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i am at my mom’s house.  my brother made linguine with clams in a red sauce that was really excellent.  we drank italian wine and some beers that marco gave us.  it was a fun night.  my mom likes english ales.  afterwards, she and i baked pumpkin pies and got a few other things ready for tomorrow.  i liked looking through the pantry shelves and pulling out the gravy boats, platters, and chafing dishes.  now i have to go get the turkey ready for its big day tomorrow.  this is my favorite holiday.

charlotte went to the pub today.  it was cool.

hope you all are happy and well.

i’ve started my holiday staycation.  after work i held my annual screening of ethan frome (on vhs).  i was so tired i fell asleep during it, which is actually part of the tradition.  all was swell.  went to the pub and talked with lis and chilled out for a while.

came back home late.  my patio was flooded.  it’s fun sweeping water with a broom.  at 4am.

i feel weird right now.  i don’t want to sleep.  i want to stay up and talk until the sun comes up.  no one to talk to at this hour…

it’s pretty late and i’m pretty tired.  marco, swimmy, and i went to the pirate bar to see the hillbilly punk rock show.  it was good.  i never laughed so much between songs.  joe buck and captain sean have great senses of humor.  and i think warm hearts too even though they play pretty great devil’s music.  what a hoot.  a real hoe-down.  it was nice to be out.  also, who the f*ck is stab city…

i want to do the crossword and email and read, but it’s so late that i think i might just go straight to lights out.  tomorrow is a busy day at work, but i’m totally okay with it.

the vhs movie that i watched today was rosemary’s baby.  i had never seen it before and liked it.  amazing how rosemary wasn’t annoying at all.  moms who are told they are crazy because they are worried about their babies being sacrificed by satanists are usually very annoying.

oh, not to sound presumptuous or anything, but just because i like vhs movies, doesn’t mean i want any (eg, turner and hooch) for christmas.  thanks, though.

i am hungry now.  i sure wish i had another half of my mad dog.

i have the most amazing zit under my nose.  it is painful to the touch.

i guess i will hop into bed and get ready for another fantastic monday.  this is going to be a short week because of the holiday.  should be good.

happy extendo weekend.  i took friday off so marco and i went to santa barbara on thursday night.  we stayed right by the beach and walked around downtown.  we went to some of my favorite places, including the hot dog place.  i got full so i saved half of my veggie dog in foil and put it in my purse for later on when i got buzzed and hungry again.  i’m so smart and not weird because it sure was a lifesaver when i felt like i needed a snack after a couple beers at elsie’s.

we walked and stalked the seals.  their barks echoed off the waves.  the ocean is romantic, it can make you want to see the world.  or just jump in and die.

i was hungover on friday.  breakfast at esau’s cafe was delicious though.  santa barbara is cute.  next time brophy bros., where smelly used to work.  we came back to town, took a nap, and ate the best ramen.  pretty good life, huh.

friday night, i went to my mom’s house and watched E.T. on vhs.  i spent the night there.

now saturday.  i read about pinstriping, which will become my new trade.  then exercised.  and watched king of new york.  i will rest up proper now.  i’m already in the bed.

wednesday nights are still family nights.  it’s cute.  my brother, who is a college student, said some people in his class invited him to join their wednesday-night study group but he declined because wednesday nights are family dinner nights.  one of them asked him, “oh, where’s your family flying in from?”  haha.  i like the fact that our family nights are important to him.  well, maybe they are just more fun.  i always bring wine, beer, and dessert.  tonight we all drank bass ale and ate cannoli from the italian bakery.  i never had cannoli before this.  it was good, but not my style.

bass ale is really good again.  for a while i stopped liking it but now it’s back as one of my (and my mom’s) favorites.   also pairs excellently with fish.  always reminds me of snowboarding with miki too.  that was a great day.

i did some kettlebell exercises when i got home.  i viewed some how-to videos on youtube because i was unsure about how to perform the “windmill” and i guess i’ve been executing it with incorrect form this whole time.  awesome.

it got late fast.  i will read and sleep now.  it’s really 2:04.

oh, the thing about henry james and other works of high-achieving art is that they feel radioactive.  their effects last a long time.  sometimes harmful to perceptions of one’s own experiences.  another example, i heard “pictures of you” on the radio yesterday morning.  what a song.  surely it can damage.

i was tired again today.  what gives.  i took a nap and had nightmares about moving into a haunted house.  sounds stupid but it was actually kind of scary.  i woke up and made it to kung fu class.  sifu always makes me practice a lot on the days i am most tired.  i told him i was tired and he thought i said i got fired.  my t did look like an f.

i gave charlotte a bath.  i like when i see a speck of a flea corpse in the bathwater, but tonight i did not get that satisfaction.

my stomach is still weird.

i guess i will brush my teeth and walk charlotte and read some henry james.

the holidays are sneaking up on me.  thanksgiving is soon, which rules.

guess what.  i’m already in bed.  i am so tired today.  i’m relaxing and watching worst week.  it’s not that funny but it’s fun to watch.

nothing new with me.  just tired.  not sure why, but it might have something to do with yesterday’s guinness and french fries.

After work marco and i went to celebrate the happy hour at the english pub on industrial.  i had never been there before, but i liked it.  nice area. the nabisco lofts across the way seemed cute.  i indulged and ate pizza (no cheese) and calamari and drank guinness and newcastle.  my stomach was pretty normal afterwards.  !.

now i just chill.  i am going to watch a movie with charlotte.  i hope she won’t paws and rewind.  hahaha!

tonight i chilled and watched kitchen nightmares.  i really like that gordon ramsay.  the fiesta sunrise episode reminded me that i wanted to eat chips and salsa so marco and i went to our favorite vons and bought stuff to make guacamole (better than salsa).  it was fun and good.  i accidentally touched my eyeball after chopping the jalapeno.  the burning sensation felt cool and soothing, so i deliberately touched the other eyeball to even it out.  now i can’t see anything but red.

also watched news about the montecito fire.  mother nature does not discriminate socioeconomic status.  but i do.  rich people in montecito seem different than rich people in malibu.

we all have our dysfunctions, but what’s really wrong with us?