passes for Comic Con next year
comics at Comic Con this year
a king sized bed
a trip to either Las Vegas or Portland or Seattle
hobbies
wrestling DVDs
a trip to Inn on the Beach
nice things
healthy food
a doctor visit
tickets to the Lion King stage play
WrestleMania
new shoes
new clothes
school
bills
rent
life

life sucks, man

Okay, so I just signed up for Twitter.  I was signed in.  I was uploading a picture.  It logged me out and told me to sign in again.  Now it won't let me.  It says my user name and password are wrong, but they aren't because not only was I already logged in, but it's the same user name and password I use for everything.  I try to do the "forgot password" option, and it tells me there's no such user name as "thesubverse."  Really?  Is that why I got my welcome email as thesubverse?  Is that why I started following people?  Is that why I just signed up as thesubverse not even five minutes ago?

Is it normally this buggy or is it just tonight.

EDIT: Aaaaaaaaand I go back to twitter.com and suddenly I'm logged in.  If this is a regular occurance, it's worse than myspace and fuck that shit man.

fuuuuuuuuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK

at least A missing link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/ida-fossil-missing-link

http://www.walyou.com/blog/2009/05/14/nes-portable/

someone needs to buy me this immediately

Anybody got plans for Memorial Day?  Three day weekend, beginning of summer, school's done for everybody... sounds like a good time to do something.  I wanna do something!  Let's do something!

or something

Apparently we have friends now.  There's been people in our house a lot the last two weeks.

Which is too bad at the moment cuz I wanna sleeeeeeeep.

Man, what a fucking fantastic weekend.  Absolutely no complaints.  Party, went to the zoo, finally got the Star Wars OT on DVD, got a new pillow.  I'm sad to see it end.  But school's done in just over 4 weeks.  Next awesome thing on the calendar is May 1st, Stephen Lynch at the Wiltern in LA.

How are all of YOU doing?  Tell me something good!  I'm in a great fucking mood this weekend.  I want to hear about what's good with you!  And if things AREN'T good, I want to know how we can make them good.  I refer to the chorus of the song I'm listening to:

Do something that's great
Time will never wait
Now's the chance to say
Life is gonna be extraordinary

I'm never going to Texas again.  Fuck this shitty ass state.

My grandpa was pulled out of the Mediterranean when the HMT Rohna was sunk by a German guided missile, one of the first ever first ever successful strikes of a remote controlled missile.  To this day, it's still the greatest loss of troops at sea in US history.  Counting the ship's crew and British soldiers, more men died on the Rohna than the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.  More than a thousand died, and around 600-700 were pulled out of the water (the exact numbers haven't been verified as this event still hasn't been acknowledged by the US government due to its severity).

This is why my grandpa is a fucking badass and my hero.  Not surprisingly, he was awarded the Purple Heart.

I get such incredible guilt the few times I ever spend money on myself.  It seems like every time I do, something happens and I need almost that exact same amount of money back to pay for something less selfish, less superfluous, and more essential.  I just got a new iPod, which I've been wanting for a really long time--and today we get a notice from our web hosting saying a large sum is due on Saturday.  If something can't be figured out, the Subverse may be gone (for the second fucking time) this weekend.  Also, WrestleMania is in just under two weeks.  That's a fuckton of money that we could really really really use right now.  I still don't know where the money for the hotel is going to come from.

This, among other reasons, is why I have such stress and fear about money.  I try to do it right and pay all my bills on time and in full (luckily I have fantastic credit because of this), but then I rarely ever have any spending money and the end of the month I always feel like a heart attack waiting to happen.  I thought 2008 was a tough year, but this one is shaping up to be twice as hard.  I'm worried about being able to make it through it.

I lost count of how many antacids I've had to take today.

I've been using the shit out of Livejournal lately.  Huh.  Not really sure why.

The last round was a success, so how about some more!

1.  What is your usual pizza topping order?  What can you not stand to have on a pizza?

2.  Had you been born the other sex, what were your parents considering naming you?

3.  What was your first job?

4.  Did/do you have to pay or are you getting a tax refund this year?

5.  Do you have hair between your knuckles and finger joints?  This is a really weird genetic thing.

6.  What is the most you've won playing the lottery/at the casino/friendly wager?

7.  What is your favorite physical attribute of whatever sex you're attracted to?  Non-physical?

8.  What was your most recent doctor visit about?  You can generalize or skip if you don't want to disclose.

9.  What is your favorite kind, type, or style of clothing on whatever sex you're attracted to?  Specific of general.

10.  What's the most recent song/album you downloaded?

All right guys, one month to go.  Friday, April 17, we're having a party for my birthday and you all better be there.  I'm going to start pestering you all about it, so don't ditch out on me!  Unlike most of our parties, this one is on a Friday, so even once it's over, you'll still have your whole weekend ahead of you.

Yesterday I had a really weird thought while looking at myself in the bathroom mirror--I thought about shaving off the beard.  I haven't done it in about for years, the last time being around when Episode 3 came out.  The reason for that is pretty simple: I don't really like the way I look clean shaven, and most people agree that I look better with facial hair.  For some reason I felt like doing it again though.  I mean, it'll grow back, right?  Don't know if I can pull it off/bring myself to do it, though.  Is it worth the risk?

Okay here's that entry I mentioned the other day that I wanted to make.

As you guys know by now, Ericka's gonna be in Europe for six and a half weeks this summer.  That'll be the longest we've been apart since I moved to California.  Now I know some of you are gonna be like OMG WUT R U GONNA DO R U GONNA BE OK ULL BE SO LONELY.  Pssh.  I'll be fine.

It's true, I could allow myself to get bored and depressed and end up not doing anything at all--I've been known to be self loathing like that.  I decided, however, that that's retarded.  See, Ericka's getting one hell of a traveling experience that she's been really needing, and this is the right time for her.  While she's gone, I've decided that while I can't do something as awesome as go to Europe, I CAN do things/go places for myself too.  There's no reason to sit here with a thumb up my ass when I could be doing something.

Basically what I'm getting at is that I'm gonna go on a trip or two while she's gone too.  I was invited by an internet friend I've had for 10 or so years to come visit in Portland.  That sounds like a hell of an idea, especially when I realized I have a ton of friends in the Portland area.  I've never been there and have always wanted to.  The only problem with that is the cost--flights, for some reason, are over 200 bucks.  So we'll see.  I'm also considering a road trip.  I've never been to San Francisco, and think that could be a lot of fun.  Going to a park like Yosemite or Sequoia would be awesome too.  And Las Vegas is always a hell of a time.  This is one of the negatives about being on the west coast--there's a limited number of road trip options since everything's so spread out.  But I'm 100% open to suggestions.  ESPECIALLY if someone would like to tag along.  That would make it even MORE fun.

Would anybody be interested in going to any of these places for a weekend or couple days this summer (or anywhere else, like I said I'm open to suggestions)?  Get away from life and do something different and not worry about shit?  I'd do the lion share of the driving because, well, I like driving long distances.  I'm just looking forward to doing something, and think it'd be nice to share it with someone.

So last Friday I finally got a desk at work.  OMG my first cubicle how exciting.  The best part is, it's in an office that's virtually empty.  Most of the cubes are vacant and the only people nearby are around a corner, so I rarely hear them and I'm left alone all day.  It's nice, I work best when I'm left alone and can work at my own pace.  Then today, some woman comes into the office, after being gone for around a month apparently.  Of course, she's in the cube RIGHT NEXT to me, which I'd been told I could use for storage.  It turns out this bitch is also a telemarketer for the company, so she's on the phone almost all day.  And she plays this one 80s/90s soft rock comp CD over and over incessantly all day.  I swear I heard What's Going On, Sweet Child Of Mine, and Summer of 69 about 15 times each today.  Fuck.

I'm going to make a larger, much more interesting post probably sometime in the next couple days.  I'm mainly posting this one just to remind myself to do it since I'm too lazy to do it now.  My brother is coming to Long Beach on Sunday, which is awesome cuz I haven't seen him in about 3 years, and he and Ericka have never met.  Should be a good time.

WrestleMania in 3 weeks!

EDIT: Oh shit I forget to mention, this evening I was coming back from picking up dinner and I parked on the street since Ericka was in our parking spot.  Walking up the sidewalk I hear this guy calling at me, but at first I couldn't see him cuz he was in the sun.  Then I realized it was a guy I worked with at Teledyne, my shipping job for a year until a month and a half ago.  Apparently he has a friend in the complex right next to us.  I gave him my number so we plan on hanging out sometime soon, so that's really cool.  I didn't get any closure from that place with the way they ended my assignment, and knowing there's a dude who I was really cool with there that's apparently often in the area and wants to hang out is awesome.  Plus I know it's silly, but the fact that I'm positive tomorrow he's going to mention that he saw me to a few of my former coworkers makes me feel a little better, and does help with the closure.  Assuming he actually does call me and comes to hang out at some point, I'll get even more.

These are just a bunch of basic, but interesting questions I thought up earlier today.  I thought it'd be fun to see what people's answers are.  Sometimes you know people less than you think you do!

1.  What time do you get up in the morning?

2.  What US states/Canadian provinces have you been to?  List them in order if possible.  What's the one state/province you most want to go to but haven't had a chance to yet?

3.  What's the oldest piece of clothing that's still in your regular rotation?

4.  What's your usual order at Subway?

5.  How old were you when you had your first kiss?  First time doing it?

6.  What was the first screen name you ever used on the internet?

7.  Who was your first favorite band/singer?

8.  What's the longest car ride, without breaks (excluding quick bathroom/drive through stops, 10 minutes or less), you've ever been on?

9.  What is favorite vegetable?  Least?

10.  What is your favorite physical feature on yourself?  Least?

I'll answer if someone else does!

seriously where the fuck is my paycheck I WANT TO EAT AND PAY MY BILLS

I really gotta stop eating tomatoes and tomato products so much.  Ugh.

I just found an old old old notebook full of notes and writing from when I was going to the U of A... and good lord is it embarrassing!  Some of the poetry I remember and I'm actually still all right with, but there was some that I'd completely forgotten about, and with good reason.  The worst is this page of stream of consciousness garbage that really shows just how depressed and retarded I was back then.

Right into the paper shredder with this crap!