Amazing Day: Brother Graduaties. Family Reunion. Party in Bel Air. Party in Venice.
Today I woke up fairly early for my standards, about 8am, to go to my house in Redondo to ride with my mom, Mark, and my grandmother to go to my brothers fire academy graduation. I rode in Shui's car that he he left here for me to watch while he is on the east cost at some raw food prep school? I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it seemed cool when he was telling me about it a month ago. Honestly so much stuff happens so fast that sometimes you can only catch onto the feelings of things you know? Like I didn't totally catch the name of the place he was going, put I could easily look it up, but really i that what matters? Its not the name of the place but rather the feeling he convaied to me about the place, but I degrees... I got back into his car and honestly I was a bit scared, because last time I drove his car it stalled on my in the middle of an intersection... so I didn't drive it on the freeway I just took Lincolin the whole way home, which honestly was probably the worst decision I could have made. Stop-Go-Stop-Go is actually really hard on a car, and it would have been easier on the car just to go on the freeway! :) It kept nearly stalling and I have to really give it a lot of gas going from first, but anyways, I made it home in about 30 minutes flat which is good to know it takes that long on the surface streets.
So, I get home and say hello to my mom, my grandmother, and Mark. I then call my dad and give him some detailed directions on how to get to the graduation, which he follows well. Honestly if I was my dad listening to me give myself directions I wouldn't have got there...See its not that my directions were bad, on the contrare they were perfect, but thats just the thing, I have grown SO accustomed to my iphone telling me exactly where to turn, how much I have to go before I turn etc, that I probably would have missed the small street to turn on...or maybe not. I further degrees, back to the story.
So about 10-20 minutes after I arrive me, my mom, my grandmother, and Mark all get in the car and go to the graduation. It was actually pretty cool, they did some cool things like put out a car fire, scale down the tower and put out some other fires, a Captain was retiring and he gave a good speech, it made me think.
I was with my dad most of the time and after everything was over him and I hung out for awhile because my brother had to stay behind and clean and things. So my dad and I took a car ride down to my place here in Venice. I showed him my apartment, and he dug it. I showed him all the places I hang out in SM and Venice. I also took him to some touristy spots like the canals and places like that.
Then we went back to Redondo to meet my brother, they wanted to go to a bar to eat lunch so I said I would stay at home, they went and came back saying that the bar was no good and wanted to know if I wanted to go with them to this place in South Redondo, The Rivera i think it was called, a local mexican/sea food spot there in hidden S.Redondo. I liked the atmosphere there, honestly it was somewhat refreshing to experience a main stream nice working class restaurant again it reminded me of my childhood, of course I didn't eat anything except a side of guacamole. As a side note, I really don't understand people who say that eating fish is OK, as if fish flesh was somehow less flesh than the more popular cow flesh? As if. What makes fish flesh so different? Flesh is flesh no matter how you cut it you are eating a dead animal.
Again I degrees. My brother and father proceeded to enjoy their meal which made me happy. Afterwards we went down to the bluff and talked for a bit, just the three of us. Honestly I can't remember the last time that me, my brother, and I just talked casually together. Honestly it hasn't happened much in my whole life, I think I can count the times on my two hands.
We talked and it was nice, I felt a sense of peace and calm. The three of us together, I felt so whole, and safe. Afterwards me my brother and my dad went back to my moms place in Redondo and my brother talked to my dad for awhile downstairs as I talked with my mother and grandmother upstairs about my girlfriend. Never underestimate the power of your mother to give you a good perspective on your love life, and your grandmother! I listened to their new perspective on A for a bit, taking it in objectively... Their advice, whatever it was, isn't really the point, again the point was their feelings and energy they were projecting, they wanted me to feel safe, happy, loved, good. These are good things. The question they were basically asking is DO I feel these things when with her? I really like what my mom said "You can have a relationship in which it is good all the time." I really appreciate that, honestly that is only something that my mom is capable of understanding. Of ALL the people in my life, including my friends, my mom is probably the only one who really understands the truth to that statement, she lives it, and I have seen her live it my whole life.
Anyways, back to my day story, today was long. After that I told my dad goodbye and shortly after told my grandmother, brother, and mother goodbye and went home, this time I was a bit less scared in the car and took the freeway, easily glided into my parking spot in the back, and locked the car, I probably won't use that car again...
I got home and the -second- I got home A was like "Ready to go now?" I said, sure, and I was I was already pretty dressed up because of the graduation and felt good enough about my appearance to make an appearance at our friends wedding reception up in Bel Air. I had already texted her about going, so It wasn't a surprise. Anyways, we drove there and it was good, I kinda told her about my day, but honestly its going to take days for the first part of this day to sink in. I got the DL from my Dad, brother, mother, and grandmother, psychically I'm going to be processing for a couple days.
We went to the wedding reception and it was rocking. I enjoyed myself. Picked up DB and took him back home with us went to his house hung out for awhile then went to another party in Venice, nearby (everything is nearby in Venice). It was rockin, a small cover but the people were very conscious and the music good, A seemed to be really enjoying herself but at this point I was pretty tired and just sat on the couch. Honestly I wasn't really feeling all that well there the energy was off, I think most of the people were on some sort of drug, and that always just makes me feel weird, when a lot of people are on drugs it really messes with the energy of a place and makes me get knots in my stomach. I'm pretty taped into my intuition these days and told A that I was going to walk home, I didn't even say goodbye to anyone I just left and walked home. OH they joys of living in Venice, I love it. it was only like a 4 block walk and the night was warm, just enough to make me shake off the feeling from the party and get my whits about me. I got home to find the house quiet and cozy, my laptop was nearby the couch so I decided to pick it up and do something I have not done in forever, and that is, write about my day.
I'm currently reading a book about writing and want to start writing every day again. Its really good for me and honestly I want to get good at it for my blog, and honestly journaling is one of the best things you can do for yourself, all the greats keep and kept journals.
I'm also reading a book on intuition, can you tell?
Does anyone read this?...
Till next time...-W
So, I get home and say hello to my mom, my grandmother, and Mark. I then call my dad and give him some detailed directions on how to get to the graduation, which he follows well. Honestly if I was my dad listening to me give myself directions I wouldn't have got there...See its not that my directions were bad, on the contrare they were perfect, but thats just the thing, I have grown SO accustomed to my iphone telling me exactly where to turn, how much I have to go before I turn etc, that I probably would have missed the small street to turn on...or maybe not. I further degrees, back to the story.
So about 10-20 minutes after I arrive me, my mom, my grandmother, and Mark all get in the car and go to the graduation. It was actually pretty cool, they did some cool things like put out a car fire, scale down the tower and put out some other fires, a Captain was retiring and he gave a good speech, it made me think.
I was with my dad most of the time and after everything was over him and I hung out for awhile because my brother had to stay behind and clean and things. So my dad and I took a car ride down to my place here in Venice. I showed him my apartment, and he dug it. I showed him all the places I hang out in SM and Venice. I also took him to some touristy spots like the canals and places like that.
Then we went back to Redondo to meet my brother, they wanted to go to a bar to eat lunch so I said I would stay at home, they went and came back saying that the bar was no good and wanted to know if I wanted to go with them to this place in South Redondo, The Rivera i think it was called, a local mexican/sea food spot there in hidden S.Redondo. I liked the atmosphere there, honestly it was somewhat refreshing to experience a main stream nice working class restaurant again it reminded me of my childhood, of course I didn't eat anything except a side of guacamole. As a side note, I really don't understand people who say that eating fish is OK, as if fish flesh was somehow less flesh than the more popular cow flesh? As if. What makes fish flesh so different? Flesh is flesh no matter how you cut it you are eating a dead animal.
Again I degrees. My brother and father proceeded to enjoy their meal which made me happy. Afterwards we went down to the bluff and talked for a bit, just the three of us. Honestly I can't remember the last time that me, my brother, and I just talked casually together. Honestly it hasn't happened much in my whole life, I think I can count the times on my two hands.
We talked and it was nice, I felt a sense of peace and calm. The three of us together, I felt so whole, and safe. Afterwards me my brother and my dad went back to my moms place in Redondo and my brother talked to my dad for awhile downstairs as I talked with my mother and grandmother upstairs about my girlfriend. Never underestimate the power of your mother to give you a good perspective on your love life, and your grandmother! I listened to their new perspective on A for a bit, taking it in objectively... Their advice, whatever it was, isn't really the point, again the point was their feelings and energy they were projecting, they wanted me to feel safe, happy, loved, good. These are good things. The question they were basically asking is DO I feel these things when with her? I really like what my mom said "You can have a relationship in which it is good all the time." I really appreciate that, honestly that is only something that my mom is capable of understanding. Of ALL the people in my life, including my friends, my mom is probably the only one who really understands the truth to that statement, she lives it, and I have seen her live it my whole life.
Anyways, back to my day story, today was long. After that I told my dad goodbye and shortly after told my grandmother, brother, and mother goodbye and went home, this time I was a bit less scared in the car and took the freeway, easily glided into my parking spot in the back, and locked the car, I probably won't use that car again...
I got home and the -second- I got home A was like "Ready to go now?" I said, sure, and I was I was already pretty dressed up because of the graduation and felt good enough about my appearance to make an appearance at our friends wedding reception up in Bel Air. I had already texted her about going, so It wasn't a surprise. Anyways, we drove there and it was good, I kinda told her about my day, but honestly its going to take days for the first part of this day to sink in. I got the DL from my Dad, brother, mother, and grandmother, psychically I'm going to be processing for a couple days.
We went to the wedding reception and it was rocking. I enjoyed myself. Picked up DB and took him back home with us went to his house hung out for awhile then went to another party in Venice, nearby (everything is nearby in Venice). It was rockin, a small cover but the people were very conscious and the music good, A seemed to be really enjoying herself but at this point I was pretty tired and just sat on the couch. Honestly I wasn't really feeling all that well there the energy was off, I think most of the people were on some sort of drug, and that always just makes me feel weird, when a lot of people are on drugs it really messes with the energy of a place and makes me get knots in my stomach. I'm pretty taped into my intuition these days and told A that I was going to walk home, I didn't even say goodbye to anyone I just left and walked home. OH they joys of living in Venice, I love it. it was only like a 4 block walk and the night was warm, just enough to make me shake off the feeling from the party and get my whits about me. I got home to find the house quiet and cozy, my laptop was nearby the couch so I decided to pick it up and do something I have not done in forever, and that is, write about my day.
I'm currently reading a book about writing and want to start writing every day again. Its really good for me and honestly I want to get good at it for my blog, and honestly journaling is one of the best things you can do for yourself, all the greats keep and kept journals.
I'm also reading a book on intuition, can you tell?
Does anyone read this?...
Till next time...-W