right where we left off
went to my first ever family reunion for my father's side of the family this past weekend up in San Mateo...it was weird. i have a cousin who i haven't seen since he was less than a year old who's now 14, which means i haven't seen his mom in just as long. she and i were bestest friends when i was little. she's the closest aunt to me in age. she doesn't look the slightest bit different now, which is sort of scary :)
i forgot how annoying my cousin Jael is or how much i <3 the black half of my family. crackups, i tell ya. my cousin Bluto is back to being a fireman after a year as a medic in Oakland - his comment was this: "oh yeah, the mortality rate's actually gone *down* since i quit being a medic in Oakland. they're doin' alright now." heh. it's so weird how my little cousins all have kids now. so so weird. i guess that's because the last time i saw them, most of them were still under the age of 18 and now they're not...
we dragged my brother up there with us and he got food poisoning or something on the first day and was out to lunch until the day we had to leave. le suck. at least he had a good sound system to listen to relax-y music on. my uncle Benny's...er...media room...is insane. he has a projector, surround sound and a wall screen. we watched Superman Returns for the third time OMG. le melt. i can never go back to monitors and tvs! i want my own home theater.
things have been largely uneventful. i have written my manager 3 times asking her for more work (i'm supposed to take over every store we cover in the whole city) and she's written back with either an unintelligble reply that had nothing to do with what i wrote her about or not responded at all. i'm so confused. this company is the most scatterbrained corporation i have ever worked for. a real example of that whole "right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing" thing. i like the work, i'd just love to be assigned more than 4 hrs/wk of it, damnit. i want to be assigned a full work load so i can see whether i have enough time left in my work week to possibly ask for my old Lazy Acres job back a couple times a week. i miss being on my feet and moving all day, but most of all i miss customer service. i miss interacting with hundreds of people a day and working with a team.
at the end of the month, provided i get any sleep between now and then, we are going to the Electric Daisy Carnivale in LA. that should be sweet :) it'll be a good excuse to see Raul & Shelly and get out of the house - mingle and be social. god, i miss...people.
i can't wait for Day Watch to come out...COME OUT ALREADY. that and Sunshine. and Transformers, Die Hard and Ratatouille.
oh, i also started doing yoga which has been good. it keeps me stretching, if nothing else. i'm no good at these solitary endeavours. i keep wanting someone in the the same shape i'm in to do it with me. i've been doing it about 4 times a week tho, which is pretty good.
i forgot how annoying my cousin Jael is or how much i <3 the black half of my family. crackups, i tell ya. my cousin Bluto is back to being a fireman after a year as a medic in Oakland - his comment was this: "oh yeah, the mortality rate's actually gone *down* since i quit being a medic in Oakland. they're doin' alright now." heh. it's so weird how my little cousins all have kids now. so so weird. i guess that's because the last time i saw them, most of them were still under the age of 18 and now they're not...
we dragged my brother up there with us and he got food poisoning or something on the first day and was out to lunch until the day we had to leave. le suck. at least he had a good sound system to listen to relax-y music on. my uncle Benny's...er...media room...is insane. he has a projector, surround sound and a wall screen. we watched Superman Returns for the third time OMG. le melt. i can never go back to monitors and tvs! i want my own home theater.
things have been largely uneventful. i have written my manager 3 times asking her for more work (i'm supposed to take over every store we cover in the whole city) and she's written back with either an unintelligble reply that had nothing to do with what i wrote her about or not responded at all. i'm so confused. this company is the most scatterbrained corporation i have ever worked for. a real example of that whole "right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing" thing. i like the work, i'd just love to be assigned more than 4 hrs/wk of it, damnit. i want to be assigned a full work load so i can see whether i have enough time left in my work week to possibly ask for my old Lazy Acres job back a couple times a week. i miss being on my feet and moving all day, but most of all i miss customer service. i miss interacting with hundreds of people a day and working with a team.
at the end of the month, provided i get any sleep between now and then, we are going to the Electric Daisy Carnivale in LA. that should be sweet :) it'll be a good excuse to see Raul & Shelly and get out of the house - mingle and be social. god, i miss...people.
i can't wait for Day Watch to come out...COME OUT ALREADY. that and Sunshine. and Transformers, Die Hard and Ratatouille.
oh, i also started doing yoga which has been good. it keeps me stretching, if nothing else. i'm no good at these solitary endeavours. i keep wanting someone in the the same shape i'm in to do it with me. i've been doing it about 4 times a week tho, which is pretty good.