Amberlina

Saturday, April 30, 2005 03:24 p.m.

My last April entry. I've been rather neglectful for the past few days. I've been busy being a so-so host. Have you ever had a houseguest you didn't really want to have? I just dealt with that. My mom's friend flew up on Tuesday night and just left buy airport shuttle, minutes ago. Well, although my mom won't admit it I think she invited her along prior to actually asking me. One thing, my mom knows that I don't really like to have houseguests outside of immediate relatives and close friends, especially now with Kai I find it to tiring to be a host, watching my baby, and being myself. It's much to much overwhelming for me. I really don't like it. Okay so the friend came up for a visit. she didn't really want to do anything except go to Target, Trader Joes and do some drive by's at California sites like the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood sign. I'm not one for just driving around. When people come to visit I want an agenda, itenirary, to do list whatever you want to call it! I hate mindless driving and having to think of all the requiste things to do. My mom has been here enough times that she can help her friend figure out what to do. Okay let me back track a bit. You may be wondering Why would she want to go to Trader Joes? Yes, they want to go to the market to buy snacks to take home. Apparently it's cheaper then Hawaii and there are foods that they can't find in Hawaii. Whatever, I used to be really bad about going to Hawaii and bringing a shit load of foods back with me. Not anymore. Yes, there may be one or two items I must lug back wiht me or have my mom bring me it but for the most part I cut some of this stuff out. Don't have much of a taste for some but really I can find these food thingies right here in California. Okay, back to the story. Well after day one Mom's friend was walking T's last nerve, he was thrilled to be at work everyday she was here. He was nice but stayed out of the same vicinity as much as he could. Maybe I needed to take a clue from him. Really I tool vacation and pretty much wasted some vacation days. Today was the last day. I really didn't want to drive her to the airport. We were half way to the airport this morning but had to come back home and I was suppose to go and drop her off but i was tired. Luckily she said, if its an inconvenience i'll take a shuttle. I said I can drive but if you want to you can. Well an hour or so before she had to leave we had our requisite blow up. I made a comment that ticked her off and she blew everything out of proportion and said she was leaving, i said i'm not asking you to leave you just repeated yourself four times which is kind of annoying and you two are talking and I can't chill and watch tv and i don't understand why you don't sit in the den and chit chat. Ohhhh, Noooooo....god forbid.....she blows up and I just sat there thinking whatever drama queen do what you want. five to ten minutes later she comes barging back in chewing me out. Again, whatever. I tend to blow this type of shit off because it is unwarranted and overly dramatic. One thing about me, in certain situations I have no emotion and this kind of thing means nothing to me and rolls off my back. It took all my strength to hold back what I wanted to say. If I said it it totally would have been hurtful to her and hurtful to my mom and I didn't want to go in that direction. Since it was not really affecting me I said nothing. An hour later she comes back and tells me she's sorry blah, blah, blah and if I had anyting to say. First, I wasn't apologizing for nothing and second, I didn't have anything else so I said I appreciate her being honest, I accept your apology and i'm not hurt or anything blah, blah, blah. Uuugugghhhh.....no more houseguests. Mom and Dad, okay. Brother-in-law, okay. Close friends (depending how long), okay. that's it. Everyone else, plase get a hotel room.

It's been nice having these days off. I do however, feel cheated from time I could have spent with my mom. I hate that and that's another reason why I don't like guests like this. There's still Sunday and Monday which is absolutely fantastic!

Kai's other top tooth is growing in. He's been mental again. Sleeping badly, getting overly fussy. Luckily we are armed with the Hylands teething tablets and baby motrin which does make things a little simpler.

I'm feeling icky and I need some water. I think i've been eating much to much junk.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 06:57 a.m.

San Diego was a nice, relaxing time! We left LA around 8.30am on Saturday morning, stopped in Fullerton for some breakfast at Salt and Pepper and then continued our drive down. It was a really nice, pretty drive. We stopped off for a quick drive through Carlsbad where we saw those amazing flower gardens. By the time we reached La Jolla T was so burnt from the long drive. While he napped mom and I decided to hit the open air mall across the street from our hotel. You see, other then the zoo we had absolutely no agenda for this trip. Really, just something to do to get outta town. T and I are always so burnt out that we are always perfectly happy to stay in and order movies and room service all night. Oooppsss...maybe we shouldn't have said that. Well, when we checked in the hotel told my mom We dont' need your credit card, its all taken care of, what was that suppose to mean? We knew the room was free but it's all taken care of? We took a chance and ordered in the first night and ordered some movies. The awesome thing was that the hotel serves breakfast for free, everday. not just muffins and cereal, this went beyond continental fare. There was pancakes, french toast, eggs, sausage, bacon, all beverages, muffins, danishes fruit bar and it was all free. It was totally yummy that there was no reason to go out to eat at all. The zoo was great, sooooo big! For the life of us, we could not find the tigers at all. We looked at almost everything, at the very least, everything we wanted to see. The weather was nice, it wasn't to crowded and I left with my feet still in tact. Back at the hotel we took Kai down to the heated pool and he loved it. granted he could only stay in there for 5-10 minutes before getting to cold he had a blast. Alright, besides free breakfast in the evening they have a thing called the managers gathering or some thing like that. Some bar snacks and cocktails/beer/wine again, all free! Sweet! Again we ordered in and ordered movies. Yeah, we're lame but there was a chance that it was free. Monday morning, the requisite bill had been slid under our door. Uh-oh, I grabbed and saw the bill. Holy Shit! Room service, oh I mean, in suite dining is pricey. Movies were good but damn why did we order that one and all fall asleep, its on the bill! My eyes fall to the bottom, total, line. Wha, How...zero dollars. SWEET The only thing we spent money on was the zoo and a tank of gas (which by the way the X5 made awesome gas milage to and from San Diego, shocked the hell out of me). We left San Diego pretty early. We had to stop off at Kai's manager's office to pick up another CD. On the way home we made a couple of stops. T and I are thinking of getting another car so we stopped off at the dearlership on the way home to get up close and personal with the little beauty and then drove by the Chinese theater to check out the folks in the Star Wars line.

Today its back at work. I have yet to check my email and on top of that I am not feeling well. I really can't go home as I've had three days off. I haven't looked at my calendar so I don't know if I have any meetings or not. But I'll find out soon enough.

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Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:38 a.m.

I feel lightheaded this morning. Maybe I need to eat. I guess the bowl of cereal coupled with a cup of coffee and an energy drink was not the way to go this morning. Just over an our to go before lunch and boy do I need it. Mmmmm.....maybe some coconut chicken, rice and a small appetizer. That sounds so good. I may need to scrounge up some munchies ahead of time as I feel like i'm getting a little dizzy.

I found a doggie kennel near my house and for a lot cheaper then what I was paying at their vet. Its literally a few blocks from my house so the time saved driving is worth a lot! I need to call their vet today to fax over some vaccination documentation so the Small animal hospital will watch my doggies this weekend. I'm very excited about this discovery and may even splurge and have them bathed and nails trimmed during their stay.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 07:11 a.m.

Oscar is being such a naughty dog. He is totally attention starved and doing everything in his will power to make sure we know it. He's been spraying everywhere! It is so disgusting. My house is one big febreezed zone. I told T if we come home and he has ripped the new couch i'm dropping him off at the animal shelter (mostly me speaking with verbal diarrhea)! He's getting some attention, granted not as much as he used to prior to Kai but god damn, we're both stretched so thin. I'm getting totally annoyed with the damn dog. He even sprayed Kai's walker. Hopefully this phase passes. When my mom get's here Oscar will get much more attention as T and I will have the time to play with him and Daisy. I'm actually surprised that it took Oscar so long to become a pain in the ass I actually expected this a bit sooner.

I need to do some researching online. I need to find a kennel to house my dogs over the weekend since we're going down to San Diego. There's always my vet but I feel that it's kind of pricey there and it just seems so far. We're on the most westerly end of Glendale and the vet is on the most easterly end of Pasadnea, that's a really big stretch. I would much rather find some place a little closer. Anyone have any ideas?

I got so much cleaning done yesterday afternoon. I just have a couple of more loads of laundry. my bedroom and the bathroom needs to be cleaned and that's it! I'm hoping we'll be able to keep the place relatively clean for the duration of her visit.

I just received The Incredibles from Netflix. I fell asleep half way through but its been awesome so far. This is one flick I may have to buy on DVD for myserlf. I should be receiving Gung Ho and Taxi today and then I need to re-order my Netflix queue.

The day's have been so pretty here is SoCal. But the mornings are freezing. I try not to bundle myself up because all that results in is me carrying out tons of crap at the end of the day. I've sworn off any type of coats and have been sticking to layering with ultimately a topper consisting of a jean jacket, blazer or track jacket. Matches everything as is relativerly light weight. For example today I opted for a white wifebeater, thin knit long sleeved wrap top and a jean jacket. I've paired it with a black praire skirt and metallic flip-flops and a thin, skinny black scarf (for the morning). Not to warm but warm enough. I was never a big flip-flop wearing person but now I find it one of my indispensible accessories!

As hard as I tried to fade coffee out to the weekends only, I have to say I have fallen off the wagon and am now back to the black stuff. Yum! I must say I've missed it. It keeps my tummy warm and really gets my day kicked off the right way.

Now I'm going to sip my hot cup of coffee, blare The killers through my headphones and read some news online.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 07:22 a.m.

I'm really enjoying the new Black Eyed Peas song. It's very upbeat, great for doing housework, exercising that kind of stuff. You can hear it here. I'm not really a fan of pop music but I do enjoy me some Black Eyed Peas!

I bought some Teething tablets and Baby Motrin after work yesterday and man did that make a HUGE difference. Those tablets dissolve so freakin' quickly I couldn't believe it. We've now ditched the Tylenol and Orajel combo. Turns out One of Kai's top tooth has come through and the other one is not far behind. Once those teeth come through, he'll be a one man biting machine. So everyone better watch out. He's already tried biting the doggies little legs on numerous occasions.

So T and I have been passively looking at property. I dont' think we'll be selling and buying anytime in the real near future but its nice to keep an eye out. Should we buy another place it will most likely not be in Glendale, we both want to live a bit more west in LA....don't actually want to talk about this now.

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Monday, April 18, 2005 02:50 p.m.

In our office today, its the first offical day under our new rebrand. . Yeah, no life altering difference. Changed my outgoing signature in my email as well as my voicemail and that's about it. Scored some schawg and anticipate more to come.

Yesterday was such a nice day. We went to Billy's for breakfast and was home by 10.30 am. Lounged around watching TV. The baby even napped for an hour and a half. It was nice and lazy. Later in the afternoon we went to a BBQ in La Crescenta. It was nice to hang out with my new group of co-workers. Even T enjoyed himself. He works with all these people as well but has almost no interaction with them at all. So he was excited to meet some new people. Kai was calm and happy and he even got to have a little bit of cupcake frosting while we were out.

Last night was an entirely different story. Kai went down around 9 or so but woke up around midnight and then again at 3 am. His top two teeth are coming in so he is really cranky and uncomfortable. I don't think the Tylenol is working anymore. I may need to break out the big guns and try some baby motrin. He hates Orajel and totally gags when we put the teeniest dot into his mouth. I don't blame him in the least. I need to get some Humphrey's or someother teething tablets. I feel so bad for him, he must be in some serious pain cause normally he sleeps so soundly and doesn't wake us up at all.

I'm so scared gas pries are going to reach 3 bucks a gallon. I mean, its not far off. I will have to start limiting my needless driving and seriously plan my weekends so I don't blow through my gas. My mom bought me some sort of gas additive that adds about an extra 60-miles to your gas tank. I found this online which i'll check periodically as I dont' know how reliable it is, yet.

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Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:30 a.m.

Yesterday was an extremely long and extremely tiring day. First off we were able to pick up the CD of Kai's photos, which turned out fantastic. I'm so antsy because so far we have know idea which photo will be selected as the final headshot. But once its selected, touched up, ordered and finally picked up the game can really begin. Mom and dad have requested we order a little extra so they can have some to give to their friends.

Once we picked up the photos we high-tailed it up to Santa Clarita. A friend of mine was having a little birthday get together at Mountasia. I knew we were in trouble when half way up there the heat just started to intesify! Mountasia was fun! We hit the batting cages, arcade, mini-golf and stuffed ourselves at Farrells. Kai even got to dabble in a little vanilla ice cream that really put him in a great mood. Mountasia fun, Santa Clarita bad! Why anyone would choose to live up there is beyond me.

We left Mountasia around 5pm and stopped by our friends house in Valley Village. Jen had a baby about a month ago and we desperately wanted to meet the little guy and BBQ while we were there. It was great seeing Jenny. Physically she's so close to her pre-baby self, wish I could say the same. But I guess there is more motivation when your paycheck is dependant on it. We had a nice time, chatted and ate and within in two hours we were back in the car heading home. Luckily it was only a quick ten-minute drive and we were in the comforts of home.

We watched Star Wars on TV and fell asleep.

Today is another day and another BBQ. Yep, another BBQ at 4pm. Its with some co-workers. Should be fun but definetly want to make it an early evening. I'd like to feed Kai at home and have some time to play before he goes down for the night. We'll see what happens.

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Friday, April 15, 2005 01:38 p.m.

The end of the work week is finally here! I'm tired. I'm losing focus. I really, really need a nap. Doubt i'll get one since T is feeling sick. He's plagued by a sore throat. Uuuggghhhh....I better not catch it from him. No way, no how. I bought him a box of Throat Coat but he still tries to sneak in some soda and cofee. Whatever, I just don't want it.

I'm anxiously awaiting the trucking company delivering our new couch to give me a ring. This damn thing has been back ordered since late February so you can see just how anxious I am. I'm also awaiting the arrival of my stock check. it always takes so damn long and I really need it! Wow, i really have no attention span. I can hardly focus to type. I'm just really tired. Really, really tired. I have a packed weekend. Birthday parties and BBQ's. Plus a quick drive to pick up a CD of photos. And I have an empty tank of gas. There goes another 50 dollars! I'm seriously going to cry if gas reaches 3+ that is so depressing. I know it was my perrogative to buy an SUV but when I had my coupe it was the same thing. Big gas tanks and not spectacular milage.

T and I want to buy a new car. Not a second car but a new car. Exchange mine for another SUV. Not anytime soon. Because the vehicle is in its first year we want to wait for another production year so more tests, reviews and enhancements are made. We'll get a second car, later. We work across the street from each other there's no need for a second vehicle now. Maybe later, and probably something used. Okay, so this other SUV. Yeah, once there's more info about it we will be able to make a better assessment. For now, There are just reviews from like car and driver road tests. I think we're going to take a look at this vehicle one weekend and really feel this thing out. I'm excited.

Mom will be here in a week. I think she gets in next Friday while i'm at work. The next day we're all heading down for a weekend in San Diego. Mom was able to secure a free Suite in La Jolla so we will be saving some mucho dinero! Gotta Love That! Of course, one day will be spent at the Zoo but the remainder of our trip will be enjoying the sites, sounds and food. We're defiently going to check out the architecture at the Salk Institure. We're architecture and desing nerds we can't help ourselves.

Kai's little personality is really starting to show. He is very strong willed, happy and playful baby. He's development skills is soaring and i'm dreading the day he walks. His speed crawling is out of control, he barely sits still for a diaper change. He just takes off pantless. Speaking of pantless, mark your calendars. He is able to climb onto and off the couch. He can tackle his baby gate down but still get's wedged under the rocker, which is hysterical. My mom is going to faint when she sees the little guy, he looks very different since the last time she saw him and he is able to do so much more beyond rolling on the ground. He couldn't even sit up when she saw him.

I've been on a Coke/Diet Coke rampage. I've been trying to shy away from the regular coke opting for C2 or Diet. For home I bought Diet Rite. No Sodium. No Carbs. No Caffiene. I need to have zero caffiene for home, because I like to have a soda at night with my dinner. Trust me Diet Rite is no coke substitute but priced considerable less. Light on my wallet good for me!

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Thursday, April 14, 2005 07:38 a.m.

It was a late night last night. T stayed home with Kai during the day and we had him sitted watch him last night so we could attend a parent orientation and Kai's management firm. Man, did they lay it all out on the table and you know what? I really don't blame them. They're totally doing the right thing, shake out the weak ones prior to investing time and energy with them. At one point they mentioned you'll probably have a five year turnaround, if that, before your child even sees network (big sitcoms and stuff), upon that statement the look on faces were astonishing. I think some parents signed on with no dose of reality. The thing that makes us a little different is that Kai is sa baby so he'll probably have more print and if he does end up in a commercial or whatever he doesn't speak, he doesn't walk so it will be solely be based on looks and temprement. Easy enought, or so we think. Well, we didn't leave the office until a quarter to ten and Kai was sound asleep, still asleep when we got him home and placed him in his crib. Not for long! He woke up and wanted to play. T and I would not play with him we just carried him, gave him a bottle and sang to him for a bit. He sat in his crib for a bit watching is Leap Frog Dream thingy and then put himself back to sleep. What a good boy!

My new issue of Lucky arrived yesterday but today is the first time I'm flipping throught it. I'll do the obligatory once through then go back throught the magazine thoroughly examining every page when I get home. There's a section on Web shopping which I like, I've already booked marked a few sites like this this and this. Bet you thought those were going to be links to clothes or shoes. Fooled ya. There's also a couple of pages on kid stuff (sort of) but what I loved was this little section on kids falling in love with one album in their parent's collection. I think this is true, for me it wasn't an album but a song. I really enjoyed and still like, nobody knows this, Kim Carnes, Bette Davis Eyes. I actually have a MP3 of this sung by Gwenyth Paltrow taken from the movie Duets. Anyway, I digress, but the article asked Blender magazine what some of the most commonly mentioned albums kids love from their parent's collection. Here is what he said:

Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (such a great album!)

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Talking Heads - The Best of Talking Heads

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend

Interesting stuff! Unfortunately of the five albums I only have one, Bob Marley - Legend. I should pick up that Jonathan Richman album....damn it should have burned a copy when I had the chance. On a slightly different musical note, Rolling Stone released the Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, skim the list here. Believe, I skimmed, I looked at the first few pages and then the last page. I'm pretty specific with my music and not real open to a lot of things. I get to easily annoyed but all I have to say is, eh.

Since payday is tomorrow, today is pay my bills day. I usually pay all my bills at the end of the month and the 14th. I just get them all out of the way. I've arragned all my due dates to fall around either pay period so I dont' stretch myself to thin at the start of each month. So I'm armed with my check book, a pile of bills, but no stamps. I meant to order some online but as previously mentioned I had a bunch of unexpected bills at the start of the month so I held off on most purchases, necessity or not. So on the way home I'll swing by the post office, buy some stamps and unload the two bills I mail. By the way, I love online bill paying. No autopayments for me. I used to have everything on autopayment but it was to hard for me to remember to keep track of finances. i want to know exactly wear my money is going, so to speak.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 a.m.

First and foremost, i'm freezing my butt off this morning. This office is damn chili in the morning. Once the office folk start staggering in around 10 this place will be nice and toasty. I have a busy day ahead of me, but don't want to talk about that now.

Yesterday afternoon Kai was such a crankmeister. He is really growing to hate his highchair. I give up really easily. Not cause I'm a wimp and can't take on a baby but my patience where's thin and I need to hand it off to T so he can give it a shot. The one thing we both found is that if we sing for the entire duration of his meal he will be fine. That's tough. A person can only sing Twinkle, Twinkle about three times before going completely crazy. The song works like a charm but its really hard to sing it over and over and over! The little guy is really digging tofu. We've given him mushed up chicken which was eh to him but the tofu, LOVES IT! The doctor said I should start giving him protein so there it is. He likes beef, chicken is eh and turkey...well we haven't tried that yet. Maybe tonight. Kai is almost thorugh his bottle of Albuterol and I really need to remember to call the pharmacy to prepare his refill. The stuff really, really works. He's been so happy and loving lately. He is really into cuddling and curling up on you it so cute!

Sometimes I think about going back to school for a Masters. I'm torn. I don't know if I'll have the time to go back to school and I don't know what I would do with that degree. It's not like I want to go back to school to be a lawyer or doctor. I was thinking of going back to school for a Masters in Art History. Other then personal enrichment, what exactly would I be doing with that degree? I've also been thinking of going back for another BFA but in another area of focus other then Graphic Deisgn and Industrial Design. I loved being in school. College was awesome. Living in Chicago going to college was awesome! No worries, I didn't care that I lived below poeverty level. Actually I lived below poverty level but traveled to NYC and Europe on school vacations and got a big ass tattoo. Not bad! Now, I can only thing about that and plan for stuff. Europe was planned but not to the extent of planning and coordinating now. Oh, how I miss those days.

I'm three-quarters through my styrofoam cup of McDonalds black coffee. Man this stuff is strong! It's like 7-11 coffee. Eye opening, solid balck coffee, just the way I like it. Im not much of a fancy coffee drinker. When I go to the Coffee Bean it's for an Americano, nothing fancy there just two shots of straight espresso and some hot water. I much prefer dark, strong black coffee. Once in awhile, when out shopping or something i'll indulge in a Coffee Bean Ice Blended. Those things are heaven! But don't get me wrong, because I like my coffee strong and black doesn't mean i'll drink just anything. There needs to be a nice smooth taste so in some regards I am picky with my coffee. When I buy coffee for home I normally have my mom send me the 100 percent or 24 Karat pure Kona Coffee. So strong, so smooth, so good. I've been looking for a new coffee pot, I have shopped around and decided on this. Nice thing is that they are on sale at CB2. I told T that I want this for our anniversary. It sounds simply fabulous.

Took that last swig of my McD's coffee. Whew!

If I have time this week I need to stop by Linden Optometry to pick up a new pair of glasses. I need new frames. My current frames are gret but they continuously slide down my face and Kai loves ripping them off of me. I swear he'll break them one of these days. And when that happens I'll be as blind as a bat if I don't have a back-up pair ready to go. I'll have to limit my current pair for home use and the new pair for work use and contacts for social use. Yeah that'll work!

And now on to some news that really matters.

curious about Ashlee's rider, take a peek.

Robotic Alarm clock will make you wake up.

What's wrong with some Sizzling Bacon

Oh Gawd, Paris, just get over it.

Looks like ,a href="http://www.starmagazine.com/news/61637" target="new">trouble in paradise.

As Star puts it, The War of the Wars

Meow! Eva Longoria stepped in as the guest Pussycat.

The lesbian chicks from Inferno 2 has their own t-shrit line.

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Monday, April 11, 2005 07:12 a.m.

I had a pretty nice weekend. Now that I have Saturday and Sunday's off my weekends definetly feel more productive. On Satureday we woke up nice and early, made some breakfast and ate while Kai slept, which was a nice treat. Once we were dressed and ready we woke the little guy up and got him dressed to start the day. We left home around a quarter to nine and headed down to his Manager's office. We were meeting a photographer their to get his headshots taken. We took about 5 outfits with us but luckily only needed two. He did really well. One thing I can always count on Kai for, that is to ham it up to the camera. He was giggly and smiley. Towards the end of the shoot he started to get bored. He didn't cry or fuss he just stopped smiling and rather stared blankely at the camera. At that point the photographer scrolled through her images and realized she had all that she needed and she called it a wrap. It was not even eleven when we left. We were going to swing by the Beverly Center but realized neither of us wanted to shop. We decided to drive around the neighborhoods sourrounding the office. Soooooo beautiful! Unfortunately I dont' know the name of the area its located between Wilshire and Pico near San Vicente. I mean you could drive down a street and not cross any structure that wasn't Spanish Style! After driving around for a bit we headed home and did some laundry and basically hung out and watched movies. That evening we headed to a birthday party in Los Feliz. Luckily we were able to get Kai down for a little nap. The birthday party was fun. There was some good food and definetly good company. Its funny the party was for a friend of mine who used to work here with me but left. The company she workds for now comprises of a lot of our ex-employees. They love what they do but I would not want to drive out to Westlake Village!

Yesterday was mellow, really mellow. Just hung around the house for most of the day. Around noon I had a major sinus headache coming on and T was beginning to grow antsy. He wanted to get out right when I was feeling my worst. Okay, I bit the bullet and got dressed. There were bunch of open houses we wanted to look at. I figured I could deal with that. Not to much energy to exert nor did I need to really think. The first house we looked at has been on the market for a coupld of months and the price was finally reduced. It was a beautiful home, totally rehabbed. The property was large and there was nothing bad to say about the house. The only funky thing was the master bedroom but that was correctable. The master and the informal dining/breakfast/family room were add ons. Outside of the add ons I was surprised to see how the layout was identical to our home. Everything about the home was stunning! All in all we looked at a few homes in Northeast Glendale, Los Feliz and Hollywood Hills East. After a few hours of open houses we headed home. At this point my sinus headache was out of control. Its typical that at this time of year my allergies just go beserk! My sinus cavities start to ache and I just get the worst headaches ever. The are really indescribable. I took a few allergy pills and tried desperately to sleep. It took about an hour before those damn pills kicked in. When I finally woke up I thought I would be able to catch Desparate Housewives but it was 10pm. I had been asleep for almost 6-hours! I stomped off to my bedroom and fell right back asleep. Because I slept a good portion of my sleep on the couch my back and shoulder is ll kinked up. I hate that damn couch! hate it, hat it, hate it! I wish we never bought it. We did buy a new couch and are awaiting delivery which should be anyday now.

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Friday, April 8, 2005 08:25 a.m.

It's Friday! Woo Hoo! Plans have been made for the weekend but I really just want to chill. I really need to make it a priority to clean the den this weekend. The couch we ordered in February, has finally shipped (yeah, a month+ later) so I need to make room for that and figure out how the hell T and I are going to move the TV into that room. When we first bought the TV I could barely help him lift the damn thing off the ground to get it on the TV Stand. We had to call a friend over to help him. Yeah, I'm a wimp, what't it to you?

I've got Soft Cell on heavy launch rotation. I love it. I have Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret on Vinyl which does me no use since I don't have my turntable hooked up. Note to self: Buy Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret on CD. As i've droned on and on before, I am very happy with my Launch radio station. Im on the verge of obsessing over it. Between that and iTunes I'm so good to go. So today I'm armed with my radio station and an XS energy drink. It's gonna be a good day.

I sold a little bit of stock yesterday. I should have my check by next week. As much as I want to buy myself one thing I'm going to try and resist. I know what I want, two things only, but I need to put it at the back of my head. I want to use the money towards house stuff plus I had some unexpected bills at the end of last month (my car repairs and I added earthquake insurance to my homeowenrs policy so I had to pay for that as well.) We'll see, but whatever the case money will be used for good, practical reasons.

On the drive to the sitters this morning I was driving next to a white pick up. I started to slow down so I dropped to half the car length. And to my dismay my eyes fell to two stickers plastered on its back windsheild/window thing. I laughed in horror. Oh I thought these stickers disappered in 1998. C.A.L.V.I.N. Ugh!!!!! he had the requiste Calvin peeing sticker. AND Calvin pooping sticker. What the? I honestly don't get it. Never got it, really. What's with that facination? What is it so cool? Cause really its not! Sorry to anyone sporting a circa 1998 Calvin sticker but they are simply retarded!

I need to buy a birthday gift this weekend. I have a few things in mind but I don't know. The kinds of gifts that I like to buy people are things the really like but would not necessarily buy it for themselves. Or things I think they'll like but wouldn't think of spending the money for. That's why I think it makes a great gift. As for registries, unless you have something I personally like I probably won't buy you anythign off the list. Is that horrible? I figure i'm spending the money I want to be happy with what I spent my hard earned cash on! Does that make me a bad guest? I don't know if I care. Oh, oh, I got a funny example. So we had friends that got married and made the fatal mistake of putting off buying a gift because i wasn't thrilled with the registry. Finally I said screw it but all that was left was like 2 bottles of dish soap, a fork, butter knife and a saucer, or something like that. I said F-This...The guy, T's friend, was very much into design like us so we wanted to get him something cool, edgy, designy...so we went to Barney's and bought him a Phillipe Starck Lemon Juicer, we would have loved a gift like this! Okay it was shiny and beautifal and nicely gift wrapped from the store, we arrived in Malibu for the wedding and we had the sole little black and silver wrapped prezzie swimming in a sea of Williams Sonoma and Crate and Barrel boxes. I was thrilled! A few weeks after the wedding we get the obligatory thank you card. In it states something to the effect, ...thank you for the cool silver sculpture....We laughed hard. We're like, damn A he should know exactly what that was. Okay, we thought it was funny. Now a year goes by and we get this call out of the blue. and it's A and K, and they are overy excited and practically yelling in the phone ...oh my god, we finally figured out what you got us for our wedding! Thank you so much. We love it, we've used it and its awesome. and then A says...I was sitting at home one day staring at it and it hit me. Phillipe Starck lemon juicer! Duh! That is such an awesome gift. You see, the reason why we got him that was becasue everything on the registry was clearly selected by K and we wanted to get something the A would appreciate and he does, now that he figured out what we got him.

So there's so much swirling around is Britney preggo or not? Well why not just ask Fetus Spears.
She can talk the talk but can she walk the walk
This is perfect!
That's gotta hurt!
It must suck to have your drama played out in this way, the price of celebrity.
Im finding The Star Wars Line drama to funny. They have an entire Web site you know.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2005 02:36 p.m.

Okay, I admit it. I'm a closet frozen yogurt fiend! There's this place in Old Town called 21 Choices and I can't stop myself. Every day I check their Web sit to see what they have , if they don't have something that tickles my fancy I'll down there and get a mix in. They do that thing like Cold Stone Creamry where you can pick different candies and toppings and they mix/chop it all in to make your own flavor of choice. Yum! I feel so much better letting it out...big sigh of relief.

Have you heard that song by the Kaiser Cheifs called I Predict A Riot? Is it just me or does it kinda sound like The Smiths/Morrissey? When I first heard it I thought it was something off of Morrissey's newest album. It bugged the hell out of me cause I didn't know who sang it. I found out it was the Kaiser Chiefs a few weeks ago which eased my frustration, but damn that vocalist sounds like Morrissey on that song. But you listen to some of their other songs and they sound more like IMA Robot. Go figure.

Don't know if your work allows you to have iTunes but its fantastic. We're all hooked up at work and some people have some awesome music selections, specifically one group in my old department. To bad I can't burn the music straight from their iTunes list on my computer on to a CD. Oh well. At least I don't have to bring music to work and can just plug into someones playlist. Yippee for iTunes!

Don't know if I mentioned that Kai had a fat lip last week. He fell and bit his lip it was sad, I hated seeing him with the little scab and fat lip. Luckily it didn't hurt him but still, you know? Well the scab is gone and he's heeled up. No scar, thank god! It's so heart wrenching to see your little baby like that. These are feelings I didn't even know I had. Awwww....now I wanna go get him from the sitter and lay in bed watching Baby Einstein videos with him. I joined the Glendale Meetup for Playgroups. I RSVP'd (is that even a correct abbreviation?) to go but the person who organized it didn't even bother to RSVP so i changed my response to a "No, I won't be going" I was kind of sad cause it would be great to have some people to hang out with who have kids and the kids can play and the mom's could just chill with conversation and coffee! I have a few friends with kids around Kai's age but we don't do things regularly. Hmmm...what to do?

T wants to join the Elks Lodge just to utilize the bar for cheap drinks. My mom and dad are Elks for the use of the bar. The Burbank Elks lodge will be near our work and T is trying to rally up some people to join and basically take over. I found out you can only join if a current Elk sponsors you which means we would have to join in Hawaii or my parents will need to come here but the process could possibly be weeks! I on the other hand want to be a Friar. Looks like its all fun and games there, dinner and dancing! There's some other comments I would like to insert but I will reserve them for fear of it ruining my chances to join. Hehehe. My tooth is aching and I gotta some issues I gotta wrap up before heading home.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005 07:48 p.m.

Stolen from Simply Red who stole it from the Cheesemistress

Have You Ever:

(X) snuck out of the house
(X) gotten lost in your city
(X) saw a shooting star
(X) been to any other countries besides the United States
(X) had a serious surgery
(X) gone out in public in your pajamas
(X) kissed a stranger
(X) hugged a stranger
(X) been in a fist fight
( ) been arrested
( ) done drugs
(X) had alcohol
(X) laughed and had milk/coke come out of your nose
(X) pushed all the buttons on an elevator
(X) made out in an elevator
( ) slept in an elevator
(X) swore at your parents
(X) kicked a guy where it hurts
(X) been in love
(X) been close to love
(X) been to a casino
( ) been skydiving
( ) broken a bone
( ) been high
( ) skinny-dipped
(X) skipped school
( ) flashed someone
( ) saw a therapist
(X) done the splits
(X) played spin the bottle
(X) gotten stitches
(X) had an IV
( ) drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour
(X) bitten someone
( ) been to Niagara Falls
(X) gotten the chicken pox
(X) kissed a member of the opposite sex
(X) kissed a member of the same sex
(X) crashed into a friend's car
( ) been to Japan
(X) ridden in a taxi
(X) been dumped
(X) shoplifted
( ) been fired
(X) had a crush on someone of the same sex
(X) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
(X) stole something from your job
( ) gone on a blind date
(X) lied to a friend
( ) had a crush on a teacher
( ) celebrated Mardi-Gras in New Orleans
(X) been to Europe
( ) slept with a co-worker
(X) been married
( ) gotten divorced
(X) had children
(X) saw someone die
( ) been to Africa
(X) driven over 400 miles in one day
(X) been to Canada
(X) been to Mexico
(X) been on a plane
( ) seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) thrown up in a bar
(X) purposely set a part of yourself on fire
(X) eaten sushi
( ) been snowboarding
(X) met someone in person from the internet
(X) been moshing at a rock show
( ) cut yourself on purpose
( ) been to a moto cross show
( ) lost a child
(X) gone to college
(X) graduated from college
( ) done hard drugs
(X) taken painkillers
(X) love someone or miss someone right now

Its two days into the work week and all is calm on the Western front. I got a lot of small tasks completed which I am thankful for. I still need more items to fill my day. I entered my new department on a low, transitional period. So I'm just doing a lot of fixes for now. Not complaining because I would much rather be where I am now then where I was thirty some odd days ago! I'm looking forward to my days picking up. When we have our next launch i'll be in business.

Kai still has a little bit of a wheeze. May be allergies could be asthma doctor can't quite determine cause he has no other symptoms. Nontheless he's taking albuteral drops three times per day which is helping but is taking a little bit of time. Picked Kai up from the sitters today and he felt suspiciously warm. Sure enough he has a fever. It's gone down a little bit since we got home but we're still keeping an eye on him. Unfortunately I can't given any baby Tylenol cause he is only 2.5-3 hours into his albuterol. When he fusses in the night I have instructed T to go ahead and give hime some Tylenol in order to bring down the baby's fever.

We got home and all the power in the house was gone. We couldn't get through to GWP, I guess everyone in Glendale was trying to get an explanation. With nothing else to do we put some shoes on loaded the baby in his stroller strapped the harnesses on the pups and went for a walk. On the way back we noticed that the stoplight at the end of the street was out. Cars were mental, honking and getting totally uppity. These drivers were acting like they didn't know what to do! Take away their license, all of them!

Alright dinner needs to be made. Another late night for dinner.

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Monday, April 4, 2005 07:36 a.m.

Sin City was great! Cinematography was fantastic, story was pretty good and the violence....Oh, the violence. It had a Natural Born Killers feel to it which is alright in my book!

I had a pretty busy weekend, busier then its been in a long while. Let's see...Friday night i went to a little get together at a friends place in Pasadena. It was nice and intimate. With the exception of a few girls I had a nice time. There were two girls there specifically that were annoying, annoying like highschool freshmen and they are my age which is really sad! Nick made a fabulous dinner and Kai was on his best behavior. It was an early night. Probably got home about 10pm. Saturday we headed down to Santa Monica around noon. I needed to swing by Lifesize at Fred Segal. You know, it is very hard to find baby clothes in solid dark colors! What a bitch! If you haven't been to Fred Segal, the concept is kind of cool. Its one big store made up of much smaller boutiques I like it a lot. It reminds me of some of the shops I visited in Europe. Okay, we did a once around of some of the boutiques we like then split. We took surface streets home, the long way as we like to call it, to kill some time. Stopped at South Street in Burbank for some Philly Cheesesteaks and fries. It was so damn good, i'm hooked! Of course we got the order to go, I needed to go home and switch into my big pants in order to consume the meal with no guilt. Sunday, as already mentioned, went to the Paseo in Pasadena to see Sin City then shopped a bit for shoes. I had to get him in time to cook dinner and settle in for Desparate Housewives.

A great big congratualtions to Lawbyrd who had her little girl this weekend! Can't wait to see those pics!

What was playing at your highschool prom? Upon review of this list for the year 1992, sure enough they are right on target. That awful Vanessa Williams diddy was indeed my prom song!
Don't know if you like Yahoo! or Google then use both
Are you still wondering if Brit is preggo?

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Sunday, April 3, 2005 01:13 p.m.

I hate daylight savings. I feel as though my day has been cheated! But on to other things.

Woke up early, or so I thought, made some yummy pancakes with fres straberries and powdered sugar. Got Kai down for a nap and then headed out to the grocery store by myself. I enjoy going to the market alone. I spend less money and end up buying things we need rather then things we think we need. T can be a distraction at the market. But don't tell him that. I attempted to make some call backs but got voicemail. No big deal I'll try during the week.

This entry is a little rushed as I need to get out of the house in a few minutes. Val and I are going to try and make the 1.45 showing of Sin City in Pasadena. As you can see its 1.15 now so we'll see. I just couldn't bare a blank page. More later

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