Combat Baby

You were one inch from the edge of this bed, I dragged you back a sleepyhead.

Hmmm...let's see. There's a whole lot of nothing going on in my life. Last night had some friends over, and we watched "Spice World" and then went on a trip to Target to buy Scene It. 30 FUCKING DOLLARS for Scene It. Christ on a bike.

That being said, "Spice World" is a genius, satirical post-modern film.

And I'm watching "The Office" on DVD right now, because Stephanie lent me the first two seasons. Pretty good. Although I do miss "Arrested Development" and I hope she doesn't destroy them or I would cry forever.

I'm rambling. And I'm going on the (500) Days of Summer tour in Downtown tomomrrow. Should be fun. If I were Joseph Gordon-Levitt I'd make love to myself 24 hours a day.

As ridiculous as it is, I can't help that I enjoy this Shakira song. Any song that uses the word "lycanthropy" in a lyric deserves a thumbs-up in my book.

I heard from a source who is still in regular contact with my ex that he broke up with his boyfriend last night. I thought it was the same guy he started dating about four months after he broke up with me, but apparently it's a new guy altogether. Which means in the last two years he's gone through three boyfriends, while I've had a grand total of zero. Not that it means anything, nor should I be giving a shit, but I think there's something worth noting in that.

I feel mildly productive today. I woke up in a bad mood, drove Pappas to a job interview, and realizing that I was tired and not in a pleasant state of mind she was kind enough to find her own ride back so that I could return home instead of waiting around while she interviewed. Having breakfast, cleaning the bathroom and dusting my room evidently helped lift my sour mood, so I'd say that's a plus.

How did I spend my Halloween, you ask?

I spent it laying in bed with a fever, drugged up on extra strength Tylenol, and watching Halloween movies. It actually wasn't a horrible night, as I did start to feel better after a nap and some medicine, but still. Not how I expected to spend it.

I'm trying to find some motivation in my life, but that's becoming rather difficult. More on this topic later on.

In completely irrelevant news, I decided on my Halloween costume for next year.

This year, I'm Eddie Munster. Which was fun to wear. I'm going to don it one last time for Frank's party tomorrow evening.

But next year I'm going to be....

PRINCE PHILIP.

The real-life Prince Philip, you arses, not the one who slays a dragon to save Sleeping Beauty.

Good ol' Phil, Duke of Edinburgh, Philip of Greece! Complete with the naval uniform and the giant blunderbuss!

I'll most likely be drunk while wearing this costume and walking around saying things like "I'M A BLOODY ROYAL, I'VE NEVER GOTTEN OFF MY FAT ASS IN MY LIFE!", or "SOMEBODY FIX ME A GIN AND TONIC BEFORE I SHUT THIS WHOLE ESTABLISHMENT DOWN!", or "I'M GREEK DAMMIT!"

I'm already excited for it.

I really need some changes in my life. I feel completely unfulfilled from everything that I'm doing right now. Work is draining the soul out of me, if I want to continue my college education I need to actually get my ass in gear and commit myself to my studies.

I feel like I'm going through a quarter-life crisis. Oh well. Welcome to being a young adult in the new millennium.

Some exciting news. My cousin texted me today asking me if I wanted to come join her sometime this next week to collaborate on some songwriting. She has some studio time and has been laying down some tracks, and she wanted me to join her and jam.

Lately I've been feeling like I'm doing absolutely nothing interesting in my life, I've been craving some creative ventures, and I feel like this is the perfect opportunity I've been waiting for.

My cousin and I used to write songs together when we were younger...and by "songs" I mean we dicked around on her beginner's Yamaha keyboard and an acoustic guitar that was missing a string. But even though the work we created was not anything that could have been taken seriously, we still had that feeling that we're on the same musical wavelength, and I'm really excited for what we could possibly come up with this time around.

On the way to Knott's. Pictures coming later. You know the drill by now.

Just got back from seeing Kylie Minogue in concert. I need to process all this still.

Lord oh Lord, another busy month ahead of us.

4th - Kylie Minogue concert.
7th - Knott's
11th - Universal Studios
24th - Brittany's party
31st - Halloween

Good times. I love October.

In other news, work makes me want to stab myself in the eyes. I've been standing up here doing nothing for 6+ hours.

So I've realized a few things about myself recently.

One, I am definitely neurotic. I have major privacy and personal space issues, I am a bit of a hypochondriac, and I am becoming increasingly anti-social at an alarming rate.

Cool.

Two, my patience has been tested lately with how far I am willing to go for friends. I've realized over the past couple of weeks with one friend in particular that, though I have a tendency to whine and I'm not always an easy person to know, I think I can be quite sincere in my own particular way when it comes to my devotion to loved ones.

Even right now, I'm letting one friend stay at my house while they're in a bind and it is most definitely clashing with my neurotic personal space issues (hence why I am up at 4 am, I can't sleep). But I hope that this friend knows I just want to help, and I hope they don't take my bizarre issues personally.

I guess that's part of dealing with me. I have my quirks, my issues, and if you can look past that you'll see that deep down I'm a big softie and I care about those important to me.

I hope one person in particular understands that and doesn't let it eschew their perspective of me.

My grandfather's 75th birthday is this Saturday and already the claws are coming out. My grandparents are driving both my mom and my uncle nuts, one of my cousins isn't coming and that's causing "controversy", and a couple of my grandfather's cousins are threatening to not attend because their sister that they are currently feuding with is planning to attend. Etc etc.

The usual bologna with this family.

I got my car towed on Monday while I was in Northridge visiting Pappas and Annie. That was fun, driving out to fucking Van Nuys and spending $140 to bail my wheels out. If my life ever turns so shitty that the only place I can live in is Van Nuys, someone please put a bullet right through my skull.

In other non-related news, tonight is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs concert at the Greek Theater that I was unable to get tickets to. Sad times for everyone.

Well it just wouldn't be a party in my family if there wasn't drama precluding all of it.

You know what's awesome? Getting permission from my manager to call in sick tomorrow so that the other manager has to actually stay and work on a weekend for once in her God foresaken life.

Not only that but getting paid for taking the day off also.

I'm okay with that.

At work right now, and incredibly bored. But I do love that we've finally began slowing down at the hotel, as much as I enjoy obnoxious families on vacation to Magic Mountain (there's a real problem with our society when families spend their "weekend getaways" at Six Flags).

Not like I should talk, because in about two and a half hours I'm leaving work early to head to Disneyland for Karin's birthday. I told them I have a "dentist appointment". I'm going to rot in hell for being the liar that I am. Not to mention for being a fallen Catholic, a sodomite, among other things.

Anyway, I'm glad summer's almost over.

I find approximately 75% of the people in my life incredibly annoying.

In other news, I was sweating like a pig walking to class from my car this afternoon.

Isn't there supposed to be El Nino this year or something?

Some fun things coming up soon.

Sept. 9 - Going to Disneyland for Karin's birthday. Seriously, my Disneyland annual pass was the greatest investment I made in 2009.

Sept. 17 - Seeing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Greek Theater with Stephanie.

Sept. 19 - My grandfather's 75th birthday, basically an excuse to have yet another huge family gathering at my uncle's house. We tend to do this at least once a year, and my life is all the better because of it. I love my obnoxious Mexican family.

Sept. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 - Originally, I was planning to go to Las Vegas with my parents, my sister and her boyfriend, but since my parents are no longer going because they're flying to the east coast to look at colleges for my other sister, I volunteered to keep those days off so that I could keep an eye on my brother and shuttle him around to his various practices and such. Basically, five days away from work with my parents out of the house is going to be heavenly.

And that is it for now. October is going to be an even busier month.

Well so much for kicking some ass in trivia last night. We placed fifth.

I'm telling you, if we had chosen the largest US cities instead of countries beginning with "T", I would have aced it for us.

I'm wishing it were fall. Big time. I'm craving late September through all of October.

At least trivia night is tonight and our team can attempt to kick some ass again.  

My job suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

In other news, I'm currently trying to compile a playlist for Brittany's annual Halloween party. One of my primary jobs has always been providing the music for these parties. I take it seriously.

I've also decided my Halloween costume this year.