The Gaddis went again for the third time in two years for kuya jofre and ate mye's wedding on 10/10/10. I'm gonna try to break down the trip from my point of view.
Friday:
We get there at night after leaving thursday morning because of the airplane time machine. Starting to be tradition to go to Nomu right when we get there to meet up all the cousins. It's a small bar that my cousin part owns, and we meet most of the cousins there with some of their friends. We take over the vip room upstairs, and we take lots of shots and drink lots of beer. All the girls peace out, and we go to heartbeat. Everyone gets super drunk, and the girls are ugly. We get burger king, which becomes a recurring theme, and they wouldn't let us back into ate dianne's condo. We sleep at kuya jofre's, and I get a migraine and kick kuya jofre all night.
Saturday:
Kuya allen wakes us up to take us home so they can do stuff for the wedding. We're super hungover, and kuya russell stays to buy a suit for the wedding. Me and bryan just go to sleep when we get to the condo. We get ready to go to kalumpit where kuya tong and his brother's live. The condo doesn't have hot water, but the pressure and flow are good. Tita claire's house is super duper hot. She's kuya tong's mom and tito fred's wife. Kuya tong keeps wanting us to drink, but me and my brother are too hungover. We stay there all day, and everyone just keeps napping in the air conditioned rooms while I nap twice out in the living room and be soaking with sweat. We finally are all up, and we start drinking some beer while listening to kuya bong's cd's. He's a councilman and kuya tong's brother, so he has a jingle from his campaign. It's a parody of nobody but you by the wondergirls. Another cd we hear is a bunch of acoustic covers of pop songs from lady gaga and others, so we ask kuya bong's wife to burn us some. Time to leave and then party. Gets kinda late when we finally get to metrowalk to meet up kuya russell with kuya jofre and his family and the chicago people. On the way in, we see kuya russell walking out ballin it up. He says he's coming back. Everyone left before we got there, so we tried to party at aruba, just me, bryan, marianne, ate nicole, ida, and kuya rex. We get kuya jofre and them to come back baby. Party time. At least that's what it felt like to me, but it could have just been me kuya rex and fel. We met her chinese boyfriend for the first time there. She one upped me cause I didn't bring my chinese girlfriend, just my filipina one. Joke lang. We go to burger king, and kuya rex tries to order 2 of everything, but end up getting like 2 of 3 of the value meals. Me and him eat almost all of it. I get another migraine and throw up in the sink. Boom.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Weights
So not so much strength training anymore cause my basketball league started again. Plus my schedule is getting full after work.
Sundays:
- Morning game for league after drinking all weekend.
- Evening ball with jessica's friends.
Mondays:
- Maybe bball practice with united at night.
- If no practice, then I want bowling here cause I want to go at least once a week.
Tuesdays:
- Tennis with my dad. Guilting me into it, but I also want to get unrusty.
Wednesdays:
- This is when I hope jason makes practice cause basketball gets all jumbled up on sundays and mondays. Sometimes we have scrimmages with other teams on wednesdays like tonight.
- If no practice, I want bowling here.
- If no bowling, finally get to workout, prob upper body cause legs are tired from all the sports.
Thursdays:
- Work out
- Hang out with jessica
- Maybe bowl, prob darts and such.
Fridays:
- Work out
- Party time.
Sundays:
- Morning game for league after drinking all weekend.
- Evening ball with jessica's friends.
Mondays:
- Maybe bball practice with united at night.
- If no practice, then I want bowling here cause I want to go at least once a week.
Tuesdays:
- Tennis with my dad. Guilting me into it, but I also want to get unrusty.
Wednesdays:
- This is when I hope jason makes practice cause basketball gets all jumbled up on sundays and mondays. Sometimes we have scrimmages with other teams on wednesdays like tonight.
- If no practice, I want bowling here.
- If no bowling, finally get to workout, prob upper body cause legs are tired from all the sports.
Thursdays:
- Work out
- Hang out with jessica
- Maybe bowl, prob darts and such.
Fridays:
- Work out
- Party time.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Week 3
8/30 Squats: 215 lbs (5,5,5,5) some not low enough
Pull ups: (7,5,4)
8/31 Bench: 135 lbs (8,8,7) still trying to do 12 reps
9/1 Squat Jumps: 95 lbs (5,5,5,5)
9/2 Press: 65 lbs (12,9,10,6,12,11) longer rests only reason I got back up to 12
9/3 Squat: 145 lbs (10,10,10,10) work on form and build endurance
Pull ups: (7,5)
Pull ups: (7,5,4)
8/31 Bench: 135 lbs (8,8,7) still trying to do 12 reps
9/1 Squat Jumps: 95 lbs (5,5,5,5)
9/2 Press: 65 lbs (12,9,10,6,12,11) longer rests only reason I got back up to 12
9/3 Squat: 145 lbs (10,10,10,10) work on form and build endurance
Pull ups: (7,5)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
week 2
8/23 Squat: 205 lbs (5,5,5) technique sucks, front of my hips still hurt sometimes
Pull ups: (7,5) just going to failure
8/24 Bench: 125 lbs (12,10,7,7)
Rim jumps alternate hands: (10)
8/25 Powercleans: Just tried them, I suck at them.
8/26 Squat Jumps: Read about them at work and thought they were better for jumping than power cleans. 95 lbs
8/27 Press: 65 lbs (12,10,8)
Pull ups: (5,5,5)
Pull ups: (7,5) just going to failure
8/24 Bench: 125 lbs (12,10,7,7)
Rim jumps alternate hands: (10)
8/25 Powercleans: Just tried them, I suck at them.
8/26 Squat Jumps: Read about them at work and thought they were better for jumping than power cleans. 95 lbs
8/27 Press: 65 lbs (12,10,8)
Pull ups: (5,5,5)
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
week 1
Starting to track weights
Squat 8/17: 205 lbs (5,5)
Press 8/18: 65 lbs (12,8,8)
Deadlift 8/19: 155 lbs (5,5)
Bench 8/20: 125 lbs (10,8,6)
I was trying to do 3 work sets of 5 reps on squat and deadlift, then try to do them at max velocity after I get good at them for power.
Then I was trying to do 3 work sets of at least 12 reps for the press and bench.
Squat 8/17: 205 lbs (5,5)
Press 8/18: 65 lbs (12,8,8)
Deadlift 8/19: 155 lbs (5,5)
Bench 8/20: 125 lbs (10,8,6)
I was trying to do 3 work sets of 5 reps on squat and deadlift, then try to do them at max velocity after I get good at them for power.
Then I was trying to do 3 work sets of at least 12 reps for the press and bench.
Friday, July 9, 2010
office happenings: New for real job
Started that new for real job at FMC Technologies on June 21st. After today, it will be 3 weeks. So far all I've done is study all the junk we make. Feels like school taught me one percent of this.
So I'll run through a typical day.
-Get here at like 8:03 and boot up computer, takes forever with the laptops they gave us.
-Start looking up on the internet on my phone. Download apps, look at cars I might get, play games on my phone, etc. Do all this while periodically looking in a binder with work stuff in it when I hear people walk by.
-Open up work stuff on my computer like the home FMC intranet page, Outlook, the softphone that goes with the bluetooth headset that no one uses, and some power point slides.
-Study for a little and play with my phone at the same time for the next few hours till lunch at 11:30.
-Take a dump between 830 and 10. Play with my phone in there until it there's no one else around, so I can come out. Also, listen to everyone explode into their toilets next to me.
-Lunch time until like 1230. Usually go to my brother's house to eat whatever they got, or go eat out with coworkers or jessica. My coworkers used to ask me everyday, but they figured out that I would say I'm just gonna eat at home unless it's wednesday, which is Wings n More day. First week, I never said no cause I was super new. It's not that boring to eat with them cause they're all only 1-3 years older than me.
-Come back at around 1230 and do the same thing until five that I was doing before lunch. I've spent a lot of time signing up and reading about my benefits and 401k and doing all these computer based trainings. Also, figuring out cool ways to use my phone, like blogging which took a while to figure out the best way to do it.
Today is actually the first day of engineering boot camp and starts at lunch. Maybe I'll talk about what it is after wards if I figure out what it is.
Perce!
So I'll run through a typical day.
-Get here at like 8:03 and boot up computer, takes forever with the laptops they gave us.
-Start looking up on the internet on my phone. Download apps, look at cars I might get, play games on my phone, etc. Do all this while periodically looking in a binder with work stuff in it when I hear people walk by.
-Open up work stuff on my computer like the home FMC intranet page, Outlook, the softphone that goes with the bluetooth headset that no one uses, and some power point slides.
-Study for a little and play with my phone at the same time for the next few hours till lunch at 11:30.
-Take a dump between 830 and 10. Play with my phone in there until it there's no one else around, so I can come out. Also, listen to everyone explode into their toilets next to me.
-Lunch time until like 1230. Usually go to my brother's house to eat whatever they got, or go eat out with coworkers or jessica. My coworkers used to ask me everyday, but they figured out that I would say I'm just gonna eat at home unless it's wednesday, which is Wings n More day. First week, I never said no cause I was super new. It's not that boring to eat with them cause they're all only 1-3 years older than me.
-Come back at around 1230 and do the same thing until five that I was doing before lunch. I've spent a lot of time signing up and reading about my benefits and 401k and doing all these computer based trainings. Also, figuring out cool ways to use my phone, like blogging which took a while to figure out the best way to do it.
Today is actually the first day of engineering boot camp and starts at lunch. Maybe I'll talk about what it is after wards if I figure out what it is.
Perce!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Changes/Weekend Recap
This past week was SO RAINY. Hurricane Alex was en route to Mexico so we had to deal with some major tropical storm damage. Pouring rain, flooded streets, heat and humidity. Just a quick reminder of this week's setting.
So, on Thursday Philip came over around dinner time. (Haven't been seeing as much of each other since he started his job sooooo far away and lives at his brother's house soooooo far away.) Over the phone we planned on having Japanese food but Chris & Shara called and invited us to eat at Huynh's downtown which he said was BYOW. We're there. I was walking to the corner store to get two bottles when Philip pulled up to my house, so I made him walk with me. He was all disgruntled at the way I was holding the umbrella 'cause he was getting wet. I think people who are not holding the umbrella should have to keep up with the one holding it in order to make it work.
Huynh's was pretty good. Philip had the pho which I liked because it was heavy on the star anise (licorice flavor is what I like to call it). I had a charbroiled chicken rice plate which I thought tasted better at Pho Saigon. Two bottles of wine = not enough wine for 4 people. Shara didn't have to work the next day so we ended up going to her and Chris's house to have some bloody mary's. We woulda had some Sweet Tea, but it was a dummy bottle. Someone drank all of it and then refilled the bottle with soy sauce and water instead. So clever. Except my nose works so you can't fool me. Go ahead, insert big-nose-joke here. We played sing-star and I could only beat people when I harmonized with Philip and then we went to Glitter to continue the karaoking for a little bit.
On Friday Rex had a party at his house. He lives way out on the other side of the world too, so Philip just went there straight from his brother's house. I caught a ride with Chris and Shara and we decided to take 45 to the beltway which was THE WORST IDEA EVER. We were stuck in traffic for a straight hour because the feeder was completely flooded and cars were driving through the grass to come up onto the freeway. The whole time we were starving and we kept debating whether or not to exit and get some food. Texted Philip about what food was there and he said they ordered pizza which made my mouth water. When we got there I totally thought it was a pineapple pizza but it was grilled chicken. I'm pretty sure everyone got fooled by that too because statistically more people get pineapple pizza than chicken pizza, and that's a fact jack. Also, 48% of all statistics are made up. We played a lot of beer pong in Rex's garage with a million mosquitoes and million couches. His roommate is like the most useful roommate ever. He made a fan station to flow the A/C from inside the house to the garage and hooked up some speakers for music. But we didn't need either of those things to win the first 4 rounds of beer pong. Win! Win! Win! Philip thought he was such a funny guy that night. It was probably one of his career highs. My ride left me there at the end of the night so I had to beg Philip to give me a place to stay. Psych. More like the other way around.
Saturday. Philip, Bryan and Russell went to work out and left me and Marianne to do whatever we wanted. She took me around the northside and we went to The Container Store where Martha Stewart's biggest fans all work. That place makes you want to buy everything and makes you want to change your life. But man, every time you stopped to look at something a lady would walk up and have a story to tell you about why that thing is so awesome. It worked and I'm a sucker. I got talked into buying a thing that soaks up moisture in a room and collects it in a basin. What's embarrassing is that I talked it up like it was the best thing ever to Philip, hours after buying it. I'm pretty sure I'm returning everything that I bought from there. After that Marianne's like, "Wanna go to DSW to look at shoes?" Yesyesyesyesyeys. So many goodies so little money. Marianne was trying on these black heels and this old Mexican lady sitting near us was looking, so I gave her the thumbs up, like "yeahhh, she should buy them." Then she starts talking to us all fast and in Spanish and I know we have that wide-eyed, looking around nervously but laughing because we don't know what the hell she's saying look. But she just keeps on going. We kind of pretend to know and just talk back to her anyway. Maybe she doesn't have many people who want to talk to her. We get some Starbucks and go back to her house. Oh yeah, and I bought a pair of pink wedges on sale. We sit around and watch an hour of America's Funniest Videos "10 Best Pranks Edition" and it was so worth it. Favorites were: the plastic carpet runners with pointy side flipped up to unsuspecting guests, the one where one friend put an iguana on the other friend who is deathly scared of iguanas and the fake lotto ticket montage (so mean, but so funny). We went to Banana Republic so Philip could get work clothes since my brother works there and gets a discount (kinda, not really). When we walked into Banana, I waved into the security cameras because my friend Marcia's boyfriend Isaiah works in the Loss Control Department. Of course it worked, so he came down and we talked for a little bit. No one was stealing anything that day so he was super bored and was probably so extremely happy that he ran into two of the most interesting people in the world. We ate Taco Bell at the mall and it was unsatisfactory because they forgot the guacamole that we ordered. Did anything interesting happen at The Galleria? Probably not, I can't remember. After that Philip took me home and he went to Nikko's house to eat and I got ready to go to Mo and Abbas's going away party at Boheme's. They are moving to Seattle where it's just as rainy as it is today I guess. The party was fun and I loved the atmosphere. Bet it's the bomb in the spring-time because their patios are really nice. Left early so I could meet up Philip at my place to go to Pearl Bar where Mile's was celebrating his birthday. So many people came out that night! I invited my neighbor Adam to come with us and he did. I think he had a good time. Kept trying to buy shots for everyone which was cool. Oh yeah, and at the end of the night me and Philip got into a bad fight says everyone else. Supposedly he said he was going to kill me and I said "Ok, I'm dead." I don't know if that's true, but that's what Nikko said. I still remember having fun at the end of the night at my place though. Alter egos are cool.
Sunday was Philip's cousin's engagement party. Ate a bunch of food, played with a bunch of kids, realized how delicious jalapenos were, played the hand-slap game, got owned and sweated a lot. Walked to the park and pushed kids on swings for what felt like forever and then tried to get on the monkey bars. Philip made fun of my armpits so I scared him when there was a wasp nearby. He ran away. I win. After the engagement party we drove out to Katy to party at Nikko's house. I stopped by Jolene and Matt's (and baby Joseph's) new house since they live like one neighborhood away. So weird that my old partner in crime is now settled down with a fiance (fye-ance says Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona), a kid, two dogs and a house in the suburbs. We popped some fireworks and drank a beer just for festivities sake. While Philip and I were standing the driveway Joseph bragged to us that his dad was so strong that he could smush him back into a baby. That's pretty strong. We convinced Matt, Jo and Joseph to come back with us to Nikko's to drink and party. We popped way more fireworks and firecrackers (those things get addicting) and played beer pong and flip cup. Joseph made Philip play Pokemon cards with him because Philip is king of Japanese loser boy games: Digimon, Pokemom, Yugigoh, Bloons TD4.
After that we all went to Baker Street in Katy and the waitress was a total B. (Dumb waitress was being rude cause she's a loser, probably a bad day, but that just means she sucks at her job. Her and jessica got into it because jessica asked for a pitcher and the girl got rude. Then jessica purposely said out loud while she was standing behind her that she shouldn't be sucky to us because other people sucked to her. Also, she got joseph's order wrong twice, and he was the only one to order anything, and rolled her eyes. Joseph's thing is what started it. Anyway, I go to close my tab cause it's about to be uh... Girlfight. I mediate a little, and while I'm talking to her she's rubbing my back like I'm friends with her cause I'm the one with the tab. Loser. I slap her in the face a couple of times and she pays for the tab. Perce! Went back to nikko's and I ate the whole bag of hot cheetoh's that I was mad at them for having cause I knew I was gonna kill it later, and the rest came back with whataburger.)
Monday. Philip and I ran some errands at the bank and grocery store and then went to his Tito Boy's house. He's not really a boy, he's a grown man. We ate a bunch of leftovers from the engagement party and then I got really, really sleepy. Philip laughed at his little cousin Kate after she tried to sit on a stool and almost fell out. She got mad and ran up to him with a fist (a fist grasping a pen) pretending to stab him and then she got in trouble so she balled up and hid her face in a pillow for what seemed like forever. Diego wanted me to race paper airplanes with him so I did. I never learned any airplane folding techniques as a child, so I just make them up and make them symmetrical. Usually mine just plummet and don't do anything cool. I challenged Philip and he made one and we raced them and and mine fluttered and plummeted while his glided for a SECOND (been doing this my whole life). Took Chris back to his house and then we went to Kroger again to buy groceries to make healthy dinners for the week. Kroger's twice in one day. We had rotisserie chicken and spinach with a side of The Book of Eli. I thought that movie sucked "ball hairs". (Thought the movie was fine, aka fioooooooonnnee)
Jess/(Philip)
So, on Thursday Philip came over around dinner time. (Haven't been seeing as much of each other since he started his job sooooo far away and lives at his brother's house soooooo far away.) Over the phone we planned on having Japanese food but Chris & Shara called and invited us to eat at Huynh's downtown which he said was BYOW. We're there. I was walking to the corner store to get two bottles when Philip pulled up to my house, so I made him walk with me. He was all disgruntled at the way I was holding the umbrella 'cause he was getting wet. I think people who are not holding the umbrella should have to keep up with the one holding it in order to make it work.
Huynh's was pretty good. Philip had the pho which I liked because it was heavy on the star anise (licorice flavor is what I like to call it). I had a charbroiled chicken rice plate which I thought tasted better at Pho Saigon. Two bottles of wine = not enough wine for 4 people. Shara didn't have to work the next day so we ended up going to her and Chris's house to have some bloody mary's. We woulda had some Sweet Tea, but it was a dummy bottle. Someone drank all of it and then refilled the bottle with soy sauce and water instead. So clever. Except my nose works so you can't fool me. Go ahead, insert big-nose-joke here. We played sing-star and I could only beat people when I harmonized with Philip and then we went to Glitter to continue the karaoking for a little bit.
On Friday Rex had a party at his house. He lives way out on the other side of the world too, so Philip just went there straight from his brother's house. I caught a ride with Chris and Shara and we decided to take 45 to the beltway which was THE WORST IDEA EVER. We were stuck in traffic for a straight hour because the feeder was completely flooded and cars were driving through the grass to come up onto the freeway. The whole time we were starving and we kept debating whether or not to exit and get some food. Texted Philip about what food was there and he said they ordered pizza which made my mouth water. When we got there I totally thought it was a pineapple pizza but it was grilled chicken. I'm pretty sure everyone got fooled by that too because statistically more people get pineapple pizza than chicken pizza, and that's a fact jack. Also, 48% of all statistics are made up. We played a lot of beer pong in Rex's garage with a million mosquitoes and million couches. His roommate is like the most useful roommate ever. He made a fan station to flow the A/C from inside the house to the garage and hooked up some speakers for music. But we didn't need either of those things to win the first 4 rounds of beer pong. Win! Win! Win! Philip thought he was such a funny guy that night. It was probably one of his career highs. My ride left me there at the end of the night so I had to beg Philip to give me a place to stay. Psych. More like the other way around.
Saturday. Philip, Bryan and Russell went to work out and left me and Marianne to do whatever we wanted. She took me around the northside and we went to The Container Store where Martha Stewart's biggest fans all work. That place makes you want to buy everything and makes you want to change your life. But man, every time you stopped to look at something a lady would walk up and have a story to tell you about why that thing is so awesome. It worked and I'm a sucker. I got talked into buying a thing that soaks up moisture in a room and collects it in a basin. What's embarrassing is that I talked it up like it was the best thing ever to Philip, hours after buying it. I'm pretty sure I'm returning everything that I bought from there. After that Marianne's like, "Wanna go to DSW to look at shoes?" Yesyesyesyesyeys. So many goodies so little money. Marianne was trying on these black heels and this old Mexican lady sitting near us was looking, so I gave her the thumbs up, like "yeahhh, she should buy them." Then she starts talking to us all fast and in Spanish and I know we have that wide-eyed, looking around nervously but laughing because we don't know what the hell she's saying look. But she just keeps on going. We kind of pretend to know and just talk back to her anyway. Maybe she doesn't have many people who want to talk to her. We get some Starbucks and go back to her house. Oh yeah, and I bought a pair of pink wedges on sale. We sit around and watch an hour of America's Funniest Videos "10 Best Pranks Edition" and it was so worth it. Favorites were: the plastic carpet runners with pointy side flipped up to unsuspecting guests, the one where one friend put an iguana on the other friend who is deathly scared of iguanas and the fake lotto ticket montage (so mean, but so funny). We went to Banana Republic so Philip could get work clothes since my brother works there and gets a discount (kinda, not really). When we walked into Banana, I waved into the security cameras because my friend Marcia's boyfriend Isaiah works in the Loss Control Department. Of course it worked, so he came down and we talked for a little bit. No one was stealing anything that day so he was super bored and was probably so extremely happy that he ran into two of the most interesting people in the world. We ate Taco Bell at the mall and it was unsatisfactory because they forgot the guacamole that we ordered. Did anything interesting happen at The Galleria? Probably not, I can't remember. After that Philip took me home and he went to Nikko's house to eat and I got ready to go to Mo and Abbas's going away party at Boheme's. They are moving to Seattle where it's just as rainy as it is today I guess. The party was fun and I loved the atmosphere. Bet it's the bomb in the spring-time because their patios are really nice. Left early so I could meet up Philip at my place to go to Pearl Bar where Mile's was celebrating his birthday. So many people came out that night! I invited my neighbor Adam to come with us and he did. I think he had a good time. Kept trying to buy shots for everyone which was cool. Oh yeah, and at the end of the night me and Philip got into a bad fight says everyone else. Supposedly he said he was going to kill me and I said "Ok, I'm dead." I don't know if that's true, but that's what Nikko said. I still remember having fun at the end of the night at my place though. Alter egos are cool.
Sunday was Philip's cousin's engagement party. Ate a bunch of food, played with a bunch of kids, realized how delicious jalapenos were, played the hand-slap game, got owned and sweated a lot. Walked to the park and pushed kids on swings for what felt like forever and then tried to get on the monkey bars. Philip made fun of my armpits so I scared him when there was a wasp nearby. He ran away. I win. After the engagement party we drove out to Katy to party at Nikko's house. I stopped by Jolene and Matt's (and baby Joseph's) new house since they live like one neighborhood away. So weird that my old partner in crime is now settled down with a fiance (fye-ance says Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona), a kid, two dogs and a house in the suburbs. We popped some fireworks and drank a beer just for festivities sake. While Philip and I were standing the driveway Joseph bragged to us that his dad was so strong that he could smush him back into a baby. That's pretty strong. We convinced Matt, Jo and Joseph to come back with us to Nikko's to drink and party. We popped way more fireworks and firecrackers (those things get addicting) and played beer pong and flip cup. Joseph made Philip play Pokemon cards with him because Philip is king of Japanese loser boy games: Digimon, Pokemom, Yugigoh, Bloons TD4.
After that we all went to Baker Street in Katy and the waitress was a total B. (Dumb waitress was being rude cause she's a loser, probably a bad day, but that just means she sucks at her job. Her and jessica got into it because jessica asked for a pitcher and the girl got rude. Then jessica purposely said out loud while she was standing behind her that she shouldn't be sucky to us because other people sucked to her. Also, she got joseph's order wrong twice, and he was the only one to order anything, and rolled her eyes. Joseph's thing is what started it. Anyway, I go to close my tab cause it's about to be uh... Girlfight. I mediate a little, and while I'm talking to her she's rubbing my back like I'm friends with her cause I'm the one with the tab. Loser. I slap her in the face a couple of times and she pays for the tab. Perce! Went back to nikko's and I ate the whole bag of hot cheetoh's that I was mad at them for having cause I knew I was gonna kill it later, and the rest came back with whataburger.)
Monday. Philip and I ran some errands at the bank and grocery store and then went to his Tito Boy's house. He's not really a boy, he's a grown man. We ate a bunch of leftovers from the engagement party and then I got really, really sleepy. Philip laughed at his little cousin Kate after she tried to sit on a stool and almost fell out. She got mad and ran up to him with a fist (a fist grasping a pen) pretending to stab him and then she got in trouble so she balled up and hid her face in a pillow for what seemed like forever. Diego wanted me to race paper airplanes with him so I did. I never learned any airplane folding techniques as a child, so I just make them up and make them symmetrical. Usually mine just plummet and don't do anything cool. I challenged Philip and he made one and we raced them and and mine fluttered and plummeted while his glided for a SECOND (been doing this my whole life). Took Chris back to his house and then we went to Kroger again to buy groceries to make healthy dinners for the week. Kroger's twice in one day. We had rotisserie chicken and spinach with a side of The Book of Eli. I thought that movie sucked "ball hairs". (Thought the movie was fine, aka fioooooooonnnee)
Jess/(Philip)
Friday, June 11, 2010
Jury Duty
Had jury duty yesterday. I told everyone that I got out at like 3 even though I got out at 9:30 baby. I didn't want to go to work, who would go back for my kind of job where there are no deadlines or anything?
I paid 7 bucks for parking, but you only get 6 bucks for the first day. I didn't even go get my parking discount with my sheet of paper cause i'm that baller.
I brought my brother's laptop, and I thought the charger or laptop was broken cause I plugged it in and nothing happened. Walked around the huge room to look for another outlet, and I knew everyone was staring at me with my cool one strap laptop bag. This one girl was using her loser macbook plugged into an outlet, so I figured if it doesn't work here then this stuff is broken. It worked, but right when I fixed the internet, he called my name to let me go home.
The cop that was controlling the microphone was good and kinda funny. The district clerk Loren Jackson was a really good public speaker with some good jokes.
In the beginning, the cop said that they start with 1001 and count up from there, so if you have a high number then something something something. I wasn't paying attention, but I had a high number and was like freak! Then later he said there was usually a cutoff number everyday, usually around 1800, that meant something something something. I wasn't paying attention again cause I was on the internet. Anyway, he starts calling people up, and they're all getting a piece of paper in the front and walking out of the room. I thought they were getting called into do whatever you have to do. I didn't think I was getting called anytime soon, so I just started typing out a blog entry.
Bam! Calls my name. I pack up the computer and charger, and then he's like, "Still waiting on Philp...Pa....gu..." He sees me walking up there and is like, "Is that you?" I nod my head. I take the paper, and he says thank you sir. The paper just says it's a work release form. I start walking out, and I ask some other lady walking with me, "Is that it? We can go home?" She just said, "Yup, thank God." I said, "Awesome."
I paid 7 bucks for parking, but you only get 6 bucks for the first day. I didn't even go get my parking discount with my sheet of paper cause i'm that baller.
I brought my brother's laptop, and I thought the charger or laptop was broken cause I plugged it in and nothing happened. Walked around the huge room to look for another outlet, and I knew everyone was staring at me with my cool one strap laptop bag. This one girl was using her loser macbook plugged into an outlet, so I figured if it doesn't work here then this stuff is broken. It worked, but right when I fixed the internet, he called my name to let me go home.
The cop that was controlling the microphone was good and kinda funny. The district clerk Loren Jackson was a really good public speaker with some good jokes.
In the beginning, the cop said that they start with 1001 and count up from there, so if you have a high number then something something something. I wasn't paying attention, but I had a high number and was like freak! Then later he said there was usually a cutoff number everyday, usually around 1800, that meant something something something. I wasn't paying attention again cause I was on the internet. Anyway, he starts calling people up, and they're all getting a piece of paper in the front and walking out of the room. I thought they were getting called into do whatever you have to do. I didn't think I was getting called anytime soon, so I just started typing out a blog entry.
Bam! Calls my name. I pack up the computer and charger, and then he's like, "Still waiting on Philp...Pa....gu..." He sees me walking up there and is like, "Is that you?" I nod my head. I take the paper, and he says thank you sir. The paper just says it's a work release form. I start walking out, and I ask some other lady walking with me, "Is that it? We can go home?" She just said, "Yup, thank God." I said, "Awesome."
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Interview
Just had my first real interview ever. Went pretty good. Lasted from 9 to 11, but all I did was talk to Tito Phil for like an hour, then he introduced me to a bunch of engineers. Then we went to HR to fill out some papers.
Met Jessica for lunch at Thai Cottage. Now I'm back at the doctor's office. Told them that I ate lunch with the interviewer cause then that woulda been a long interview.
I guess I'll let the blog know if I got it or not.
Met Jessica for lunch at Thai Cottage. Now I'm back at the doctor's office. Told them that I ate lunch with the interviewer cause then that woulda been a long interview.
I guess I'll let the blog know if I got it or not.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Random Stuff to Remember
Some jerk came into the office today and made my aunt cry cause she was looking for his chart or something, but she was busy doing other stuff too. Anyway, I really wanted to say something to him, but I didn't know if it was ok since a lot of these people have mental problems or something.
Getting a new phone because it's only 5 dollars to add a line to my brother's and Marianne's plan. I'd pay them back, but wouldn't it feel weird to get five bucks from me every month? What's weird is that I saw my family plan bill this morning sitting on a tray table, and I've never seen it before in my life even though I've had the same plan for the past like 7 years. Coincidences freak me out.
I think I have a really fast fight or flight mechanism cause I get freaked out easily, and it goes super hard on me. Remember when that roach was on my shirt in the Philippines at Boracay? Dudicles. I can feel it right now giving me goosebumps.
Might get my first real job from Tito Phil at FMC. HR lady called me just now to fill out some junk so I can get an interview. Scared, and I guess I'm starting to feel relieved. Never had a real interview before. I get noticeably sweaty on my forehead when I get nervous.
Getting new workstations in the office this week. Looks like Dell monitors, don't know about the computers though. Too bad I'll be leaving soon. I'm gonna have to train some girl that is gonna be dumb I bet. I wrote everything down that I do kinda step by step in the beginning, but then I learned a bunch of better stuff over the past 5 months. I guess she'll have to do the same thing and learn as she goes. I didn't even know what a deductible was before I started here, or what the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. Did you know Medicare's deductible is $155? Still doesn't seem like the people that come here with Medicare can afford the 155 bucks. Also, I never ask who's calling, and a lot of times they're asking for info on patients including SS#'s and phone numbers and junk like that. Just gave someone's phone number right now without asking who wanted it.
Gonna try to touch rim sometime this year. Jessica said that sounds gay. I said you sound gay.
Getting a new phone because it's only 5 dollars to add a line to my brother's and Marianne's plan. I'd pay them back, but wouldn't it feel weird to get five bucks from me every month? What's weird is that I saw my family plan bill this morning sitting on a tray table, and I've never seen it before in my life even though I've had the same plan for the past like 7 years. Coincidences freak me out.
I think I have a really fast fight or flight mechanism cause I get freaked out easily, and it goes super hard on me. Remember when that roach was on my shirt in the Philippines at Boracay? Dudicles. I can feel it right now giving me goosebumps.
Might get my first real job from Tito Phil at FMC. HR lady called me just now to fill out some junk so I can get an interview. Scared, and I guess I'm starting to feel relieved. Never had a real interview before. I get noticeably sweaty on my forehead when I get nervous.
Getting new workstations in the office this week. Looks like Dell monitors, don't know about the computers though. Too bad I'll be leaving soon. I'm gonna have to train some girl that is gonna be dumb I bet. I wrote everything down that I do kinda step by step in the beginning, but then I learned a bunch of better stuff over the past 5 months. I guess she'll have to do the same thing and learn as she goes. I didn't even know what a deductible was before I started here, or what the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. Did you know Medicare's deductible is $155? Still doesn't seem like the people that come here with Medicare can afford the 155 bucks. Also, I never ask who's calling, and a lot of times they're asking for info on patients including SS#'s and phone numbers and junk like that. Just gave someone's phone number right now without asking who wanted it.
Gonna try to touch rim sometime this year. Jessica said that sounds gay. I said you sound gay.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Hamstrings
Did the leg press Monday, and I found out how to work your hamstrings with it. Now mine are still sore, and it's Friday. Might be still sore cause I did my regular plyo on Wednesday. Two days a week still gives my body no days of being unsore, but it includes a pretty hard basketball game on Sundays.
Anyway, did some reading, and this is how I got super work on my hamstrings and some on my butt with the leg press.
- Put your feet up higher than normal on the foot plate.
- Point your toes like 45 degrees outwards from straight out.
- Slide the chair up as far as you can stretch. You can probably stretch further than you think when the weight is pushing on you.
- Push with your heels. I didn't think I could push with my heels cause I'm always pushing off my toes, but it's pretty easy if you concentrate on that.
- Let the weight come down as far as you can stretch.
The squat still sounds way better, but not brave enough to do them yet. Learning how to play a sport feels like the same thing as learning lifts. You want to look good and normal playing a sport, so it's the same way with lifting.
Anyway, did some reading, and this is how I got super work on my hamstrings and some on my butt with the leg press.
- Put your feet up higher than normal on the foot plate.
- Point your toes like 45 degrees outwards from straight out.
- Slide the chair up as far as you can stretch. You can probably stretch further than you think when the weight is pushing on you.
- Push with your heels. I didn't think I could push with my heels cause I'm always pushing off my toes, but it's pretty easy if you concentrate on that.
- Let the weight come down as far as you can stretch.
The squat still sounds way better, but not brave enough to do them yet. Learning how to play a sport feels like the same thing as learning lifts. You want to look good and normal playing a sport, so it's the same way with lifting.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Oldie but a Goodie
Pretty good email:
http://karlynmorissette.karlyn.me/2009/08/funniest-email-forward-ever/
More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
What makes observations that are so true so funny?
http://karlynmorissette.karlyn.me/2009/08/funniest-email-forward-ever/
More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
What makes observations that are so true so funny?
Monday, May 10, 2010
Weekend Recap
***Longest Weekend Recap in the Universe***
Key: Philip responds in blue. Jessica responds to Philip's post in red.
So the weekend kind of started on Thursday for me because it was the senior's graphic show. They're all graduating so they display all their work to try to get professionals to see it and maybe hire them. The show was at Winter Street Gallery. It's a good gallery, but the seniors last year did it there too, so next year we'll have to find a new gallery otherwise everyone would get tired of going to the same place 3 times in a row. Philip made me sad before we left for the show, but then it went away real quick. Just wanted to remember that. It's like movies, you want to feel stuff, so maybe this will trigger something one day. Drew and Miles came over, bought beer, played darts, ate chicken nuggets, went to the show. They had free beer and appetizers so it made things better for the boys, I'm sure. We went to the after party at 13 Celsius which is a wine bar downtown. It's a cool spot- I always drive by and want to go in, but I never do. It was fun because there were so many different groups of people there. My professors, my graphics buddies, Gerry, Philip and his friend Sam, my friends Miles, Chris and Kevin. Beer + Wine = weird hangover. (Kinda weak cause I knew I had work in the morning, so I was kinda boring.)
Friday started early too. I had to go to court to turn in my defensive driving stuff so I left work early to do so. Man, I go to that courthouse so much for driving stuff. By the way, they totally re-vamped the whole place. 32" LCD screens around the whole lobby, new glass windows, new flooring, etc. I wonder if our new lesbian mayor did that. Gay people have taste. I like the changes though, because the system is way more orderly than before. Got to the courthouse, parked my car and couldn't find my ID. Called Philip. It was in his wallet. Drove to his work to pick it up and then went back to court. (I knew she would forget about my google master title. She got to my work and needed to know where to get stuff notarized. Googled it. Your bank will do it for free, and UPS costs money.) There are always soooo many Mexican people who are in trouble! Seriously. They even have the Mexican ice cream cart guy outside of the court to cater to them on a daily basis.
Philip had a half day because that weekend would be Mother's Day. Weirdest reason for half-days ever. BUT he does work with all these ladies, so he reaps that benefit I guess. He bought roses for each lady there because I guess they're all moms. I can imagine him going up to each of them and handing out a rose. So cute/gay/nice. He gave me the leftover roses which he left in his car, which wilted from the heat. Still thought it was sweet. I'll take what I can get. (I guess I'll let the bag out of the cat. Tita Meng wrote down on a sticky note, "Buy 6 long stem roses for tomorrow." She walked up to me and said, "Mr. Philip, I have some extra curricular activity for you." She just showed it to me without saying anything, so no one would know, but even I didn't know. In my head, I was just like man what do I have to get roses for, but then I figured it was for all the ladies. Still, I was like why do I have to get roses cause I suck.)
I ended up with a half day too, since it took me forever to get all the court stuff done. Went to Oishii and ate. I did it big by ordering stuff NOT on the HH menu, (which I hate - Philip). I'm rich 'cause of my fat tax return. I keep saying that and acting on it, going to be so poor so soon. Tried to take a nap after that, but instead gave Philip a Chinese lesson on how to say: 1. What? 2. Still a long time 3. I remember my first beer. He picks up on things I'm saying on the phone to my mom and he makes me repeat them and teach him. So far he can say the above mentioned and "That thing, so scary." and "Yes." (I'm pretty sure we did nap for at least an hour, oh yeah we did cause I was saying now I'm gonna remember how to say these things cause you learn when you sleep.)
Went to the Tavern for Pattie's boyfriend Thi's surprise birthday thing. Met some old friends up there. Viraj, this Indian guy who talks black, likes to rap and plays ping pong. (Viraj is the guy who got Thi to go to the Tavern by saying that he got a flat tire near by and needed a jack. I asked Thi if he was mad cause Viraj called him to help him out, and he was just like I was trying to use the excuse that my jack might not fit your car cause I have a BMW, and we made fun of him for that.) Viet, who used to date my friend Tracy and has a circle tattoo of a sun around his belly button.
(So, that whole group was going to House of Blues, which had a special room where we didn't have to dress up. Jessica, what was it called? (The Foundation Room.) Anyway, we went back to Jessica's so she could change, and I find out Sam's at Union with some other people. We stop by there cause it's really close to Jessica's, but we end up staying there the rest of the night, and we see so many other people each of us know small world like. They're all not there together too, which was weird cause it was pretty empty there too. Casey, Stephanie, Geoff, Sam, Ian, Irene's cousin.) (And also Huy, who drunk-chatted up Philip about some spartan tv show.)
Oh man. I gotta go downtown for work stuff. Philip, please finish this. Thanks.
Jess
Added some stuff, but leaving work now. Maybe I'll finish when I get to your place.
Philip
Ok, I, Philip, am doing Saturday:
Woke up too early like at 8 something. Stayed in bed until 12 something cause Jessica had an appointment with her personal trainer for her one free session. Finally went back to sleep for about 45 minutes, and she gets back and tells me it was sucky cause she didn't get any pointers on getting a good butt. Actually it's cause he just put her in a corner and made her do some medicine ball and body weight stuff. That gym is gay cause both guys that work there and helped her keep hitting on her. (Don't know what's happening. I'm friendly with them like I'm friendly with homeless people or people who work at Kroger.) She just got a text from the trainer guy about getting coffee (Not true. He said " be glad to lift with you, it's on me!" No coffee was involved.), and that other guy asked her if I was just her friend and said he'd give me a one week free pass if she wanted, and he said he'd show her how to use the machines. That's what they call it now. I had a plan for Saturday to get my oil changed, eat at Tornado, and then get something for my mom for Mother's Day. Only did none of those cause we didn't get out of bed till 2, and then I couldn't find the thing I wanted to get at the store for my mom, so I just ordered it from the internet. It's some dumb aromatherapy body patch to help with itch relief cause my mom has had allergies for like two months straight. Went to church at 5 with my parents. Met up Chris and Nikko at Chris' house while Jessica was eating with her parents. Tito Monching was there hiding to surprise Tita Tess for Mother's Day cause he wasn't supposed to get back into town for another week. We all went to dinner at Beaver's, a barbecue place, with Bryan and Marianne. Pretty good and expensive, but rich Tito Monching paid for everyone. Tough guy.
We all go back to Chris' and play Monopoly. I win. We decide to go to Pearl Bar for someone's birthday. Me and Jessica go back to Jessica's to change, and I invite Sam and Monalisa. Sam says ok, then I guess he found out last minute it was his dad's birthday and said he couldn't come. What a good son. Mona says ok, and she said she'd be there before 11:30 cause that's when we're trying to leave. Me and Jessica play darts until 12, and Mona hasn't even left cause of all these excuses. She's gassy, can't find anything to wear, and is arguing with her boyfriend. We meet everyone at The Lot right next door to Pearl, and they're playing the video photo hunt thingy. Peace, Bad Robot. Hello, Good Robot. He had the high score, now we do. Mona meets us, and then my brother and Marianne leave cause they hate her. Actually it's just cause they're tired and married. We randomly see people we know separately but are together small world like again. I see people from my basketball league who's game the next day is at 2PM, and they're having all the fun. Nikko drank too fast, again. He has his head down on the back rest of another chair towards the end. We split up and get Jessica's car from the valet. We get it, and the truck in front of us backs up into Jessica's car. Not bad, couldn't tell cause I was kinda drunk. I just told the valet guys to remember us next time cause that was super sucky. Jessica drives Mona's car, and I drive Jessica's to Jessica's house. ( I liked this part, cause Mona asked Philip if she should trust my driving and he said, "Yeah, she's the best." - or something to that degree. He will deny this and say he doesn't remember.) Us three hang out while she tries to sober up to drive home. It's like 4, and I have my game at 10AM. (By hanging out, he means he turned on the TV, which I HATE for "after-parties". I'd rather talk about my ideals.)
Sunday:
I wake up at 9 to get ready for my game. Jessica usually comes to every game, but this time she sucks and can't get up. I get a text from Jason that sounds all scared, "Where are y'all at?!" I don't text back cause I'm 10 minutes away, plus you think I got unlimited texts or something? Like a minute before the games starts we only have four when a fifth shows up. I'm thinking, awesome, I'm gonna be playing 40 minutes son. We end up winning by 17, and I made 7 baskets with an and 1. Jessica missed it. I always tell her that if she doesn't come then she might miss something awesome, which she did. (Maybe Philip should just do awesome stuff more often and I would never miss it, because i'm there like 99% of the time.) It was an and 1 dunk, then I dunked the free throw. Guess working out during the week works cause I didn't get that tired either from playing all 40 minutes. What was good about losing our first 5 games was that you don't have to keep the stats and run the clock for the next game. I volunteered to do it this time cause Jessica wasn't waiting. I only got yelled at once by this lady watching for not starting the clock on time. One team was up by 10 the whole time, and the other court was a close game. I was like man good thing this isn't a close game where I have to pay attention to the clock and the number of fouls and junk. Boom with 3 minutes left, the team that was down scored 7 points in 30 seconds. Anyway, left, without payin' and didn't say a word to anyone!
Went home so I could go with my parents to Three Olives where the family brunch was happening. Jessica went to her family barbecue at her parents' house. Three Olives is an Italian place in Katy that's not that good. Saw everyone, and Tito Monching surprised Tita Tess there. At brunch I heard that Nikko threw up on the way to the sink at Chris' house. I also heard that Chris' dad may have stepped in it in the morning. Brunch ended, and everyone went to the hospital to visit Tita Claire cause she might have had a very mild stroke. Can't fit 40 people in a hospital room. She probably coulda nursed herself at home. Went home and took a nap. Jessica picked me up, and we went to Swirl across from Baker St. There was this Caucasian/Italian/Jewish/just loser American lady there... (So Philip and I totally overheard this lady [overheard is an understatement 'cause she was saying it to her husband across the store,] talking about the taro flavored yogurt. She was like, "Ugh! Did you see this flavor? Taro? What IS IT? I tried it and it is SO disgusting. Why would anyone in their right mind choose that? YUCK!" Philip whispers to me, "I'm a little offended." So was I. It was like those feelings you get when you were younger and anything that to do with race got you a little bent out of shape.)
philip: do you want to talk about taro?
I went home and put the groceries up. Took in all the plastic bags at one time looped all heavy on my forearms- because everyone knows you'd rather make one heavy trip versus 3 trips. Updated my graphics blog.
Key: Philip responds in blue. Jessica responds to Philip's post in red.
So the weekend kind of started on Thursday for me because it was the senior's graphic show. They're all graduating so they display all their work to try to get professionals to see it and maybe hire them. The show was at Winter Street Gallery. It's a good gallery, but the seniors last year did it there too, so next year we'll have to find a new gallery otherwise everyone would get tired of going to the same place 3 times in a row. Philip made me sad before we left for the show, but then it went away real quick. Just wanted to remember that. It's like movies, you want to feel stuff, so maybe this will trigger something one day. Drew and Miles came over, bought beer, played darts, ate chicken nuggets, went to the show. They had free beer and appetizers so it made things better for the boys, I'm sure. We went to the after party at 13 Celsius which is a wine bar downtown. It's a cool spot- I always drive by and want to go in, but I never do. It was fun because there were so many different groups of people there. My professors, my graphics buddies, Gerry, Philip and his friend Sam, my friends Miles, Chris and Kevin. Beer + Wine = weird hangover. (Kinda weak cause I knew I had work in the morning, so I was kinda boring.)
Friday started early too. I had to go to court to turn in my defensive driving stuff so I left work early to do so. Man, I go to that courthouse so much for driving stuff. By the way, they totally re-vamped the whole place. 32" LCD screens around the whole lobby, new glass windows, new flooring, etc. I wonder if our new lesbian mayor did that. Gay people have taste. I like the changes though, because the system is way more orderly than before. Got to the courthouse, parked my car and couldn't find my ID. Called Philip. It was in his wallet. Drove to his work to pick it up and then went back to court. (I knew she would forget about my google master title. She got to my work and needed to know where to get stuff notarized. Googled it. Your bank will do it for free, and UPS costs money.) There are always soooo many Mexican people who are in trouble! Seriously. They even have the Mexican ice cream cart guy outside of the court to cater to them on a daily basis.
Philip had a half day because that weekend would be Mother's Day. Weirdest reason for half-days ever. BUT he does work with all these ladies, so he reaps that benefit I guess. He bought roses for each lady there because I guess they're all moms. I can imagine him going up to each of them and handing out a rose. So cute/gay/nice. He gave me the leftover roses which he left in his car, which wilted from the heat. Still thought it was sweet. I'll take what I can get. (I guess I'll let the bag out of the cat. Tita Meng wrote down on a sticky note, "Buy 6 long stem roses for tomorrow." She walked up to me and said, "Mr. Philip, I have some extra curricular activity for you." She just showed it to me without saying anything, so no one would know, but even I didn't know. In my head, I was just like man what do I have to get roses for, but then I figured it was for all the ladies. Still, I was like why do I have to get roses cause I suck.)
I ended up with a half day too, since it took me forever to get all the court stuff done. Went to Oishii and ate. I did it big by ordering stuff NOT on the HH menu, (which I hate - Philip). I'm rich 'cause of my fat tax return. I keep saying that and acting on it, going to be so poor so soon. Tried to take a nap after that, but instead gave Philip a Chinese lesson on how to say: 1. What? 2. Still a long time 3. I remember my first beer. He picks up on things I'm saying on the phone to my mom and he makes me repeat them and teach him. So far he can say the above mentioned and "That thing, so scary." and "Yes." (I'm pretty sure we did nap for at least an hour, oh yeah we did cause I was saying now I'm gonna remember how to say these things cause you learn when you sleep.)
Went to the Tavern for Pattie's boyfriend Thi's surprise birthday thing. Met some old friends up there. Viraj, this Indian guy who talks black, likes to rap and plays ping pong. (Viraj is the guy who got Thi to go to the Tavern by saying that he got a flat tire near by and needed a jack. I asked Thi if he was mad cause Viraj called him to help him out, and he was just like I was trying to use the excuse that my jack might not fit your car cause I have a BMW, and we made fun of him for that.) Viet, who used to date my friend Tracy and has a circle tattoo of a sun around his belly button.
(So, that whole group was going to House of Blues, which had a special room where we didn't have to dress up. Jessica, what was it called? (The Foundation Room.) Anyway, we went back to Jessica's so she could change, and I find out Sam's at Union with some other people. We stop by there cause it's really close to Jessica's, but we end up staying there the rest of the night, and we see so many other people each of us know small world like. They're all not there together too, which was weird cause it was pretty empty there too. Casey, Stephanie, Geoff, Sam, Ian, Irene's cousin.) (And also Huy, who drunk-chatted up Philip about some spartan tv show.)
Oh man. I gotta go downtown for work stuff. Philip, please finish this. Thanks.
Jess
Added some stuff, but leaving work now. Maybe I'll finish when I get to your place.
Philip
Ok, I, Philip, am doing Saturday:
Woke up too early like at 8 something. Stayed in bed until 12 something cause Jessica had an appointment with her personal trainer for her one free session. Finally went back to sleep for about 45 minutes, and she gets back and tells me it was sucky cause she didn't get any pointers on getting a good butt. Actually it's cause he just put her in a corner and made her do some medicine ball and body weight stuff. That gym is gay cause both guys that work there and helped her keep hitting on her. (Don't know what's happening. I'm friendly with them like I'm friendly with homeless people or people who work at Kroger.) She just got a text from the trainer guy about getting coffee (Not true. He said " be glad to lift with you, it's on me!" No coffee was involved.), and that other guy asked her if I was just her friend and said he'd give me a one week free pass if she wanted, and he said he'd show her how to use the machines. That's what they call it now. I had a plan for Saturday to get my oil changed, eat at Tornado, and then get something for my mom for Mother's Day. Only did none of those cause we didn't get out of bed till 2, and then I couldn't find the thing I wanted to get at the store for my mom, so I just ordered it from the internet. It's some dumb aromatherapy body patch to help with itch relief cause my mom has had allergies for like two months straight. Went to church at 5 with my parents. Met up Chris and Nikko at Chris' house while Jessica was eating with her parents. Tito Monching was there hiding to surprise Tita Tess for Mother's Day cause he wasn't supposed to get back into town for another week. We all went to dinner at Beaver's, a barbecue place, with Bryan and Marianne. Pretty good and expensive, but rich Tito Monching paid for everyone. Tough guy.
We all go back to Chris' and play Monopoly. I win. We decide to go to Pearl Bar for someone's birthday. Me and Jessica go back to Jessica's to change, and I invite Sam and Monalisa. Sam says ok, then I guess he found out last minute it was his dad's birthday and said he couldn't come. What a good son. Mona says ok, and she said she'd be there before 11:30 cause that's when we're trying to leave. Me and Jessica play darts until 12, and Mona hasn't even left cause of all these excuses. She's gassy, can't find anything to wear, and is arguing with her boyfriend. We meet everyone at The Lot right next door to Pearl, and they're playing the video photo hunt thingy. Peace, Bad Robot. Hello, Good Robot. He had the high score, now we do. Mona meets us, and then my brother and Marianne leave cause they hate her. Actually it's just cause they're tired and married. We randomly see people we know separately but are together small world like again. I see people from my basketball league who's game the next day is at 2PM, and they're having all the fun. Nikko drank too fast, again. He has his head down on the back rest of another chair towards the end. We split up and get Jessica's car from the valet. We get it, and the truck in front of us backs up into Jessica's car. Not bad, couldn't tell cause I was kinda drunk. I just told the valet guys to remember us next time cause that was super sucky. Jessica drives Mona's car, and I drive Jessica's to Jessica's house. ( I liked this part, cause Mona asked Philip if she should trust my driving and he said, "Yeah, she's the best." - or something to that degree. He will deny this and say he doesn't remember.) Us three hang out while she tries to sober up to drive home. It's like 4, and I have my game at 10AM. (By hanging out, he means he turned on the TV, which I HATE for "after-parties". I'd rather talk about my ideals.)
Sunday:
I wake up at 9 to get ready for my game. Jessica usually comes to every game, but this time she sucks and can't get up. I get a text from Jason that sounds all scared, "Where are y'all at?!" I don't text back cause I'm 10 minutes away, plus you think I got unlimited texts or something? Like a minute before the games starts we only have four when a fifth shows up. I'm thinking, awesome, I'm gonna be playing 40 minutes son. We end up winning by 17, and I made 7 baskets with an and 1. Jessica missed it. I always tell her that if she doesn't come then she might miss something awesome, which she did. (Maybe Philip should just do awesome stuff more often and I would never miss it, because i'm there like 99% of the time.) It was an and 1 dunk, then I dunked the free throw. Guess working out during the week works cause I didn't get that tired either from playing all 40 minutes. What was good about losing our first 5 games was that you don't have to keep the stats and run the clock for the next game. I volunteered to do it this time cause Jessica wasn't waiting. I only got yelled at once by this lady watching for not starting the clock on time. One team was up by 10 the whole time, and the other court was a close game. I was like man good thing this isn't a close game where I have to pay attention to the clock and the number of fouls and junk. Boom with 3 minutes left, the team that was down scored 7 points in 30 seconds. Anyway, left, without payin' and didn't say a word to anyone!
Went home so I could go with my parents to Three Olives where the family brunch was happening. Jessica went to her family barbecue at her parents' house. Three Olives is an Italian place in Katy that's not that good. Saw everyone, and Tito Monching surprised Tita Tess there. At brunch I heard that Nikko threw up on the way to the sink at Chris' house. I also heard that Chris' dad may have stepped in it in the morning. Brunch ended, and everyone went to the hospital to visit Tita Claire cause she might have had a very mild stroke. Can't fit 40 people in a hospital room. She probably coulda nursed herself at home. Went home and took a nap. Jessica picked me up, and we went to Swirl across from Baker St. There was this Caucasian/Italian/Jewish/just loser American lady there... (So Philip and I totally overheard this lady [overheard is an understatement 'cause she was saying it to her husband across the store,] talking about the taro flavored yogurt. She was like, "Ugh! Did you see this flavor? Taro? What IS IT? I tried it and it is SO disgusting. Why would anyone in their right mind choose that? YUCK!" Philip whispers to me, "I'm a little offended." So was I. It was like those feelings you get when you were younger and anything that to do with race got you a little bent out of shape.)
philip: do you want to talk about taro?
jessicamtsao: yes
hard
philip: ok
say that even i felt a little offended
jessicamtsao: yeah duh
both
felt it
cause we're asian. and they're talking about our freaking roots
pun
Went to Baker St. to play pool and darts, but it was freezing like always in that corner. Went to Slick's cause in Midtown the Slick's there has unlimited pool for 5 bucks on Sundays and Wednesdays. This one only had it on Wednesdays. We played for an hour, which was like 5 games, and it was 13 dollars. I hate that place. Then we got sad cause we thought we were getting boring cause we couldn't think of anything else to do cause I couldn't come over and watch movies. We went to Randall's to get groceries for the rest of the week and be healthy. The Randall's card just makes the prices go down to other cheaper stores' prices. (I used to go to that Randall's a lot when I was younger. Nostalgic. The meat department lady talked to us for a little bit about Asian moms versus Mexican moms 'cause it was mother's day. I like talking to strangers. I think Philip does too. But he has a hard time talking to people he already knows. Like the stop-and-chat with acquaintances type thing.)I went home and put the groceries up. Took in all the plastic bags at one time looped all heavy on my forearms- because everyone knows you'd rather make one heavy trip versus 3 trips. Updated my graphics blog.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Look Up: Muscles
Are you still building muscle if you're not sore?
http://www.shapefit.com/muscle-soreness-results.html
http://www.intense-workout.com/muscle_soreness.html
Both say pretty much the same thing. Using soreness as a sign for your workout being a good one or not is wrong. When your body adapts to the movements of the exercises, you'll start getting less sore, but that doesn't mean they'll be less effective.
Jessica started her membership at this fancy schmancy place in midtown cause it was a cheap special, and I went with her. She wants to make her butt bigger, so I looked up some stuff.
How to work your butt using squats.
http://www.nowloss.com/How-to-do-squats-for-a-bigger-butt.htm
The site looks dumb, but it says most of the stuff that I've read from sites I trust.
http://www.shapefit.com/muscle-soreness-results.html
http://www.intense-workout.com/muscle_soreness.html
Both say pretty much the same thing. Using soreness as a sign for your workout being a good one or not is wrong. When your body adapts to the movements of the exercises, you'll start getting less sore, but that doesn't mean they'll be less effective.
Jessica started her membership at this fancy schmancy place in midtown cause it was a cheap special, and I went with her. She wants to make her butt bigger, so I looked up some stuff.
How to work your butt using squats.
http://www.nowloss.com/How-to-do-squats-for-a-bigger-butt.htm
The site looks dumb, but it says most of the stuff that I've read from sites I trust.
7 things you must do to get a bigger butt doing squats
- Place the bar on your upper middle back and hold it with a wide grip...
- Place your feet wider than shoulder width...
- Point your toes out at a 45 degree angle...
- Keep your head up & Look straight ahead...
- Squat down as deep as you can is most important - the deeper the better...
- Push back up thru your heels to activate your butt muscles and...
- Bonus tip: Pause for 2-to-5 seconds at the bottom to better activate your butt muscles
Monday, May 3, 2010
Weekend Recap
Gonna start recapping my weekends so I can remember what I was doing 10 years from now. Maybe I'll recap the whole week as a brain training thing.
Nevermind. It was even too boring for me to type out stuff from the whole week, plus it's hard to remember nothingness.
Friday:
After work I went over to Jessica's, and I knew she'd be super excited to have just finished the semester the day before. We went to Rudyard's to play some pool to start off the night, and I had the best game of my life by breaking and making 7 balls in a row. Then we pick up Monalisa at her apartment pretty close to Rice University because we went to Valhalla's, which is a bar on the Rice campus. We were going there cause one of Jessica's good friends came back to visit from Columbia. They have 95 cent 12 ounce cups of beer with other ones being $1.45 and up. Then for some reason we went to Boondocks. We don't know why we keep going there, I guess it's like a default place to go when we don't feel like thinking. Met up some people and had a lot of fun, but I had a little trouble the next day. Oh yeah, almost forgot that we went to Jack in the Box before going home, and I ordered 2 dollar menu burgers and two tacos, then I ordered one or two more dollar menu burgers. I guess I ate it all cause when I got up the next day all the bags were empty.
Saturday:
Woke up at 8:10AM for no reason and felt super not awesome, and I couldn't even go back to sleep. We were supposed to go to watch Chris, Shara, and Bryan do their dragon boat thing at some place downtown at 11. We get there at 11:15 cause we had a little trouble finding a parking spot. We didn't pay the four dollars cause we didn't think they'd check if we weren't gonna stay that long anyway. We see their second race of the day, and they win, and it looks pretty fun. Me and Jessica walk around and see people we know and try to look at booths, but they suck. We get some popsicles, which I dominated her at by getting the original bomb pop, and she gets the watermelon bomb pop. We leave to go to the Galleria because I want to get some brown shoes to wear with khakis cause I need some, and cause we're going to her gay friend's birthday party and she says it might be fancy. We eat mall food, and I don't want to pay for some shoes that we like. We go to Urban, and I remember I need some jeans cause all of mine are getting holes. I just want to get some levi's, but then I see they're 55 bucks, and I just decide to get them anyway. When the guy rings them up they're actually 29.99. Sold. I go to church with my parents, and we eat at the Pho place close to Chris' parents' house cause that's where everyone's gonna watch the Mayweather Mosley fight. I leave chris' parents' house early to meet up Jessica to go to her friend's party. It's super gay, not in the bad way just in the gay way. A bunch of gay a lesbian people talking and dancing on the roof of a pretty nice apartment building downtown. I know I have a 9AM game the next morning, so I don't drink that much, which wasn't that big of a deal cause gay people are pretty outgoing and make you feel comfortable anyway. They have a crazy gay neighbor, but I would rather have Jessica talk about him. He was the star of the night, and there was bout be a... girl fight cause some lesbian's girlfriend got all up on some straight girl and the girlfriend got mad. Everyone starts leaving cause of this and I see one of our friends stealing a bunch of bottles, so I grabbed a box of Breath Rx gum off of a table.
Sunday Funday:
Usually Jessica has super homework to do on Sundays, but since she was done we tried to take advantage of the whooooooole day. Since my game was at nine we got an early start. I get there on time, surprisingly, because I hardly ever do even to later games. We only were gonna have 7, so I knew I was getting a lot of minutes, but then we find out they're only gonna have four. We ran train on dem boyz like those Yates kids do. We scored 122 points, but they scored like 50 something. I don't know how they got so many. Jessica wants to go back home and sleep, but then I say let's not waste the day. She keeps talking about going to boiling crab to eat crawfish, so I say ok let's go to Fry's to look at tv's until lunchtime. Also, I want to see if I can buy a shirt cause all I have is a tank top since I just finished the basketball game, and I don't want to be those guys that wear those cause they think they're all swolled up and junk. It's kinda ok if you're super skinny cause then people know you're not trying to do that. I also think it's ok if my shirt is all sweaty and I keep my basketball shoes and shorts on cause then it'll look like I just came from a game. Don't hate. It's not bad to not want to look like a loser. We look at tv's and there's this one for like 3000 dollars, and it looks super duper awesome with avatar playing on it. Oh dang, and there's ps3's there for like 230 bucks. We have a little more time to burn before lunchtime, so we try to go to Saks Off 5th, but they don't open till 12. We go to DSW Shoes and Barnes and Noble and Target before Boiling Crab. I get some loser Steve Madden's and some Haynes t-shirts, and she gets coffee, slippers, and the worst book ever. We get to Boiling crab and the wait is at least an hour says the girl. We walk over to Lee's Sandwiches cause I'm starving. We get back, and the wait was fake cause now I have to scarf down my sandwich cause we have a table. Wendy and Juan come, and I get fried seafood cause I love it and I don't love crawfish. I guess it's like going to Tornado Burger and not getting a spicy anything or a gyro. We go home and take a nap before waking up and trying to find a reverse happy hour. We go to Also Known As sushi, also known as Aka. It's expensive, and then we go to Rudyard's to play some pool and darts and shuffleboard. Jessica gets her two friends from her classes to come cause school's done. She freaking beats me twice at darts, straight up regular rules, in order and everything. It ends up being like 1:45 or something when we leave. I fall asleep at her place, and that's called taking advantage of a whole day.
Nevermind. It was even too boring for me to type out stuff from the whole week, plus it's hard to remember nothingness.
Friday:
After work I went over to Jessica's, and I knew she'd be super excited to have just finished the semester the day before. We went to Rudyard's to play some pool to start off the night, and I had the best game of my life by breaking and making 7 balls in a row. Then we pick up Monalisa at her apartment pretty close to Rice University because we went to Valhalla's, which is a bar on the Rice campus. We were going there cause one of Jessica's good friends came back to visit from Columbia. They have 95 cent 12 ounce cups of beer with other ones being $1.45 and up. Then for some reason we went to Boondocks. We don't know why we keep going there, I guess it's like a default place to go when we don't feel like thinking. Met up some people and had a lot of fun, but I had a little trouble the next day. Oh yeah, almost forgot that we went to Jack in the Box before going home, and I ordered 2 dollar menu burgers and two tacos, then I ordered one or two more dollar menu burgers. I guess I ate it all cause when I got up the next day all the bags were empty.
Saturday:
Woke up at 8:10AM for no reason and felt super not awesome, and I couldn't even go back to sleep. We were supposed to go to watch Chris, Shara, and Bryan do their dragon boat thing at some place downtown at 11. We get there at 11:15 cause we had a little trouble finding a parking spot. We didn't pay the four dollars cause we didn't think they'd check if we weren't gonna stay that long anyway. We see their second race of the day, and they win, and it looks pretty fun. Me and Jessica walk around and see people we know and try to look at booths, but they suck. We get some popsicles, which I dominated her at by getting the original bomb pop, and she gets the watermelon bomb pop. We leave to go to the Galleria because I want to get some brown shoes to wear with khakis cause I need some, and cause we're going to her gay friend's birthday party and she says it might be fancy. We eat mall food, and I don't want to pay for some shoes that we like. We go to Urban, and I remember I need some jeans cause all of mine are getting holes. I just want to get some levi's, but then I see they're 55 bucks, and I just decide to get them anyway. When the guy rings them up they're actually 29.99. Sold. I go to church with my parents, and we eat at the Pho place close to Chris' parents' house cause that's where everyone's gonna watch the Mayweather Mosley fight. I leave chris' parents' house early to meet up Jessica to go to her friend's party. It's super gay, not in the bad way just in the gay way. A bunch of gay a lesbian people talking and dancing on the roof of a pretty nice apartment building downtown. I know I have a 9AM game the next morning, so I don't drink that much, which wasn't that big of a deal cause gay people are pretty outgoing and make you feel comfortable anyway. They have a crazy gay neighbor, but I would rather have Jessica talk about him. He was the star of the night, and there was bout be a... girl fight cause some lesbian's girlfriend got all up on some straight girl and the girlfriend got mad. Everyone starts leaving cause of this and I see one of our friends stealing a bunch of bottles, so I grabbed a box of Breath Rx gum off of a table.
Sunday Funday:
Usually Jessica has super homework to do on Sundays, but since she was done we tried to take advantage of the whooooooole day. Since my game was at nine we got an early start. I get there on time, surprisingly, because I hardly ever do even to later games. We only were gonna have 7, so I knew I was getting a lot of minutes, but then we find out they're only gonna have four. We ran train on dem boyz like those Yates kids do. We scored 122 points, but they scored like 50 something. I don't know how they got so many. Jessica wants to go back home and sleep, but then I say let's not waste the day. She keeps talking about going to boiling crab to eat crawfish, so I say ok let's go to Fry's to look at tv's until lunchtime. Also, I want to see if I can buy a shirt cause all I have is a tank top since I just finished the basketball game, and I don't want to be those guys that wear those cause they think they're all swolled up and junk. It's kinda ok if you're super skinny cause then people know you're not trying to do that. I also think it's ok if my shirt is all sweaty and I keep my basketball shoes and shorts on cause then it'll look like I just came from a game. Don't hate. It's not bad to not want to look like a loser. We look at tv's and there's this one for like 3000 dollars, and it looks super duper awesome with avatar playing on it. Oh dang, and there's ps3's there for like 230 bucks. We have a little more time to burn before lunchtime, so we try to go to Saks Off 5th, but they don't open till 12. We go to DSW Shoes and Barnes and Noble and Target before Boiling Crab. I get some loser Steve Madden's and some Haynes t-shirts, and she gets coffee, slippers, and the worst book ever. We get to Boiling crab and the wait is at least an hour says the girl. We walk over to Lee's Sandwiches cause I'm starving. We get back, and the wait was fake cause now I have to scarf down my sandwich cause we have a table. Wendy and Juan come, and I get fried seafood cause I love it and I don't love crawfish. I guess it's like going to Tornado Burger and not getting a spicy anything or a gyro. We go home and take a nap before waking up and trying to find a reverse happy hour. We go to Also Known As sushi, also known as Aka. It's expensive, and then we go to Rudyard's to play some pool and darts and shuffleboard. Jessica gets her two friends from her classes to come cause school's done. She freaking beats me twice at darts, straight up regular rules, in order and everything. It ends up being like 1:45 or something when we leave. I fall asleep at her place, and that's called taking advantage of a whole day.
Friday, April 30, 2010
First Full Week
Finally finished a full week of the routine I made up a couple of weeks ago. Gets hard cause things always come up after work. Anyway, I made this up from reading a bunch of stuff online, mostly from bodyrecomposition.com.
Most of it has to do with trying to not get fat and getting in shape for basketball games on sundays. I've been trying to look for anything that'd be better than cardio cause it sucks.
Mondays:
Heavy lifting full body - kinda hard cause I'm usually ridiculously tired from the weekend, but gotta do it farthest away from the next game.
Tuesdays:
Plyometrics - circuits of line jumps from side to side, depth jumps, wall jumps. Makes me super duper exhausted the rest of the night.
Wednesdays:
Metabolic weight training - just circuit through everything I do on Mondays. Funner than cardio, but kinda like the same thing, I hope. End with a few rounds of HIIT.
Thursdays:
Cardio - run/jog as long as I can. Yesterday was my first day, and I went for like 25 minutes straight. I kept wanting to stop cause it was boring and I was getting tired, but it's so easy just to keep going if your mind goes somewhere else. I figured out my hives were from running outside in the super wind cause I started to feel them coming, so I took some benadryl right quick and stopped them from coming.
Now I have two full days to rest before the game on Sunday morning. It's bad enough that I spend all night on Saturday drinking, so I figure that I can't be sore also. Doesn't work anyway cause the drinking thing has way more impact than being sore.
Most of it has to do with trying to not get fat and getting in shape for basketball games on sundays. I've been trying to look for anything that'd be better than cardio cause it sucks.
Mondays:
Heavy lifting full body - kinda hard cause I'm usually ridiculously tired from the weekend, but gotta do it farthest away from the next game.
Tuesdays:
Plyometrics - circuits of line jumps from side to side, depth jumps, wall jumps. Makes me super duper exhausted the rest of the night.
Wednesdays:
Metabolic weight training - just circuit through everything I do on Mondays. Funner than cardio, but kinda like the same thing, I hope. End with a few rounds of HIIT.
Thursdays:
Cardio - run/jog as long as I can. Yesterday was my first day, and I went for like 25 minutes straight. I kept wanting to stop cause it was boring and I was getting tired, but it's so easy just to keep going if your mind goes somewhere else. I figured out my hives were from running outside in the super wind cause I started to feel them coming, so I took some benadryl right quick and stopped them from coming.
Now I have two full days to rest before the game on Sunday morning. It's bad enough that I spend all night on Saturday drinking, so I figure that I can't be sore also. Doesn't work anyway cause the drinking thing has way more impact than being sore.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Walmart People
I always forget about looking at these when I'm bored, but today I didn't.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?page_id=9798&paged=3
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?page_id=9798&paged=3
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