Saulemander

update on my life 
02 December 2009, 12:31am

abstracts are dumb...whats the point of the title?

anyway. my life and an update on it. once again, another disclaimer, i dont proofread or spell check...the dink can do this if he truly wants to. so if i remember correctly the last time i posted anything of true value for avalopes to read was 3 months ago right before or right after i started my internship at frog. well a lot has changed in the past 3 months and i thought i would share.

i've lost 20 lbs and shaved off my goatee. that's not to say im clean shaven, i still shave (err trim) once a week, just like house, as i found out on a recent episode! i've decided i dont like SF and really miss LA. maybe it's because ive only been here for 3 months and SF has yet to grow on me. it took me 3 years to fall for LA. but i really dont like SF, i think id love to live somewhere else and visit here. but i dont see anything it has to offer better than LA. and dont u dare say PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, cause thats bullshit. its unreliable and dirty. and i if i were in la i could drive myself to the same type of destination quicker and be on to another task before the bus even arrived. im all about efficiency, and public transportation in the US is not efficient...i hate waiting. unfortunately the main design firms are in SF...so im stuck here for right now...unless i find a gig in socal.

that said, i really like frog. ive had a great time working here, have fine tuned my ping pong skills and challenge any avalope to a game. they recently offered me a temp position starting in january, which means increased pay. and before tahnksgiving weekend i was 99% sure i would take it, but after spending 4 days back in LA i really do miss LA...and now i want to find a job there in the next week so i can possibly turn down frogs offer and move back to la. im not banking on it, and i wont hate being at frog next spring...but i can hope yea?

so thanksgiving weekend was a blast...im still tired from it. i got in late wednesday night after a crazy week at work...35 hrs between mon/tues...so as soon as i got in i knocked out. thursday had to wake up early to head to lisas parents to help with thanksigivng stuff. once that was done we headed to lisas grandmas for the feast. we ate and played a lot of badmitton, some volleyball and threw the football around...once again exhausted. to keep a tradition going (for some reason i always end up at the movie theater on thanksgiving) lisa and i went to see fantastic mr fox. and well it wsa far from fantastic, yet it was not bad at all...it was nothing i guess...i came out of the movie feeling nothing...i didnt liek the movie i didnt hate the movie, there were no memorable parts good or bad...i have never felt this way abotu a movie...but even that statement is weird because i didnt feel anything towards this movie...its like i watched nothing...very weird. anyway, friday lisa and i woke up early (5 am) to go to sports chalet and buy a ping pong table for super cheap. once purchased we went back to lisas parents and knocked out for a few hours. lisas sisters bf came over later and we went to pick up the table. once home we began to set it up which took 3-4 hrs. finally we got to play ping pong and it was well worth it. friday night lisa and i stumbled upon some great cab at the local liqour store and watched a movie while we snacked on dark chocolate and later salami and cheese...and carrs water crackers of course. very nice night. saturday finally after a nice night of sleep was well rested to take ont he day. lisa and i met up with a good buddy of mine and his gf for a late breakfast which was delicious and then went to a coffee joint where i got some mexican hot chocolate. once again delicious. after that lisa jon and i played tennis...tennis is something new for me. ive played 3 times in the past two months and one before about 13 years ago with my aunt kate at sleepy hollow. i suck...i have potential, i can hit it really hard...i jsut either hit it like a ping pong ball and it goes into the net or like a baseball and it goes soaring out of play...and i mean soaring...but im getting better. and tennis was fun. once again exhausted we headed back to lisas where i cleaned up and we went to her friends house warming party. here we made dumplings which were so good and the friend and her bf had cooked a turkey...which was great as well...we were there for a few hrs and had to leave because i had to attend another house warming party for my friend. so we headed across town and arrived at my friends new house. played some drinking games there had some good laughs and were out of there around 1 am...night over. sunday was much more mellow. lis and i made breakfast and eased into the day. went ice skating mid day...first time in a rink since friday night skating at centennial. ice in the desert...means extremes crappy ice...reynolds lake has better ice in the winter. after skating went to play tennis again...getting a tad better but still no good. after tennis had to rush home clean up and head out to meet lisas family for sushi dinner. it was a good dinner very satisfying. after dinner i went to go [pick up my jacket and headphones which were in my jacket at housewarming party 1's house...they owners were not home...argh...means i have to fly without my headphones, something i hate doing. after that just went home and relaxed. flew out the next morning and took the train into work.

overall it was a great weekend...and i didnt get to do half the things i wanted to. oh well i will be back in two weeks, so all is not lost. back to work i guess..