and you know what that means? i didn't succesfully update this blog! i'm nothing if not consistent.
Well here i am in the year 2010, month december, day 7, degrees low 30s. and what does that mean? that i'm back home! A-town Stay down! (does anyone still say that?) i feel so disconnected from Georgia, which, being too connected to Georgia was the reason i left, may be a good thing.
Sitting here in Nina's room waiting for her to come home has been my reality of Georgia for the latter half of this decade. I love coming home. And this time around I feel like not just coming home to visit, but to actually come home. Maybe it's time? I just feel like if i actually do come back, i'll regret it. Who would leave tropical paradise for black winter? But being that my whole family is here and that living in paradise has led to me only meeting my newest addition to the family after she has already learned to walk... i miss my family and don't want to miss getting to know them.
i feel like i'm typing funny... am i typing funny? and no, i'm not talking abt misuse of caps and grammatical errors.. i feel like my words... i'm not using them right. write? wright? wrong.
as i was saying, the time to move back to reality might be creeping up with me. i guess it goes hand in hand with time creeping up. age is a bitter bitch. i remember when i couldn't wait to be 16.. then 18... then 21... after 21 what's there to look towards? why am i so not positive right now? maybe i'm going through sun deficiency. not that i even go to the beach that often when i'm in hawaii, but i've come to realize that i like being able to take things for granted. is that wrong? i love that the beach is there when i want it. omgosh... i'll be regretting these words later. i miss you beach!
My trip back home has been a great one so far! i have spent alot of time with my family, my sister is here from singapore w/ her 3 boys and i haven't seen them in forever and i'm surprised they still remember me! i was able to attend my mom's 80th birthday party which had an auditorium full of familiar faces without names. so many ppl that i grew up with, but don't have the slightest idea who they are! it was good to see them... even though i don't remember them... so maybe i should say that it was good for them to see me. heh heh
aside from my family and being able to spend time with them i have been staying at nina's house so it's good to see her and jane and be able to do all the things we used to love doing! Pretty much the theme to me and nina revolves around balls. yeah i said it. balls. but not just any balls. these balls are to the wall!!! muahahaha everything we do, we do balls to the wall! ok i'm gonna stop saying balls. but yeah, eating, drinking, jumbo bucks.. even an innocent trip to kroger's for a bottle of wine turns into an all out shopping spree! that's what i love abt nina, she gets me. balls.
and i got to see my long lost african sister from another cambodian kpop mistress, IRA! and what's the first thing i do when i see her? felt her dreads! i don't think i've ever touched them before! but maybe it's because before when i saw her she had crazy hair, but not dreads. i love ira for her phases! uga phase, wasabi dooms and a dooms crazy moves phase, lesbian phase, jew phase, korea phase, AA phase... and i think if you ball (yeah i said ball again) all of the up in one, you have current confused ira who wants to go to africa (or was it india... i don't know... it's one of those places i would never go to or ever want to go to... or ever want anyone i know to go to...) to volunteer for 3 months! Volunteer! Free! No Pay! Well there is pay involved, but not towards her... from her. she pays. $2000 was it for the ticket? in the words of miss i herself... HUHLLLLL!!!! i have no idea what that means, but it feels appropriate. but i love ira and everything phase she's gone through makes her the crazy bag lady she is today.
So the first day i got here, my sisters picked me up and after taking me straight to the hospital to dethaw my frostbite, i went out w/ ira to meet up w/ nina at changs where she was bartending! miss i is currently into dirty martinis and while i've always been fond of filthy martinis, haven't had one in forever! So we started the night (or should i say half hour, with 2 greygoose dirty martinis made by the heavy handed tender! every thing i just said in the last sentence is awesome. after downing the tinis, we headed out to the second and last stop of the night... changs. how do i always end up there? but this time to the one in perimeter to see my zimbabwean bestie, marjorie kanheema! i can go years w/o seeing this bish and the second i see her again, it's like we're siamese twins joined together at the head! after another dirty... then a mysterytini... then a beer which i took the the face... and then another beer that never had a chance... and then miss i's tini that i demolished... i... was.. done. Who turned the lights out? Blackout. Cut to the next day where I wake up hungover... my phone blowing up w/ everyone telling me to get to my moms bday party... where am i? how long will it take me to get there? Whoa! One question at a time and make it a good one... let me ask myself one... WHO AM I? Ugh... bad idea partying like a rockstar... i'll never learn.
So cut to (i love doing cut tos...) a cpl days later and i'm ready to get back into some mischief! which is why i'll be going out with nina and a good portion of.. wait for it.... THELUSCIOUSPEACHES! MUAHAHAHAHA pictures and details to come... and i better not blackout bc this is gonna be good!!!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
It's 4 in the morning....
I can't seem to sleep and since I haven't updated this blog as much as I wanted to... I figure why not now when I have hours to kill before the sun comes up?
Summer has come and gone and I don't really remember too much of it because I spent almost every single day working! Part of the reason was that I have alot to save up for and I don't want to look back and wish that I had worked more and saved more... but mostly it's because I am a workaholic and the money was just too good! Looking back and comparing to how work is these days.... it's almost unbearable. Being in the service industry, you take for granted the days when you can make money without even trying. No matter what, when it's busy and there's a line out the door, you're gonna make money. Combine all of those things with a good attitude and hunger for more money and you have my summer in a nutshell!
To be honest, I'm pretty burnt out on Changs right now. I think I overdid it. The last two weeks have been torture and not only am I in need of a good vacation, but the clientele is all foreigners (Australians, Europeans, Indians, African Americans and White trash...) and not worth my time. Japanese customers are always the best and they don't really understand the tipping system so they are somewhat open to learning... or at least they leave tip whether they know why or not. They are just genuinely nice people who don't want to be rude. Unlike the afore mentioned "foreigners" who know how to tip, but simply don't. For whatever reason they don't want to tip is fine, but as long as they're nice and not out of control, I can deal with their 10% tips. However, like I said, the past two weeks have been torture.
The restaurant business is definitely an exciting place to work and I always have fun with the people I work with, but I think that it's time for a change. Not necessarily a change of job, but a new job title. I want to be a bartender! I never thought I would want to be a bartender because it's bad enough serving sober people, but drunken douchebags?! Luckily my restaurant has two floors and the second floor's bar is behind the scenes and only makes drinks for the servers on that floor. These bartenders don't make tips off of customers, but make their money from a percentage of what the servers sell. Occasionally the second floor bartenders get tables which helps out alot. I really want to be a second floor bartender and not have to deal with customers and just make drinks and listen to my ipod! And maybe a sip here and there will help pass the time! Hopefully my manager will have me trained once a position opens up! Change of pace will do me good!
And now that the summer is over, it's time to start spending!!! In approximately 10 hours I will be in the air on my way to Japan! I'm going with two girls that I work with, Wakana and Bing! I can't believe that this is really happening! I haven't been to Japan since 2006 so it's long overdue! First stop will be in Osaka and then off to Nagoya, which will be awesome because my mom is there, and then off to Tokyo for the majority of time!!! I've never stayed in Tokyo for more than a day so this is gonna be insane!
Coincidentally enough, a good friend from Atlanta just moved to Tokyo two weeks ago and is living in Roppongi! I've known Jennifer Chan since high school, but haven't seen her for over 5+ years! I had no clue she moved to Japan, but Facebook never fails! I've made plans to meet up with another Jennifer (Roff) that I've known for almost all my life! Hopefully I will get to see more people, but we'll see what happens!
My plan when I get back is to take it easy and not pick up shifts so much, but easier said than done. I need to start enjoying Hawaii and get a tan! The girl we rent from just told us she has to refinance the condo we're in and to do so she has to live here, so when I get back from Japan it's time to move again! We haven't really found a place yet, but we've definitely gone through every option out there. Hawaii is horrible with allowing pets in apartments so nearly every ad out there says NO PETS! I really hope that we find something good and worth what we're paying for...
I am going to miss Mitch and Levi SO much while I'm gone. They are the best family I could ever ask for! I finally stopped working so much so that I can spend time with them and it's nothing but nonstop happiness! In November Mitch plans to go to see his family and then end of November I'll be going back home so lots of traveling, but absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? It'll be so good to see family and friends before the holidays begin!
I recently put on my Facebook a list of things I want to do before 2011 so I'll post it here as a reminder to really do them all!
1. North Shore
2. Fishing
3. Tide pools? Not sure where, but I always see pictures!
4. Watch the sunrise on the beach
5. Have a dinner party
6. Hike diamond head or somewhere challenging
7. Take out a cooler and drink on surfboards
8. Get some great pictures of honus (waimea?)
9. Get a goldish
10. Get a tan
11. Eat at Leonards
12. Watch alot of movies
13. Start drawing again
14. Read a book
15. Give clothes to Goodwill
16. Hanauma Bay
17. Wet and Wild!
18. Yokohama beach
Here's to the rest of 2010 being as awesome as the beginning!
Summer has come and gone and I don't really remember too much of it because I spent almost every single day working! Part of the reason was that I have alot to save up for and I don't want to look back and wish that I had worked more and saved more... but mostly it's because I am a workaholic and the money was just too good! Looking back and comparing to how work is these days.... it's almost unbearable. Being in the service industry, you take for granted the days when you can make money without even trying. No matter what, when it's busy and there's a line out the door, you're gonna make money. Combine all of those things with a good attitude and hunger for more money and you have my summer in a nutshell!
To be honest, I'm pretty burnt out on Changs right now. I think I overdid it. The last two weeks have been torture and not only am I in need of a good vacation, but the clientele is all foreigners (Australians, Europeans, Indians, African Americans and White trash...) and not worth my time. Japanese customers are always the best and they don't really understand the tipping system so they are somewhat open to learning... or at least they leave tip whether they know why or not. They are just genuinely nice people who don't want to be rude. Unlike the afore mentioned "foreigners" who know how to tip, but simply don't. For whatever reason they don't want to tip is fine, but as long as they're nice and not out of control, I can deal with their 10% tips. However, like I said, the past two weeks have been torture.
The restaurant business is definitely an exciting place to work and I always have fun with the people I work with, but I think that it's time for a change. Not necessarily a change of job, but a new job title. I want to be a bartender! I never thought I would want to be a bartender because it's bad enough serving sober people, but drunken douchebags?! Luckily my restaurant has two floors and the second floor's bar is behind the scenes and only makes drinks for the servers on that floor. These bartenders don't make tips off of customers, but make their money from a percentage of what the servers sell. Occasionally the second floor bartenders get tables which helps out alot. I really want to be a second floor bartender and not have to deal with customers and just make drinks and listen to my ipod! And maybe a sip here and there will help pass the time! Hopefully my manager will have me trained once a position opens up! Change of pace will do me good!
And now that the summer is over, it's time to start spending!!! In approximately 10 hours I will be in the air on my way to Japan! I'm going with two girls that I work with, Wakana and Bing! I can't believe that this is really happening! I haven't been to Japan since 2006 so it's long overdue! First stop will be in Osaka and then off to Nagoya, which will be awesome because my mom is there, and then off to Tokyo for the majority of time!!! I've never stayed in Tokyo for more than a day so this is gonna be insane!
Coincidentally enough, a good friend from Atlanta just moved to Tokyo two weeks ago and is living in Roppongi! I've known Jennifer Chan since high school, but haven't seen her for over 5+ years! I had no clue she moved to Japan, but Facebook never fails! I've made plans to meet up with another Jennifer (Roff) that I've known for almost all my life! Hopefully I will get to see more people, but we'll see what happens!
My plan when I get back is to take it easy and not pick up shifts so much, but easier said than done. I need to start enjoying Hawaii and get a tan! The girl we rent from just told us she has to refinance the condo we're in and to do so she has to live here, so when I get back from Japan it's time to move again! We haven't really found a place yet, but we've definitely gone through every option out there. Hawaii is horrible with allowing pets in apartments so nearly every ad out there says NO PETS! I really hope that we find something good and worth what we're paying for...
I am going to miss Mitch and Levi SO much while I'm gone. They are the best family I could ever ask for! I finally stopped working so much so that I can spend time with them and it's nothing but nonstop happiness! In November Mitch plans to go to see his family and then end of November I'll be going back home so lots of traveling, but absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? It'll be so good to see family and friends before the holidays begin!
I recently put on my Facebook a list of things I want to do before 2011 so I'll post it here as a reminder to really do them all!
1. North Shore
2. Fishing
3. Tide pools? Not sure where, but I always see pictures!
4. Watch the sunrise on the beach
5. Have a dinner party
6. Hike diamond head or somewhere challenging
7. Take out a cooler and drink on surfboards
8. Get some great pictures of honus (waimea?)
9. Get a goldish
10. Get a tan
11. Eat at Leonards
12. Watch alot of movies
13. Start drawing again
14. Read a book
15. Give clothes to Goodwill
16. Hanauma Bay
17. Wet and Wild!
18. Yokohama beach
Here's to the rest of 2010 being as awesome as the beginning!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
A year+ later....
I know I always say it, but damn.... time goes by so fast!
Another thing I always say is that i'm going to update this blog as much as possible, but i think that this time i really will keep it up. For one thing, who knows how much longer I will be living in Hawaii and I want to chronicle every detail so I can look back and recall everything that i've loved, left and lost.
So morbid.
I always think it's so funny how one person's "Hawaii" is so different from another person's "Hawaii". So many people love living here so they can hike everyday and focus their inner self with positive vibes and blah blah blah... "My Hawaii" is so different. I love hiking, but I'm not really down with waking up every other morning just to climb a mountain. When I look back on Hawaii I'm going to remember waking up every day and thinking "I'm In Hawaii!" Even throughout the bad times and knowing that maybe I didn't go and do all the touristy or even local things that ppl love to do, but I know that my time spent here was spent loving every day with great adventures and even greater people!
Not to say that I'm planning to move anytime soon, but I know that eventually I'm going to move back to mainland even if I don't go back to Georgia. I really feel like the simplicity of living on the other side of the United States and being able to book a flight back home for the weekend is something that I always took for granted. I would love to go home for holidays, special occasions or just whenever I got homesick and not have to worry so much about the price of airfare. Someday I'll get a "real" job and have a normal 9-5 with weekends off and traffic everywhere I go. Someday.... but until that day I'm gonna enjoy wallering in bed with Levi until I get too hungry to be lazy and staying up into all hours of the night doing nothing because even if I go to sleep at 2am I'll still get 8 hours of sleep if I wake up by 10am! Such little things bring me so much joy!
I just realized something about myself that I never would have pegged myself as... I'm a procrastinator! Who knew I was one of those people who put off until tomorrow.... now that I've realized my fault I have been working on it in certain areas of my life.
Recently I took a trip to the dentist with Mitch to have a checkup and I knew that I would have a couple of cavities, but I never thought I would have as many as I did.... FOURTEEN!!! Well.... the dentist said I had twelve, but when he was fixing one of them he found two more inside it.... EWWW!!! So four trips to the dentist, $1,000+ bill and a panic attack later I am now cavity free! Just like mitch who NEVER flosses and didn't have any cavities to show on his checkup. Twisted.
So I was pretty hands on with getting my mouth in order, but I'm also in the process of getting back into school and need to get a spot on my arm checked by a derm. I really doubt that the spot is anything to worry about, but it needs to go away! School is such an ordeal with getting the shots, transferring locations w/in the UH institution and registering that I don't know if I'm going to be able to get in this fall, but I will do everything within my mortal being to do my best.
Work is going really well and has been super busy this summer! Got into about a thousand fights w/ different people for various reasons, but had a little talk w/ the good angel on my shoulder and have pretty much reconciled all of the bad relations with those I got into it with. Albeit that my reasons are valid for bringing on the controvery, but I got a bit out of control and started getting into it with EVERYONE and that's always when I realize i just need to take it down a notch and keep telling myself "BE NICE" which is surprisingly easier said than done!
I worked really hard and finally paid off my dental bill and finally feel like I'm making "me" money! But all of that ''me money" has a designated goal attached so it's not like I can just go shopping or making it rain... I have alot of trips coming up that I really want to make happen!
August before school starts I want to take a trip to Maui (especially since I haven't been yet) with the "Kauai Kawaiis" (Sopheap. Amanda. Wakana. Keala) and Bing and Maria! This time hopefully we can get a beach house and have beach parties! Maui is good because it's pretty inexpensive! I wish that the Ferry still was running, but I guess just like everybody else I never went when it was running and so it had to shut down!
Then in October or November I want to go to Japan! Mitch actually got to go to Japan w/ Kamehameha schools as a chaperone o their field trip and it really made me want to go back asap! I haven't been since 2006! The crew for this trip would be Bing and Wakana and anyone else who could make it! Hopefully Mitch can take some more vacay time!
And then for sure in November I want to go back and celebrate my mom's 80th birthday with her! I just found out that my sister that lives in Singapore will be coming back towards the end of November with her kids so hopefully I can go back around that time! I haven't seen them in forever!
And as always I'm trying to live healthy, debt free and according to the life plan of Suze Orman, but I'm still a work in progress! Maybe tracking my progress through this blog will help keep me in check! Other than financially and personally, i want to do better physically and need to get on a strict schedule of hitting the gym!
Maybe I should bust out my new years resolutions and see how I'm doing....
Another thing I always say is that i'm going to update this blog as much as possible, but i think that this time i really will keep it up. For one thing, who knows how much longer I will be living in Hawaii and I want to chronicle every detail so I can look back and recall everything that i've loved, left and lost.
So morbid.
I always think it's so funny how one person's "Hawaii" is so different from another person's "Hawaii". So many people love living here so they can hike everyday and focus their inner self with positive vibes and blah blah blah... "My Hawaii" is so different. I love hiking, but I'm not really down with waking up every other morning just to climb a mountain. When I look back on Hawaii I'm going to remember waking up every day and thinking "I'm In Hawaii!" Even throughout the bad times and knowing that maybe I didn't go and do all the touristy or even local things that ppl love to do, but I know that my time spent here was spent loving every day with great adventures and even greater people!
Not to say that I'm planning to move anytime soon, but I know that eventually I'm going to move back to mainland even if I don't go back to Georgia. I really feel like the simplicity of living on the other side of the United States and being able to book a flight back home for the weekend is something that I always took for granted. I would love to go home for holidays, special occasions or just whenever I got homesick and not have to worry so much about the price of airfare. Someday I'll get a "real" job and have a normal 9-5 with weekends off and traffic everywhere I go. Someday.... but until that day I'm gonna enjoy wallering in bed with Levi until I get too hungry to be lazy and staying up into all hours of the night doing nothing because even if I go to sleep at 2am I'll still get 8 hours of sleep if I wake up by 10am! Such little things bring me so much joy!
I just realized something about myself that I never would have pegged myself as... I'm a procrastinator! Who knew I was one of those people who put off until tomorrow.... now that I've realized my fault I have been working on it in certain areas of my life.
Recently I took a trip to the dentist with Mitch to have a checkup and I knew that I would have a couple of cavities, but I never thought I would have as many as I did.... FOURTEEN!!! Well.... the dentist said I had twelve, but when he was fixing one of them he found two more inside it.... EWWW!!! So four trips to the dentist, $1,000+ bill and a panic attack later I am now cavity free! Just like mitch who NEVER flosses and didn't have any cavities to show on his checkup. Twisted.
So I was pretty hands on with getting my mouth in order, but I'm also in the process of getting back into school and need to get a spot on my arm checked by a derm. I really doubt that the spot is anything to worry about, but it needs to go away! School is such an ordeal with getting the shots, transferring locations w/in the UH institution and registering that I don't know if I'm going to be able to get in this fall, but I will do everything within my mortal being to do my best.
Work is going really well and has been super busy this summer! Got into about a thousand fights w/ different people for various reasons, but had a little talk w/ the good angel on my shoulder and have pretty much reconciled all of the bad relations with those I got into it with. Albeit that my reasons are valid for bringing on the controvery, but I got a bit out of control and started getting into it with EVERYONE and that's always when I realize i just need to take it down a notch and keep telling myself "BE NICE" which is surprisingly easier said than done!
I worked really hard and finally paid off my dental bill and finally feel like I'm making "me" money! But all of that ''me money" has a designated goal attached so it's not like I can just go shopping or making it rain... I have alot of trips coming up that I really want to make happen!
August before school starts I want to take a trip to Maui (especially since I haven't been yet) with the "Kauai Kawaiis" (Sopheap. Amanda. Wakana. Keala) and Bing and Maria! This time hopefully we can get a beach house and have beach parties! Maui is good because it's pretty inexpensive! I wish that the Ferry still was running, but I guess just like everybody else I never went when it was running and so it had to shut down!
Then in October or November I want to go to Japan! Mitch actually got to go to Japan w/ Kamehameha schools as a chaperone o their field trip and it really made me want to go back asap! I haven't been since 2006! The crew for this trip would be Bing and Wakana and anyone else who could make it! Hopefully Mitch can take some more vacay time!
And then for sure in November I want to go back and celebrate my mom's 80th birthday with her! I just found out that my sister that lives in Singapore will be coming back towards the end of November with her kids so hopefully I can go back around that time! I haven't seen them in forever!
And as always I'm trying to live healthy, debt free and according to the life plan of Suze Orman, but I'm still a work in progress! Maybe tracking my progress through this blog will help keep me in check! Other than financially and personally, i want to do better physically and need to get on a strict schedule of hitting the gym!
Maybe I should bust out my new years resolutions and see how I'm doing....
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Where do I begin...
I really need to start updating this blog more often! So much has happened and I really feel like this year has really started off great! Let's see....
Nina FINALLY came to Hawaii after almost a year of excited anticipation! I took the whole week off from work because I knew that I wasn't going to be feelin' Changs once she got here! She got in and I greeted her with a lei at the airport and the week was filled with ALOT of eating and ALOT of drinking! Unfortunately there wasn't alot of sun because the weather here has been pretty cloudy and rainy, but towards the end of her stay the sun came out enough for us to tan a little... not quite BRAZILIAN, but... we tried. The week really did go by SO fast and before I knew it we were taking her back to the airport... I'll post pictures later! (I know I always say that, but I will! For some reason the uploader isn't working right now)
I just went back to work last night after a week of spending way too much money and not working so I have to hit the ground running and make some money before the month is over! My goal is to make $2,042 by the end of the month! Maybe unrealistic, but it's interesting to see how close I can get!
I have a double tomorrow so if I survive it I'll update more often! AND post pictures!
Nina FINALLY came to Hawaii after almost a year of excited anticipation! I took the whole week off from work because I knew that I wasn't going to be feelin' Changs once she got here! She got in and I greeted her with a lei at the airport and the week was filled with ALOT of eating and ALOT of drinking! Unfortunately there wasn't alot of sun because the weather here has been pretty cloudy and rainy, but towards the end of her stay the sun came out enough for us to tan a little... not quite BRAZILIAN, but... we tried. The week really did go by SO fast and before I knew it we were taking her back to the airport... I'll post pictures later! (I know I always say that, but I will! For some reason the uploader isn't working right now)
I just went back to work last night after a week of spending way too much money and not working so I have to hit the ground running and make some money before the month is over! My goal is to make $2,042 by the end of the month! Maybe unrealistic, but it's interesting to see how close I can get!
I have a double tomorrow so if I survive it I'll update more often! AND post pictures!
Friday, January 23, 2009
First Post of 2009!
2008 has gone and 2009 is here!
The year has started off strong and I'm feeling very positive!
To sum up the end of 2008... I went back to Atlanta to celebrate Christmas and my sister's 50th birthday! I stayed at Nina's place and that way got to spend time w/ my family during the day and then got to party with friends at night! I think I got a total of 20 hours of sleep the whole time I was there and Nina probably got... 4? LOL It was a crazy week, but I wouldn't have rather spent it any other way! I got to eat so much food that I had been craving!!! And I went to Target almost every day! I have so many pictures to post so those will come soon!
New Years Eve was spent with Mitch & Marque @ Hulas! We almost rang in the countdown standing in line because it was so slow, but we finally made it in, met up with Rocky and rang in the new years in style w/ champagne and good friends!
Starting off the new year I didn't want to go out too much because even though I didn't make any resolutions, I wanted to pay off credit cards and make lots of money... especially after goin' crazy in Atlanta buying anything and everything! But Rocky had a fashion show at Hula's so we all wanted to go for that so after work we all headed over to Hula's, but unfortunately we made it just in time to miss it. Everyone came out for the show and we were all having a good time, but there was this one black tranny and her friend that was pissin' us all off all night and ended up with an all out brawl! Well... not exactly a brawl, but "her" and Rocky got into an altercation and it threw it's drink at him and busted up his eye! So Killa E, Gangsta Mitch and Old-School Marque were all up on the bitch and the tranny gets thrown out of Hulas and banned forever! We chase her out of Hulas and I swear, it was a scene from Real World, Bad Girls Club and I Love New York all up in one! Rocky had to get stitches, but is all healed by now. The tranny hasn't been seen since, but Hulas is the best bar in Waikiki and Rocky's man bartends there and went to the other gay bars/clubs and had them ban the tran too so where else is a tranny to go? I guess it fucked with the wrong ppl this time. Bitch.
Aside from tranny bashing, this month has been spent working, paying bills, saving money so we can move and relaxing as much as possible! Nina is coming out here (OFFICIALLY!!!) in the beginning of March and I can't stop thinking of everything I wanna take her to and all the good food we will eat and can't forget the drinks!!! Booze cruise fo' shoooo!!! I definitely wanna be out of this apartment by next month because the one we are in right now is stankyyy!!! Last night there were 6 cop cars right outside my window at 3am arresting these kids for smokin' pot! Snuck up to their van and flashed their lights in and busted them suckas! Normally I would be on the potheads side, but they were being so loud outside my window so that's what they get!
So judging from the year so far, 2009 is definitely gonna be a rollercoaster of good times! Stay Tuned!
I leave you with the newest video by Leona Lewis! "I Will Be" is off her debut album and is one of my favorites so I'm glad that she made a video to it! And it doesn't hurt that Chace Crawford is in it too!
The year has started off strong and I'm feeling very positive!
To sum up the end of 2008... I went back to Atlanta to celebrate Christmas and my sister's 50th birthday! I stayed at Nina's place and that way got to spend time w/ my family during the day and then got to party with friends at night! I think I got a total of 20 hours of sleep the whole time I was there and Nina probably got... 4? LOL It was a crazy week, but I wouldn't have rather spent it any other way! I got to eat so much food that I had been craving!!! And I went to Target almost every day! I have so many pictures to post so those will come soon!
New Years Eve was spent with Mitch & Marque @ Hulas! We almost rang in the countdown standing in line because it was so slow, but we finally made it in, met up with Rocky and rang in the new years in style w/ champagne and good friends!
Starting off the new year I didn't want to go out too much because even though I didn't make any resolutions, I wanted to pay off credit cards and make lots of money... especially after goin' crazy in Atlanta buying anything and everything! But Rocky had a fashion show at Hula's so we all wanted to go for that so after work we all headed over to Hula's, but unfortunately we made it just in time to miss it. Everyone came out for the show and we were all having a good time, but there was this one black tranny and her friend that was pissin' us all off all night and ended up with an all out brawl! Well... not exactly a brawl, but "her" and Rocky got into an altercation and it threw it's drink at him and busted up his eye! So Killa E, Gangsta Mitch and Old-School Marque were all up on the bitch and the tranny gets thrown out of Hulas and banned forever! We chase her out of Hulas and I swear, it was a scene from Real World, Bad Girls Club and I Love New York all up in one! Rocky had to get stitches, but is all healed by now. The tranny hasn't been seen since, but Hulas is the best bar in Waikiki and Rocky's man bartends there and went to the other gay bars/clubs and had them ban the tran too so where else is a tranny to go? I guess it fucked with the wrong ppl this time. Bitch.
Aside from tranny bashing, this month has been spent working, paying bills, saving money so we can move and relaxing as much as possible! Nina is coming out here (OFFICIALLY!!!) in the beginning of March and I can't stop thinking of everything I wanna take her to and all the good food we will eat and can't forget the drinks!!! Booze cruise fo' shoooo!!! I definitely wanna be out of this apartment by next month because the one we are in right now is stankyyy!!! Last night there were 6 cop cars right outside my window at 3am arresting these kids for smokin' pot! Snuck up to their van and flashed their lights in and busted them suckas! Normally I would be on the potheads side, but they were being so loud outside my window so that's what they get!
So judging from the year so far, 2009 is definitely gonna be a rollercoaster of good times! Stay Tuned!
I leave you with the newest video by Leona Lewis! "I Will Be" is off her debut album and is one of my favorites so I'm glad that she made a video to it! And it doesn't hurt that Chace Crawford is in it too!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas!
Ten days into December and it feels like SO much is going on, which is such a contrast to the past two weeks where it feels like I've been doing absolutely nothing!
Mitch went to Maui a week before Thanksgiving to open up a couple of stores for Verizon and then came back for Thanksgiving, only to leave the next morning for another two weeks! So it's been almost three weeks of him being away, but it felt like forever! Of course we text constantly and talk everyday, but it's just not the same. I totally feel the lyrics to Avril Lavigne's song "When You're Gone" where she says
"...and the days feel like years when I'm alone... and the bed where you lie is made up on your side...."
But he gets back in two days! So the monotony of working everyday will be broken! I've been working everyday since he's been gone except for one off day... usually i love off days, but might as well try to make some money instead of just spending. Plus the weather has been pretty lame here these days. Believe it or not, it actually feels like winter here! Well... not winter, but I thought that it would feel the same as summer here, but you can definitely feel the change of climate. You can still go to the beach in the daytime, but at night you can maybe get away with wearing a hoodie! Hawaii is definitely my tropical paradise!
Onto some more exciting news, my brother called me the other day and asked if I could get some time off from work to go back home to Atlanta for Christmas and if I could they would buy me a ticket to go out there! At first I didn't want to get my hopes up because work was pretty strict about asking for time off asap in advance, but I sent out a message to my managers and got the okay so I booked the flight and will be back in the "A" by the 22nd! It's my sister Miko's 50th birthday on the 23rd so that's another reason they wanted me to come to surprise her! I'm so excited to go back, but it's a bit bittersweet because Mitch is JUST getting home and then off I go and I feel horrible because he will be alone for Christmas, but he says he is going to our friend, Rajah's house for dinner so that's sweet!
I'm so excited to see everyone and getting to eat everything that I've been missing and going to Target! I'm gonna come back broke and fat, but oh so happy! I have to find a really good present for Miko since it's her 50th so the pressures on! But I'll procrastinate a little longer because I have to get ready to go get some PHO with Sasha!
I leave you with three videos!
The first one is a SNL digital short music video entitled "J*zz In My Pants" ft. cameos by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler and Justin Timberlake! Reminds me of Melody's ex-bf who was a one minute man and every time they would start to have sex he would j*zz and scream out in pleasure and embarrassment "IIIIII'MMMMMM SOOOOOORRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ha ha ha ha ha
Next up is a video less perverted (unless you're into this kinda stuff... ew.) and this video is pure comedic relief! I don't care if your hair is falling out or you just got word that you're pregnant with twin dalmations... you will laugh your balls off!
And on a more inspirational note... this is Leona Lewis' performance on X-Factor of her latest release "RUN" a cover she did of Snow Patrol's original. Leona Lewis took this song and made it infinitely better! And this performance is amazing!
Mitch went to Maui a week before Thanksgiving to open up a couple of stores for Verizon and then came back for Thanksgiving, only to leave the next morning for another two weeks! So it's been almost three weeks of him being away, but it felt like forever! Of course we text constantly and talk everyday, but it's just not the same. I totally feel the lyrics to Avril Lavigne's song "When You're Gone" where she says
"...and the days feel like years when I'm alone... and the bed where you lie is made up on your side...."
But he gets back in two days! So the monotony of working everyday will be broken! I've been working everyday since he's been gone except for one off day... usually i love off days, but might as well try to make some money instead of just spending. Plus the weather has been pretty lame here these days. Believe it or not, it actually feels like winter here! Well... not winter, but I thought that it would feel the same as summer here, but you can definitely feel the change of climate. You can still go to the beach in the daytime, but at night you can maybe get away with wearing a hoodie! Hawaii is definitely my tropical paradise!
Onto some more exciting news, my brother called me the other day and asked if I could get some time off from work to go back home to Atlanta for Christmas and if I could they would buy me a ticket to go out there! At first I didn't want to get my hopes up because work was pretty strict about asking for time off asap in advance, but I sent out a message to my managers and got the okay so I booked the flight and will be back in the "A" by the 22nd! It's my sister Miko's 50th birthday on the 23rd so that's another reason they wanted me to come to surprise her! I'm so excited to go back, but it's a bit bittersweet because Mitch is JUST getting home and then off I go and I feel horrible because he will be alone for Christmas, but he says he is going to our friend, Rajah's house for dinner so that's sweet!
I'm so excited to see everyone and getting to eat everything that I've been missing and going to Target! I'm gonna come back broke and fat, but oh so happy! I have to find a really good present for Miko since it's her 50th so the pressures on! But I'll procrastinate a little longer because I have to get ready to go get some PHO with Sasha!
I leave you with three videos!
The first one is a SNL digital short music video entitled "J*zz In My Pants" ft. cameos by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler and Justin Timberlake! Reminds me of Melody's ex-bf who was a one minute man and every time they would start to have sex he would j*zz and scream out in pleasure and embarrassment "IIIIII'MMMMMM SOOOOOORRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ha ha ha ha ha
Next up is a video less perverted (unless you're into this kinda stuff... ew.) and this video is pure comedic relief! I don't care if your hair is falling out or you just got word that you're pregnant with twin dalmations... you will laugh your balls off!
And on a more inspirational note... this is Leona Lewis' performance on X-Factor of her latest release "RUN" a cover she did of Snow Patrol's original. Leona Lewis took this song and made it infinitely better! And this performance is amazing!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Almost Christmas...
November is almost over and guess where I just came from! The beach! Ahhhh..... so good to live in Hawaii!
Mitch has been in Maui for almost a week now and it is driving me crazy! He went over last week to open up three stores for Verizon and has been over there with the big wigs having a good ol' time despite being away from home... but I'm so proud of him for working so hard and getting ahead in the company. He comes home tomorrow, but unfortunately has to go back on Friday for two weeks! Apparently they'll be staying in a bomb condo and it's like the ones you see on the Real World! So jealous! Since he's been gone I've just been working everyday and making lots of money for Christmas! Tomorrow will be my 12th day in a row at work, but that's completely okay with me! Especially since I have Thanksgiving off! Waikiki never closes so we're gonna be open for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, etc. We're obligated to work two out of those threes days so I'll probably be scheduled for Christmas and New Years Eve, but I'll definitely be releasing those shifts, manipulating HotSchedules and paying if I have to just to have those days off!
It's gonna be so weird to not be home for the holidays, but I kind of want to be in Hawaii for my first Christmas here! I think it will be so cool to wake up Christmas morning to the warm sun! It's also my sister's 50th birthday and I would really love to be there for it, but I'll just have to deal with it I guess. As long as I'm here with Mitch & Levi then I will be happy!
I really am starting to wonder why I drink so much when I go out... I just don't stop until I'm completely done. Not that I'm slumped over in a corner choking on my own vomit, but more like I don't remember things and wake up in the morning with an insane hangover that takes all day to cure... I went out the other night to Three Nine Hotel for their monthly Fruit Fly event and Sy and his friend Dana picked me up and I had been drinking my concoction of Mandarin Vodka w/ Gatorade so I was pretty buzzed by the time I got there... then i met up with my new favorite, Rajah, who was there for his friends birthday and while there I had a couple of vodka/crans and some Jager Bombs and then we decided to go back to Waikiki and go to Fusions.
So real quick... this is my version of what happened when I woke up the next morning... I remember going to Three Nine Hotel and then after we got to Fusions I decided not to go in so I just went home and went to sleep like a good boy. This was my reality UNTIL I looked at my wrist and saw the huge F stamp on my wrist meaning clearly I went to Fusions that night. How could I not remember that whole part of my night? Not only that, but I remember spending all my cash at Three Nine so how did I pay to get into Fusions? And to make matters more confusing... I found $15 in my pocket! Did I make money that night? So many questions needing answers... but all in all I just need to stop drinking so much.
I'm still gonna be an alky, but maybe just a baby alky and not a full blown alky! So since then I have gone on an all vegetable/fruit/seafood/chicken diet and have stopped drinking soda... I feel like cutting red meats out of my diet will make me feel alot better. I ALMOST went on the Lemon/Cayenne Pepper/Maple Syrup/Water diet, but Mitch said it wasn't good for me and we could find a better method at the store. Plus I didn't find alot of persuasive reviews so I'll just switch up my diet for a while and see how that goes. It's been 5 days and I've only cheated a little bit (taco bell after beach today... i'm so weak!) and I do feel overall healthier!
I have to hurry and make a reservation for Thanksgiving dinner before everything gets booked! A little less traditional eating out for Thanksgiving, but living without a kitchen doesn't leave me much options... Gobble! Gobble!
Mitch has been in Maui for almost a week now and it is driving me crazy! He went over last week to open up three stores for Verizon and has been over there with the big wigs having a good ol' time despite being away from home... but I'm so proud of him for working so hard and getting ahead in the company. He comes home tomorrow, but unfortunately has to go back on Friday for two weeks! Apparently they'll be staying in a bomb condo and it's like the ones you see on the Real World! So jealous! Since he's been gone I've just been working everyday and making lots of money for Christmas! Tomorrow will be my 12th day in a row at work, but that's completely okay with me! Especially since I have Thanksgiving off! Waikiki never closes so we're gonna be open for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, etc. We're obligated to work two out of those threes days so I'll probably be scheduled for Christmas and New Years Eve, but I'll definitely be releasing those shifts, manipulating HotSchedules and paying if I have to just to have those days off!
It's gonna be so weird to not be home for the holidays, but I kind of want to be in Hawaii for my first Christmas here! I think it will be so cool to wake up Christmas morning to the warm sun! It's also my sister's 50th birthday and I would really love to be there for it, but I'll just have to deal with it I guess. As long as I'm here with Mitch & Levi then I will be happy!
I really am starting to wonder why I drink so much when I go out... I just don't stop until I'm completely done. Not that I'm slumped over in a corner choking on my own vomit, but more like I don't remember things and wake up in the morning with an insane hangover that takes all day to cure... I went out the other night to Three Nine Hotel for their monthly Fruit Fly event and Sy and his friend Dana picked me up and I had been drinking my concoction of Mandarin Vodka w/ Gatorade so I was pretty buzzed by the time I got there... then i met up with my new favorite, Rajah, who was there for his friends birthday and while there I had a couple of vodka/crans and some Jager Bombs and then we decided to go back to Waikiki and go to Fusions.
So real quick... this is my version of what happened when I woke up the next morning... I remember going to Three Nine Hotel and then after we got to Fusions I decided not to go in so I just went home and went to sleep like a good boy. This was my reality UNTIL I looked at my wrist and saw the huge F stamp on my wrist meaning clearly I went to Fusions that night. How could I not remember that whole part of my night? Not only that, but I remember spending all my cash at Three Nine so how did I pay to get into Fusions? And to make matters more confusing... I found $15 in my pocket! Did I make money that night? So many questions needing answers... but all in all I just need to stop drinking so much.
I'm still gonna be an alky, but maybe just a baby alky and not a full blown alky! So since then I have gone on an all vegetable/fruit/seafood/chicken diet and have stopped drinking soda... I feel like cutting red meats out of my diet will make me feel alot better. I ALMOST went on the Lemon/Cayenne Pepper/Maple Syrup/Water diet, but Mitch said it wasn't good for me and we could find a better method at the store. Plus I didn't find alot of persuasive reviews so I'll just switch up my diet for a while and see how that goes. It's been 5 days and I've only cheated a little bit (taco bell after beach today... i'm so weak!) and I do feel overall healthier!
I have to hurry and make a reservation for Thanksgiving dinner before everything gets booked! A little less traditional eating out for Thanksgiving, but living without a kitchen doesn't leave me much options... Gobble! Gobble!
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