It all started with the fact that I've not been sleeping well in my bed for a week now. I've been a zombie at work everyday for the past week. Like, I'll sleep lots of hours, but I'll still feel zombie-like. My eyes are heavy, my muscles don't want to move... I feel like I have no bones in my body. Then these rashes started appearing on my ankle. This could be because of the OC Fair... but... I took a nap 40 minutes ago (a not so good nap) and woke up to find the rash on my forearm! Gahh!
So I got up, looked around... looks clean. I started taking all my sheets, comforters and pillow cases apart to wash. Maybe fresh sheets will help me sleep at night too. Then I figured, eh, I might as well flip my mattress over. It's been awhile... and maybe that'll help me sleep, too.
So here I am... flipping a double sided pillow-top full sized mattress by myself in my small boxed room...
I knew it. I was trying to be careful so that wouldn't occur... but of course... it did. Great.
For those of you who have seen my bedroom, my bed is right up against this window wall... (a wall that is mostly window). I recently just moved my desk over next to my bed versus before when it was at the bed of my feet. It's not so spacious anymore. So yeah... it was a bad idea... it was a little cramped... and I could have waited 15 more minutes until my brothers arrived so I could ask for help. But no... I wanted it to get done.
John, Regina, my little brother and I went to check out the Lotus Festival in Echo Park this year. I say it was bigger and better than the Cherry Blossom Festival--but the Cherry Blossom Festival had sushi and demonstrations and yummy foods! Lotus Festival had a lot more local vendors, in my opinion. There was even a PET SHOP vendor... John commented he's never seen one of those before... neither have I. I don't really like birds.
This photo was super bright and over exposed so I had to do that offset thing so it wasn't so harsh on the eyes. Normally, I wouldn't post this photo... but I just HAD to show you guys the new fashionable sunglasses that are being sold! Kanye sported them, and now YOU CAN TOO! For 10 bucks. The packaging also says 100% UV Protection... how? I don't know.
John's pair was the coolest. Here he is modeling for the camera, showing off his stunna shades...
You know what makes me mad? The fact that Jim planned it all out for Pam... and Andy took all the glory and he's not even in LOVE with Angela the way Jim is with Pam. Andy is only in it for the ASS! UGH!
And it makes me mad because that's how life usually is. You plan and plan and plan and then someone else comes in and takes the glory and effort away from you... after all the damn hard work you've put into whatever it may be.
Sigh.
I'm totally digging this song. The guitar. The artist. The lyrics.
Sometimes I wish I had the remote control like Adam Sandler did in the movie "Click". The only difference is that I wouldn't take advantage of it like he did... I wouldn't take certain things for granted and only use it for my benefit. There are just some parts of life that are so lame and redundant... that I just wish I could fast forward through it and get to the next part.
But sometimes routine is good... because it guarantees.
I hate how one thing can be good and bad.
Last few nights I have been refusing sleep. Because of this, I wake up late, I get to work late, I work later after hours, and I come home late and have no time to do anything. It's not that I can't sleep... it's just that lately, when I sleep, I don't ever want to wake up again.
I refuse to sleep. If I sleep, the next thing I will have to do after is wake up and get ready to go to work. But I know I should sleep because I will be having a long day with lots of work tomorrow. Ugh. I don't like work. Blah.
So I stayed up to edit photos. For fun and to show you what I did Saturday.
To sum it all up really quick: Friday: BBQ all day with family, Fireworks downtown with John, BBQ at Ryan's Saturday: LA Arboretum (sorry I forgot to call you back Albert!) and Hangout at Henry and Alissa's Sunday: Errands and edits...
At LA Arboretum...
Garrick made MINI GERK STICKERS! I want some. For fun. Just to collect. Now I wanna turn Peanut into a sticker, too! So I can brand things. Garrick has always encouraged me to do it... since like 2 years ago. I haven't even taken the first step to get this done. This is how lazy I am and shows you how much I've accomplished. Let me take this time to say I am proud of Garrick and all his accomplishments to this day. I can't wait to see what else he has in store...
Oh my, it was so HOT that day. I was on the hunt for shade the entire time we were there at this TREE garden... that's what an Arboretum is, isn't it?
Grilled food, Call of Duty, Poker and drinks at Henry and Alissa's apartment Delicious food! Thanks to...
I'd like to take this time to thank Henry and Alissa for having all of us over and hosting this gathering. I think I speak for everyone when I say we all had fun and we all want to do it again. I want to thank Henry especially for staying up and prepping the food for us. The shrimp, the chicken, the asparagus... so tasty! So juicy and tender and flavorful! You are awesome!
My favorite part of the weekend was sitting out on the balcony grilling and drinking. Even though the smoke from the grill got crazy on us sometimes... "Arf arf arf!"
Oh my oh my... guess who is here? Regina! She's here she's here! And I can't wait to do all the things she wants to do while she's here. No more trying to cram our days out in one weekend! We have entire MONTHS to plan things! I'm so excited... !!!
Do we look like we could possibly be related?
There are other photos. But this is all I'm going to do... I have to save my time and energy to work on photos for clients. Until the next time, I hope all of you have a good week.
**I am now requesting a scanned copy of the polaroid on Henry and Alissa's wall that is titled "Everyone's In!"... thank you.**
It's hard to accept that the older you get the more everyone has their own lives and family and responsibilities to take care of. It's not like in college where we could pretty much ditch whatever it was we were doing for whatever came up at the moment. So as I sit here this Saturday, finally the first Saturday with no plans whatsoever (well, because they fell through)... I felt so alone. I didn't have anything to do. I didn't know who to call. Everyone had plans. Everyone had things to do. I felt so alone! So after editing photos for a bit I took a nap. When I woke up an hour later, I still didn't know what to do so I slept some more. When I woke up an hour later after that... I was in the same predicament... so I slept some more again... until hour 6... I woke up. I showered. I took my time. I sat in the backyard and watched the grass as I ate my dinner. I came back in to edit some photos... but I wasn't satisfied. I wanted to do something! I wanted to go somewhere. I wanted to hear stories and hang out... Relax!
So even though it was 10 pm, I got up and got ready... grabbed my camera, tripod, keys, iPod, cell phone, ID and chapstick and left. I drove around, took some random pictures, got back into my car, turned up KROQ with my windows rolled down and just cruised. It felt nice... then I remembered my previous post regarding gas prices... and headed home. Here are the photos...
I was really scared here. Kept imagining someone was behind me. Kept imagining I would get startled and broke bones on the way down.
Litterbugs...
Ocean Boulevard. The ocean is just over there (to the left)... The Queen Mary, too.
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For fun and to show you what I did Saturday. 
