RJK 5000

happy hulloween.

I’m at home and no trick-or-treaters have come.  It’s good because I hate them and I don’t have any candy for them anyway.

I just ate too much food.  I’ll be skipping kung fu class tonight and probably the gym too.  I’m going to go for a run before Jonny comes over though.  I need it.  Felt like I was having some kind of social anxiety attack at the company costume party today.  Always happens this time of year.

I hope Jonny will want to go to the bar later tonight.  Do I need a costume.

After work I came home and chilled and just stayed home. I ate a feta and pepper jack cheese sandwich and drank a protein shake. And ate some fresh dates. And drank some coffee. Not in that order. But coffee was last.

The evening went by fast though. I talked to Cara-beth on the telephone about X Games. That was cool. I like her. I’m going to make her do tequila shots with me one of these days.

I worked out on the Total Gym and jumped rope. My legs feel weak. I wanted to ride my bike to the library today but I forgot. Or it was too dark and cold and the Malcolm in the Middle Halloween episode was too scary or something.

Do you remember that day I met Maxine Hong Kingston. I googled “Maxine Hong Kingston public appearances” and discovered that she would be speaking in my city that very night. That ruled. I regret not making her hug me. We shook hands but now I think I need to make her do a tequila shot with me.

I feel good right now. I’m going to rest.

Last night my mom texted me and asked me whether I would go to church with her today.  Sometimes she does that, tries to get me to go.  Church and religion is kind of a weird thing in general, but honestly I like the idea of taking time out of my unimportant life to reflect on certain beliefs and to hope (pray) for the best.  I went and it was fine.  The Gospel or whatever is kind of good literature too.  But when they say “Aaron” I think of Aaron from Santa Barbara and then daydream about skateboarding on Sabado.  and when they say “Ephraim” I think of Ephram and think about my favorite Everwood episodes.

The rest of my weekend was pretty chill.  Jonny and I went to Hamburger Hamlet for sliders and drinks.  I drank a grey goose martini and couldn’t get myself to eat the olive for some reason.  It was weird.  Usually I eat two olives per martini.

Charlotte is jumping on my head again.  Why does she do that.  Now she’s all Queen of England.

Daylight savings time is over.  After all this halloween fustlethrum it will be Thanksgiving, which I love.  Then Christmas which I sort of love.  Then New Years which is really nothing, and then so on. 

I’m at work doing nothing again except for drinking gallons of water.  It’s nice I suppose. 

I feel better today.  I kind of want to go running after work, but not sure if I’ll be able to resist the temptation of going home and lounging.  I’m also afraid my knee is going to pop out again.  It kept popping out during vacation.  Didn’t hurt too bad, but felt a little sore.  Maybe I just need to replace the attachment for the hollow leg, or just stop using the hollow leg altogether.  Haven’t felt any positive effects of the glucosamine chondroitin yet because I haven’t been taking them consistently. 

For lunch I ate a mixed berry-flavored nonfat yogurt with some granola on top.  It was okay.  I won’t be hungry again until dinner.  I don’t know what’s for dinner.  I want something that used to be alive.

Oh, it’s friday.  my days are all turned around.  Jemie is having people over tonight.  I barely know her but I feel like I’ve known her for a long time.  What’s the word for people like that. 

Well, the IT guy just called and expressed his concerns about myspace and my excessive bandwidth usage.  haha.  I better go before I get in trouble. 

Still recovering from vacation.  Monkey cancer and stuff.  I think I have a problem.  I opened my eyes this morning completely relaxed thinking I was still in Maui.  I turned my head to the right and saw white plantation shutters instead of the ocean.  Then reality set in and I remembered I had to go back to work today.  I was so sleepy too because I stayed up pretty late.  I forced myself up and made coffee which is usually the best part of waking up but the coffee wasn’t even kona and stuff just felt wrong.  I used the tourist mug that I bought at Starbucks in Lahaina and that helped a little bit. haha.  I went to work and did nothing all day, which was good, but also made me wonder why we bother.  I felt a little depressed today.  Depression is the main symptom of monkey cancer.  But monkey cancer is all in my head anyway.

Well, actually, tonight I’ll be going back to kung fu class and running on the treadmill at the gym.  My fat American tourist butt has been looking forward to hitting up the gym all day.  Burn off some of that Roy’s pork chop and maine lobster sandwich.  I also drove the WRX obnoxiously which was kind of fun and totally not island style.  What else could I do.  I guess I could buy booze after 11 while wearing a jacket.  That’s pretty sweet.

I sent out a myspace bulletin today asking my friends to send me their phone numbers because when my phone got destroyed I realized only some of the numbers were saved to SIM.  It was good receiving messages from friends I never talk to on the phone and rarely even communicate with via myspace.  But now all these folks have taken the time to send me their numbers saying that they miss me and hope to hear from me.  I hate talking on the phone because I never really know what to say and I’m not good at talking.  But sometimes I want to just call some old friends and confess that I wanted to hear their voice and say hi but that’s all.  Seems gay but not as gay as a glittery myspace comment.  Missing your friends is sorta gay in general but now I know it’s different when you find out that you’re the one who’s being missed.  I miss you all too.

I’m back.  I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Maui with my mom, brother (jimmy), brother’s girlfriend (edna), and our good family friend (pidaman).  haha.  It was a great trip, but I’m too tired to write about it right now.  I have the best mom and big brother.

Visit Pidaman’s site if you want to read a little bit about the trip. 

Visit my photo gallery if you want to see a little bit about the trip.

I will be away enjoying time and celebrating my brother’s birthday with my family.  see you soon.

I started taking glucosamine chondroitin for my knees today.  I’m not sure but I think the pills give me gas.  I guess I’m supposed to start feeling a difference in my knees within a few weeks.  Feel a difference in my belly immediately.  haha.  We’ll see I guess.

My fish is doing okay.  For a while he was being cool and hanging out but suddenly he started hiding behind the rocks whenever I approached the tank.  I don’t like that.  That’s what cats do, not respectable little fishums.

Man, I’m pretty tired.  My kung fu was bad again tonight.  And my workout at the gym was also pretty weak.  I have not lost any more weight either. 

I guess I should crawl into bed and watch Frasier.  I always giggle because Frasier looks like huphtur.

Jonny gave me a fish today.  It was about to be eaten by a couple of other fish, so he rescued it by setting up a tank at my place.  A tiny ten-gallon tank.  I never really wanted a fish tank before but I guess they are cool.  I don’t really like this fish too much though.  His face reminds me of Zack the lego maniac and he acts boring.  Maybe he’ll loosen up once he’s used to his new digs.

Today Charlotte ran around and rolled around the front lawn of the building.  The lawn had fertilizer sprinkled all over it.  She’s nasty.  She had a bath and smells like green apples now. 

I ate way too much food today.  And exercised way too little.  Great.

My eyelid turned pink and was a little bit swollen all weekend.  It’s getting better now though I think.  I read that weightlifters who hold their breath a lot commonly get glaucoma.  I need to remember to breathe when I’m benching more than 400 I guess.

This weekend was great.  On Friday after work I inhaled some medicinal herbs for my glaucoma, but it didn’t work (I repeat, say no to drugs!).  And then I was beginning to pass out when Jonny came over and said we were having dinner at Buca di beppo with his family, including his grandmother who I love.  So we did that and that was great as always.  Afterwards we chilled.

I spent Saturday in San Diego.  I drove down to meet the legendary Cara-beth Burnside for lunch.  Ain’t that neat.  In case you aren’t familiar with her, she took the Gold medal at X-games for women’s vert and she is awesome.  I went to her house to interview her for a feature I’m going to write about her for girlslearntoride.com.  Mimi Knoop was there too.  Mimi reminds me of someone who you would want as your o-chem lab partner.  She just seems real smart and probably will titrate everything accurately.  She’s real pretty too.  They were watching the mountain dew tour vert finals on television.  I asked them some questions and chilled out and since CB nor I were very hungry, we didn’t grab lunch.  She did however invite me over to the ymca skatepark in encinitas.  She and Mimi shredded the pools.  I skated some weenie street course like a poser.  Made a new friend named Maria.  She’s cute.  It was really cool.  CB is a really good person.

I left the skatepark or skate park and headed a little farther south towards my brother’s house.  when I got there i found that Shy thai and paul were there too.  I hadn’t seen them in a really long time so it was nice to see them.  Paul got skinnier.  My brother bought me a matcha green tea blast from jamba juice.  it was so good, it made me stop hating jamba.  I drank a Corona and hung out for a bit.  I wanted to stay longer and watch ufc with them but I had to return home to charlotte.  She stayed home by herself for nine hours.  When I got home she jumped on my head like a crazy person. 

Today Jonny and I chilled.  Had brunch at Dona Rosa, which was good.  Stopped by Drew’s house where I harassed some of his pets.  It was fun.  I like when I go to my friends’ houses and they have pets that I can harass.

I didn’t really drink too much beer this weekend.  Drank some wine and ate lots of carbs and junk food, but I feel okay about it.

Pidaman texted me this morning after the earthquake in Hawaii occurred.  No bueno.  I want airfare to get cheaper, but it only goes higher.