Wednesday, December 17, 2008

december 17th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 16th, 2008.

since i had a follow up dentist appointment yesterday, i drove into work. and when i drive into work, that means i drive to my parents afterwards. so i did just that and enjoyed some homemade chicken fettucine. oh man it was tasty. i helped with dishes and hung out a bit and then challenged my dad to a game of backgammon. he won the first game and i challenged him to a rematch, win which i was victorious. then we braced ourselves for a rubber match in which i pretty much destroyed him. my throat hurt a bit because i was yelling in a celebratory fashion during and after the third and final game. then guess what i did?! i drove home.

got home and watched real chance of love. the contestants met their parents and it was definitely entertaining. sarah and blonde sarah were decorating their tree and i was lonely, so i went over there. while there we watched the finale of the biggest loser and then were blasted with entertainment in the form of a new show: momma's boy! oh man it is going to be intense. definitely going to add it to the dvr list. we also watched a lot of news to get info on the pending arctic blast that was inevitable (spoiler alert: weatherman was wrong. seattle got no snow).

then i read some of my rolling stone magazine, helped sarah put on fresh sheets and then a big change happened. i used a different pillow on sarah's bed than what ive been using the past two years. each side of the bed has a red pillow case and a cream pillow case. ive always used the red one, and it was super soft and my drool dried to a nice white splotch everytime i used it. last night i decided to switch it up to the cream pillow because it is a harder pillow (which i have always preferred). not only did i sleep much better, there is no drool evidence of my slumber! jealous?

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

december 16th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 15th, 2008.

oh boy was it chilly yesterday! after a super brisk walk home i hopped in my work out clothes and drove to the gym. i had to go by myself cuz sarah had something she had to do for school. and boy was it good to get back in the gym after a weekend in canada and less than stellar consuming habits. after an hour of sweating to some unwritten law in my ear i headed home. sarah called as i was pulling out of the parking lot and we chatted. it was during this call that we decided i would go to her house later in the evening. but first...

it was dinner time! turns out that early lunch + working out = hunger! i put a couple of flautas in a backing dish, sprinkled some mexican blend cheese and plopped those bad boys in the oven. i made a post workout drink while those baked and i turned on the survivor reunion show where i heard some amazing news: they are now accepting applications for season 19!!! needless to say, i am very excited. more on this later.

i enjoyed the flautas with some salsa on them and then gave zac a call. i told him about the survivor application and that i wanted his help in thinking of ideas and helping me film it. zac has a good level of creativity and i think he can really help get my on film appropriately. after our call i hopped in the honda and went over to sarahs. we watched a 2 hour special on 20/20 and all of the sudden it was 11:00 and i was pretty tired. at 10:42 i realized it was almost 11, and my internal clock thought it was almost 10. somewhere during the evening i lost an hour. oh my!

so i went and brushed my teeth after flossing and crawled into bed. i played some sort of soccer game on my phone while sarah got ready for bed and then she got in and started reading a new book she borrowed from her mom. i must have been super sleepy cuz i the drool production wasted no time in getting started.

Friday, December 12, 2008

december 12th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 11th, 2008.

i took the bus from work to hunts point to meet up with omer. we drove to the wedgewood area on 65th to a place called "pied piper alehouse" for dinner and some beer. pretty cool place; id definitely recommend it. after we chit chatted, drank and ate, we headed back to aladdin.

we played some tic a tac while omer drank a beer (i was too full and drank only the neck of mine). it was getting late (9:45) so omer left and i walked out with him to get in my car and drive to sarahs. i forgot something at our place, so i had to turn around and pick it up. i know, crazy huh?!

i get to sarahs and she meets me outside so we can take charlie for a walk. then we go inside and she continues to work on her paper while i watch an episode of fringe! her eyes hurt too much so she calls it a night and i finish the rest of fringe in bed. then its an all night caper in dreamsville.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

december 11th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 10th, 2008.

i got home from work and had some left over phad thai and watched some real housewives of the oc. then i got ready for the gym and headed over to sarah's. i picked her up and we headed to 24 hour fitness. she was in a fun mood so the car ride over was entertaining. we talked about how naomi found out she is having a girl (brooke elizabeth) and how they were finally gonna tell the grandma.

sarah did a class while i did the eliptical and weights. an hour later we headed home. i dropped her off and turned up rise against and got back to aladdin. i heated up the oven in preparation of enjoying a couple of flautas. whilst it was preheating i called my aunt nancy to thank her for the birthday card and gift cards (rAd robin, cpk). we had a good talk and then i turned out the rest of real housewives while the flautas cooked. they finished and then i finished them. after they and real housewives were done, i watched secret millionaire - and without tears! i got welled up a little bit, but no streaming like last time.

i then headed to my room in hopes of playing some tic a tac with omer, but after an invite and unanswered skype call, i found out via text that he was tired and about to go to sleep. so i went to fox.com and watched an episode of fringe - i am hooked. right as it ended (i mean, show last frame and cut to black) sarah called. it was actually freaky timing. i told her i would call her right back after i brushed my teeth and crawled into bed. i stayed true to my promise and then proceeded to take a self-guided tour of dreamland.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

december 10, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 9, 2008.

sarah picked me up from work and we drove to my parents house to celebrate my birthday. my grandpa showed up and it was good times, even though it got off to a rough start. the upstairs toilet was flooding and we didnt know it. by the time we heard it, it had been going for a while and all the water in the bathroom had been draining into the heating vent. that meant that all the water was in the vents and had been draining into the ceiling above the laundry room, which meant the laundry room was soaked. my dad was pretty frustrated and has since sworn to replace the toilet, as this has happened before and he is fed up with dealing with mini floods.

after the natural disaster was cleaned up, we enjoyed a delicious dinner. after dinner i opened presents and i got some cool stuff for the apartment. and by cool, i mean well-needed. a glass cooking pan, a basting brush, two big knives and a swifter duster! i asked for all of those and am very excited to become a culinary master as a result of getting them.

sarah and i then drove home after letting charlie run around my front yard so the family could see him. he was a hit! the girls and kma love him. so we drove home just in time to watch house. i put the swifter duster to quick work and dusted everywhere during the first couple minutes of the show and it felt good. i heart dusting. after house we were gonna watch real housewives of the oc, but we got roped into watching fringe. neither of us had ever seen an episode, but we got pulled in. after fringe we watched the dvr'd real housewives. those bitches are crazy. i then went to bed and sarah watched another episode of real housewives (dont worry, its dvrd so i can watch it tonight).

i warmed up the bed while sleeping and then gladly woke up to welcome her to the queen sized dream machine.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

december 9th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 8th, 2008.

yesterday was my birthday!!! and lemme tell you, what a birthday it was! after several buses from the dentist office, i finally found myself in the udistrict next to jack in the box. i then started a wonderful walk back to our place. i had coheed & cambria singing me along and i weaved through backstreets until i found 65th.

i got home and had to get on my laptop and do some work since i left early for the dentist. i flipped on monday night football and started on emails. i then had some hunger pains that were stickin like ducktape, so i called in an order for thai food. at this point you and i were online chatting so you know this already. i took out the garbage and recycling on my way to thai ocean and then returned to mnf and enjoyed my 1 star phad thai. i continued working and watching mnf until i came to the conclusion that i did not want to sit at home all night so i got on my work out clothes and headed to the gym.

i worked out for about 45 minutes. got a good workout in and then headed home. i had a post-workout drink (thats what it is called, not alcholic) and checked work stuff some more and then turned on real chance of love! finally, my birthday is getting exciting! it was a good episode. real and chance punk'd their gals and it involved police and everything - it was awesome. during the show i got a call from omer, colin and my family - all wishing me a happy day. omer actually offered to take me out and buy me a birthday beer, but i was not up for it (you know, just worked out and i was full and i was tired - so we decided to postpone to later this week). after the show was over i was exhausted from the days events and decided to close my 24th birthday out with a teeth brushing and eye closing.

Friday, December 5, 2008

december 5th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 4th, 2008.

zac picked me up from work in his parents jeep (they are in arizona so he is making sure it still works while they are away). we stopped by the rose hill safeway for a couple of goodies. we then went to his condo where we cracked open a beer and proceeded with a haircut. it was a trickier than most haircut because spocandice requested the top stay long and that makes blending harder for me. but to no surprise, i made it look awesome. he probably got laid later that night for which i take partial credit.

omer came over to zacs and sac made us a delicious spaghetti dinner. i commented on the fact that it tasted delicious, and he said the secret ingredient is a bit of olive oil before adding the sauce. i am gonna have to give that a whirl cuz it was tasty. we enjoyed a miller high life during the dinner as well.

we watched a little bit of office space and then omer drove me home. there was a bit of traffic, but we didnt mind because that gave us time to talk about our new book idea. he dropped me off and then i went over to sarahs to watch greys anatomy. she made some fat free fudge brownies that were amazing. we enjoyed them a la mode. she bought the mix at trader joes and you just add nonfat vanilla yogurt, thats it. man oh man were they tasty. i am gonna have to pick me up a box. then we watched greys and as always, it was a good episode.

i was very tired by the time 10 oclock showed up on the clock, so i headed to bed. i watched the last 15 minutes of a friends episode in bed and then surrendered to my heavy eyes. sarah joined shortly thereafter and the three of us (charlie) took a first class ride into dreamland.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

december 4th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 3rd, 2008.

got home and once again enjoyed an english muffin with the heavenly homemade jelly. also had a big glass of water in preparation for (spoiler alert) the gym. while consuming, i watched unwrapped: las vegas. i love that show and i enjoyed my recent trip to vegas so it worked out well. i then got my gear on and then headed to sarah's.

sarah and i take turns driving, and last night was my night. so i pulled up, gave her a call, and she came down and hopped in. after i stole a kiss or two, we headed off. i eventually stole another while at a red light - it was awesome. she did a class at the gym while i flew solo. 50 minutes later we headed home.

i dropped her off and then went home. i stopped by subway after i parked and enjoyed a lengthy conversation with the indian guy about his homeland and the rice they eat and the subsequent joint pain and weight gain. he gave me two free cookies and i tipped him a dollar for the politeness and free cookie slanging practices.

i had my dinner while watching unwrapped: mail in goodies and dog the bounty hunter. then i turned on the trusted dvr and commenced crying my eyes out. the show that is to blame for my emotional outburst is secret millionaire. i know youre probably rolling your eyes right now, but it hit jtowns heart strings to the maximum. here is a rundown on the premise: multimillionaires go to super poverty stricken areas disguised as poverty stricken people. they tell the people they are around that theyre doing a documentary of poverty. they live amongst the poor for 5 days (doing work, meeting people, volunteering) - basically meeting people. then at the end of their stay, they have to give at least $100,000 away of their own money to the people they met during the week while coming clean about their true identity. last night was the 2 hour series premiere and man oh man was it awesome. the first father/son gave away $150,000 and then the second episode had a husband/wife who wrote three $100,000 checks to give to people - so awesome. i have created a seasons pass on the dvr and look forward to many more lonely nights of crying.

then it was bed time, so i went to bed.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

December 3rd, 2008

This post is to tell you what i did yesterday, december 2nd, 2008.

yesterday was taco tuesday!!! after work i took the bus to hunts point where colin and omer were waiting for me. we chit chatted and then hopped in the accord and headed to the almighty aladdin where we would hold the evenings events.

we started right in with making the tacos because we were all pretty hungry. omer tackled the meat, colin manned the beans, and i took care of the lettuce and taco shells. our synergy allowed us to get things taken care of in a quick and successful manner. we then sat down to a lovely dinner where we each had 4 tacos, and teteak finished up the leftovers with a flour tortilla.

omer so graciously did the dishes while i put everything away. we then decided to play a $1 poker tournament and surprise surprise, i won! games were not done yet as we then jumped right into a rousing game of dominoes! (thanks for answering our call while on the plane because your answer helped us get on our way). we stoppoed after 3 rounds cuz colin had to watch house and omer was getting tired.

we then watched house. during house, omer and i puff-puff-passed his iphone cuz he recently bought a new app for it that was addicting as balls. i beat his long-standing high score only to have him beat it on his next turn. you should ask him what the app is so you can buy it so i can play it when youre in town. also during house, i ate an ice-cream sandwich with previously discussed strawberry jelly from my aunt. it was delicious to the maximum. teteak had a bite and he can confirm my statement.

they went home and then i watched real chance of love on dvr. we got to see a softer side of chance and it was nice. i then hopped into bed where i slept and dreamt.

xoxoxo

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

December 2nd, 2008

this post is to tell you about what i did yesterday, december 1st, 2008.

i got home around 5:00 and made myself an english muffin. my aunt gave me some homemade strawberry jelly that is absolutely amazing and i used that. it is so good that i think i am going to buy some vanilla ice cream and use the jelly as a fruit topping. while enjoying my english muffin i watched vh1 storytellers featuring kid rock.

around 5:40 i put on my gym clothes while listening to atmosphere. then i drove over to sarah's place and she drove us to the gym. we worked out for about 45 minutes to an hour where i worked up a good sweat and ensured that i would be sore the next day. (and since i am currently in that next day, i can confirm that i am indeed sore). she drove us back home and she went inside to watch her allstar lineup of monday night shows and i went home to an empty apartment.

i made myself some chicken, mozarella, garlic ravioli and watched some monday night football while doing so. then i sat down to enjoy said meal while watching rock of love charm school. i was trying to buy more time before real chance of love started (actually, it started at 9, and i was trying to wait until 9:30 so i could watch it on dvr and avoid all commercials) but i fell asleep on the couch. i woke up at 10:10, did dishes, and then went to sleep cuz i was tired.

hugs and kisses.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

November 25th, 2008

this post is to tell you what i did yesterday, november 24th, 2008.

after a cold walk to the bus stop to catch the 4:23, i got on the bus which came at 4twamp. i sat down on one of the first seats before moving one seat closer because my original selection wasnt that comfortable. i then listened to bionic jive and then the black crowes while the bus made killer time. i was off the bus at 4:45 and making another cold walk to the apartment.

i had parked at the bus stop by subway sunday night, but the car in front of me must not have been an architect or engineer because their space planning sucked, which resulted in a portion of my bumper in the paint where the bus pulls up. anyway, as i walked up to the almighty aladdin, i noticed the previous night's culprit had since evacuated their spot, so i jumped in my ride and pulled up, safely removing myself from the painted curb. i then gathered the mail and walked into our apartment.

after rushing to go pee, i put my slippers on and went into the living room and turned on our two ikea lamps. i then turned on my ps2 to play some madden. thats right, i bought a ps2. greg ryan gave me a stellar deal on his old one: 2 controllers, 2 memory cards, roughly 10 games for the low, low price of $63 dollars. i was a nice guy and gave him $68 and told him to keep the change.

i played some ps2 then sarah called. she was walking to her car after school and wanted protection from the creepos in the udistrict and what better way to ensure safety than a phone call to your boyfriend, right? so we talked while she walked while i played, not with myself, with the ps2, remember? as a direct result of the protection i provided, she made is safely to her car and we vowed to talk later (keep reading to see if promise was kept). i then turned off ps2 and turned on monday night football while i headed to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

i made myself some chicken, garlic, mozzarella ravioli which was delicious. after boiling them, i put some olive oil and pepper into the pot and sizzled the noodles a bit - mmmm. topped it with some parmesan cheese, poured a glass of milk, grabbed the bag of pistachios and headed for the couch. the football game had just started and i was a bit bored with it, so i flipped on the dvr. i then watched the pick up artist 2. they were down to the final 3 and it was a good episode. they are down to 2 now, with the finale next week - get excited.

after that i played some more ps2. after that i watched the amazing race, which i had also dvrd. oh man it was a good one. that show always has me on the edge of my seat. it was a non-elimation leg of the race, so they still have 4 teams left. if omer and i had been selected, we fsho woulda been one of the final 4.

i was getting cold and had a couple of things i wanted to make sure to get done, so i went pee and then flushed. then i put some comet in the toilet and let it soak in while i went to my room. i changed into some sweats in an attempt to get warm. i cleaned my room, paid a bill, imported new cds to itunes and put my vegas pictures and k&m viola pictures on the computer. by now the comet had been working overtime and it was my turn to step in for some good ol' manual labor.

i cleaned the heck out of the toilet, sink and bathtub. it was well needed and now its sparkling clean. i know youre probably thinking "holy moly, he has done so much with his evening that it must be bed time by now". though i dont blame you for that thought, that is actually not the case. it was about 9 and i knew exactly how the evening was going to finish.

i went out and watched a little bit more football before i turned on the reliable dvr once more for some real chance of love! once again, a great episode. during which sarah called me again. after the success of our conversational protection earlier in the day, she once again called on that reliability and sense of security as she walked, with charlie, home from her sisters house after watching a new OTH (one tree hill for all you laymen out there). to no surprise, we obtained success again with her reaching her condo in one piece despite charlies attempt to attack innocent standbys on the route home.

i finished real chance of love and started doing dishes. while doing them james called to talk about some stuff he was going through and i paced around the apartment to stay warm while he and i talked after i did the dishes. i have a HUGE canker sore in my mouth that ive had for about a week now so i painfully sloshed some listerine around last night before i brushed. bathroom antics complete, i hopped into bed (which i had put a blanket on earlier in the evening). i read some rolling stone until about 11:24 and then turned out the light for a night of good sleep and sweet dreams.