I'm updating. It's shocking, I know.
I turned 26 last week. Thanks for all of the birthday wishes. I spent the day in Chinatown with igottapie and then having dinner with my parents. Two days later, C & I holed ourselves up in a cabin in the mountains for the weekend and spent many hours swimming in the lake and watching bad 90s movies. It was really good to get out of the city for a tiny bit. There are photos here.
Because we're both broke and gas is ridiculous, we've been trying to do cheap/free things around town and so far we've been pretty successful in doing awesome things and spending awesome time together. We went to the LA Zoo the weekend before last - it's about five minutes from my place and saw some greatness of the animal persuasion. You can see photos here.
My brother's out of prison. He's trying to get into a post-parole program.
Des & I have been busy acquiring new furniture/settling into our new apartment. It's looking fucking cute and we're almost done with it. I really like it there.
I'm trying to buy more fresh food so I'm more likely to eat it before it gets bad. For awhile, I was throwing out a LOT of food that I didn't eat before it got bad. I'm trying to cook more. Basically I'm trying to find ways to get me to eat. igottapie & I have been cooking together a lot and that helps but I still need to work on setting small habits for myself because as of now, I am pretty much only eating every other day (i.e. when I see C and we cook together). He leaves for school in three weeks. I'm both terrified and excited about not eating after he leaves.
I started going to the gym regularly again with my friend Eric. It feels good when I'm there but afterward I'm literally RAVENOUS and have to resist the urge (not that I have the money to do this but if I did..) to pull over at every food establishment on my way home to binge. I've been coping with this by making sure C comes over afterward and we make a big ass dinner. I've also been resisting the urge to go to the gym every day (right now, I'm at about every other day not counting weekends) and it's tough but I'm trying to fill up my time after work in other productive ways.
It's a constant struggle. It really fucking is.
And now I'll leave you with quite possibly the cutest photo of Ashes to ever exist.
