelling on the events that went on immediately after that day last year and throughout the summer<br /><br />it's been 11 months but there are still SO many reminders, i just can't get away from them<br /><br />one of your reminders just passed a few days ago, your birthday... i resisted any and all tempation to make any sort of communication, and for me that was a really hard, but i got passed it and it really felt like a step in the right direction<br /><br />i wasn't happy with the way it happened 11 months ago, and the way things happened after<br />and honestly, i'm still not<br />but i am happy with where it has lead me... where i am todayBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-9841911249001159362009-03-26T04:25:00.001-07:002009-03-26T04:26:06.187-07:00beamerno not a car, man i wish i had a bmw, ok not really<br /><br />but we have a new puppy, it was supposed to be a girl, and we were calling it nala for about 3 hours...<br /><br />then matt decided to pet its belly, and realized, unquestionably, that its a boy<br /><br />pics to come hopefullyBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-72643910922603376712009-03-25T00:30:00.001-07:002009-03-25T00:30:58.425-07:00sometimeseven if i do absolutely nothing while i'm here<br /><br />its good to be homeBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-27582756689643450242009-03-22T18:50:00.001-07:002009-03-22T18:51:53.369-07:00spending moneyits just so easy<br /><br />me and matt went to tulalip today<br /><br />i got some huarache 08 basketball shoes<br />also went to walmart up there and i got a new basketball, an 8 gb jump drive, and pokemon platinum... i'm a nerd so what<br />went to dairy queen too woooooo<br /><br />on the way home we went on 99 all the way from everett to greenlake, a lot more interesting than driving i5BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-82777455860745479662009-03-22T03:56:00.000-07:002009-03-22T04:03:48.600-07:00and we were this close to going to vegas... TONIGHTtonight was well, just short of epic... for no apparent reason<br /><br />i got off work and it was just like any other night, catch a ride home, chill out, talk to jamella, watch some tv, read up on the day in sports<br /><br />but then matt asked if i wanted to go to pochis, of course a yes<br />met up with rachtha who was getting off work, chilled out a bit<br />searched for a lighted basketball court at 1 am, finally ended up at greenlake which we knew wasn't lit in the first place so we didn't check there first, we played by the light from the security lights<br />some random dude and girl walked by and we played 21 with the guy and talked with the girl, they smelled strongly of alcohol of course, hella cool people. matt won the game, but not before i went from zero to 19 before he went from 19 to 21<br />then we were gonna get jack in the box, but jack on aurora had like a 12 car line, so we were gonna get dicks, but it closed at 2... not 3... then we were gonna get wendy's in ballard, which closed at 2 and not 3... so we drove and found a jack, got three combos and drove.<br />passed the Lenin statue in fremont, i had never seen it before, i mentioned i had never been to the troll but matt said not now haha<br />at home we ate and watched family matters and talked about, well everything important in life, from what happened at work, to what happened last night, to what happened in junior high, and elementary school... i think we touched on every subject humanly possible<br /><br />and then matt brought up that its really cheap to go to vegas right now, a suite for 500, rachtha said he could make that on the blackjack table in 2 minutes...<br /><br />i looked up and said "lets go,"<br />matt looked at me and said "no i'm serious"<br />and i said "SO AM I!"<br />we looked at rachtha and he looked down and said "i have work tomorrow, its not that i have the job, its that people need me to be places"<br /><br />and with that, we were THIS close to ACTUALLY going to Vegas... i was ready to pack some clothes and be gone until wednesday...BB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-498612321275024473.post-89013859509801671102009-03-19T02:22:00.001-07:002009-03-19T02:33:56.120-07:00the end of finals weekwell for me and jaja at least<br /><br />my test was, well meh<br />goin to primate lab still every day, i'm really sad i won't have time for it next quarter, hopefully i can get a staff job there after graduation... scary, graduation<br /><br />Me and Jamella went to EMP, that was awesome, I love the grunge exhibits, and seeing Jimi Hendrix' guitar that he played at Woodstock, oh and taking pics that we're not supposed to take<br /><br />Last night was our St Patty's Day party, man that was fun. Just a small party like usual, beer pong, this time we played Kings Cup, and a nice friendly visit to the toilet bowl... i now have an aversion to pizza, but damn that pizza was good<br /><br />Today my parents and uncle came over, i'm so happy my uncle finally immigrated from the PI. He got to talk to everyone back in the PI via webcam while he was here and you could tell he was happy. I got to give him his presents too, the UW championship shirt and a hat, i ended up giving him one of my old hats cause the new one was too big for him. My parents bought me a knew mattress too, so now i have a bigger bed, they took my old mattress home for Uncle Ric.<br /><br />Also tonight we had our double header... with five people... after a party! The first game was just bad, i only scored six points but Craig had like 26. We lost, pretty bad. Second game was crazy. We put up more than 150 points combined and I had 30 of our 77. Too bad we lost by 9. Man playing a double header with only five people SUCKS. If we had our other two guys, we would probably win those games.<br /><br />And now tomorrow, seein Under the Sea 3D at imax, lab, home, work... sheesh its just nonstop even though i'm done with finalsBB4http://www.blogger.com/profile/09684610648831675630noreply@blogger.com0