hello this is my new music video for the song breskva candy:
filmed and edited by christina wallace all on a phone camera:
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
hackin it
so i used to work for this small company which sold healthcare equipment, everything from tea to advanced expensive machines for measuring a fetal heartbeat.
the woman i worked for was kinda insane and really mean. she made people cry on a daily routine and ended up firing me on new years eve.
i still have the password to her website (i mostly did graphic design for the company website while i worked there) and i just went on to see if it still works, almost a year and a half later.
i uploaded a picture of an old hobo giving the finger while smoking a cigar as one of the front pages to her website, but then removed it....cause she is the sort of lady who would spend lots of money trying to track where it came from in order to get me punished.
next time i am at a computer that cannot be traced back to me i will definitely be returning to her site.
the woman i worked for was kinda insane and really mean. she made people cry on a daily routine and ended up firing me on new years eve.
i still have the password to her website (i mostly did graphic design for the company website while i worked there) and i just went on to see if it still works, almost a year and a half later.
i uploaded a picture of an old hobo giving the finger while smoking a cigar as one of the front pages to her website, but then removed it....cause she is the sort of lady who would spend lots of money trying to track where it came from in order to get me punished.
next time i am at a computer that cannot be traced back to me i will definitely be returning to her site.
Monday, April 13, 2009
blazers
i just watched the portland trailblazers play some other team and they killed the other team. it was pretty fun to hangout at a nearby place and watch the game with my brother and drink some beer. the beer was some weird kind i have never had and it was only 1 dollar a glass which seems like a good deal. cheaper than soda at most restaurants.
the last few weeks have been totally uneventful but truly divinely perfect. i wake up whenever i want, make delicious food all day long and eat it, hang out with the sexiest lady i have ever known and make love all the time. we just sit around playing games (pente, chess, boggle, mario kart, tetris, risk, jamb) and eating and sleeping and having a wonderful life. this is what its supposed to be. i am not meant to have a job and work 40 hours a week. life is perfect and will remain so for at least another couple months.
im very happy now. i love my life :)
the last few weeks have been totally uneventful but truly divinely perfect. i wake up whenever i want, make delicious food all day long and eat it, hang out with the sexiest lady i have ever known and make love all the time. we just sit around playing games (pente, chess, boggle, mario kart, tetris, risk, jamb) and eating and sleeping and having a wonderful life. this is what its supposed to be. i am not meant to have a job and work 40 hours a week. life is perfect and will remain so for at least another couple months.
im very happy now. i love my life :)
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
San Francisco, California
I was invited to go to San Francisco along with Kristina by our friend Natalie. We drove her car 10 hours on Wednesday from Portland. It was a very nice start to our trip, we stopped at in-n-out and ate some delicious grilled cheese and animal fries!
We finally arrived at the house of this couple and their friend who were putting us up to sleep on their floor around 10:30 or 11pm. We played a board game called apples to apples which was so fun and I definitely want a copy of it.
Our hosts were friends of Natalie. The couple were really nice, Natasha and Bryan. The guy is really into Pokemon and had all kinds of video games and comics laying around. He was awkward but probably the kindest person we met the whole time. Their roommate was this guy named Tylan...I think...neither Kristina nor I were ever exactly sure what his name was.
We went to bed sort of late and conversely woke up pretty late, which turned out to be a common theme on this trip. We got up and walked to the Castro, which is the gay district of San Francisco where they filmed Milk and also where the nearest post office was at. We had to find one in order so that Natalie could overnight a copy of her door key back to her roommates, because she locked a cat in her room.
We walked all the way up a huge hill and then down it, to get to the Castro, then Natalie realized she forgot the key so we walked all the way back up and down the hill to get back to the house we were staying at. (Later someone showed us a way to get there without crossing over the huge hill.) We decided to drive to our next destination, Boogaloo. This is a delicious diner that I had been to twice before and remembered loving the food, so I insisted that we go. I only remembered that it was near a coffee shop that had a communist looking flag for a sign, which was enough information to get us directions.
We walked to Dolores Park and got ice cream and then walked all over the Mission district trying to refind the car which we lost. We then drove back to their house and relaxed after a tiring day. Unfortunatley we were stationed in the living room and we all ended up staying up late watching the Tyra show on Oxygyn. It felt like a big waste of time to me, because we were doing it in San Francisco but the whole trip was very relaxing and not intended to be doing so much stuff.
The next morning was Friday the 13th, which ended up being a pretty crazy and eventful one. We left the house with Natalie and Natasha and walked to a cute little Tea place, where old ladies serve tea and tiny sandwiches or crumpets and everything else that is eaten at tea cozies. But it was really expensive and felt like a waste of money to me, so we left and went downtown to eat a falafel sandwich, which was so good. I kept spitting pieces of french fries to this hungry pigeon and then we left to check out Haight and Ashbury.
Haight and Ashbury was cool because of all the cute shops and weird people walking around, but we weren't really trying to spend too much money, so we just wandered around until Amoeba, where I spent more than I should have on some of Montreal and Serge Gainsborg records and a cd. Then we met up with the other roommates and walked to the incredibly beautiful Golden Gate Park where we were offered various drugs several times. We setup a sleeping bag near a huge statue of Grover Cleveland and some religious looking statue, where we proceeded to take magical mushrooms. We just laid there and looked up in the clouds and wandered around while a huge drum circle played our background music.
We walked from Haight to their house, which was the most epic journey and included some of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. We saw views of the entire city from high upon the hills, overlooking the whole bay. We also walked through a very long stretch where we passed crazy spectacle after spectacle, all while tripping on the magic fungus. The scariest part was when some man was peeing in broad daylight for everyone to see. The funniest part was when some bike rider stopped in front of us and asked us if we knew the way to marshmallow fields and then left us before waiting for a response.
Once we finally got back to their house we played with their kitten for awhile and then Bryan started playing the video game Katamari Damacy, which started to really really freak me out. I began to believe that the game was telling me to get a hotel and I was very conscious of the people in that house wanting me to leave their house. I told Kristina we should go on a walk and then after taking a little too long I told her we had to leave now and we sort of abruptly left. We just started walking and eventually came to the Castro. We walked back and forth over this 3 block area and sat on a bench for a long time. Finally we went into this really packed pizza place called Escape from New York. The only open spot was a table next to another huge table and the wall, so we had to sit apart from one another, next to this table full of bald gay men who kept chanting "Dick, Dick, Dick". I was really starting to freak out in there and told Kristina we had to leave. We walked back to the roommates house and decided that we for sure had to get a hotel that night. I finally felt better and we walked inside and booked a hotel at the Palace.
The Palace is the oldest hotel in San Francisco, it was rebuilt once after the great Earthquake of 1906 and was so beautiful and fancy. It was the first hotel listed on-line when we booked a hotel and Kristina offered to pay for the luxurious 5-star hotel in San Francisco (of Montreal lyric). We pretended to be snobby rich people and I even flirted with the idea of calling the concierge and demanding a softer bathrobe, but was not brave enough to do. I did however walk down the hallway to the ice machine wearing only the bathrobe, acting like a rich old snob. We took a bath and drank whiskey and then around 2am tried to find a 24-hour diner. We found an intersection with 3 of them and chose the cutest one, which had the most disgusting food, sadly.
We went back to the hotel and fell asleep watching TV. In the morning we left our stuff with the front desk so that we could travel freely to the Museum of Modern Art, which had some lame exhibit from this German guy. The best part was seeing Marcel Duchamp's urinal statue. We also ate at this amazingly delicious Indian buffet which was pretty expensive but totally worth it.
Then we walked through Chinatown and bought the cutest orange shiny lantern and a hello kitty Rubicks cube. Those were the only real souvenirs we bought, also a shot glass and some postcards. We also walked through Russian hill and little Italy. We went to San Francisco Art Institute and saw a view from high above the city and got some nice pictures of Alcatraz.
We parted ways with Natalie and met my friend Raina Blair who I met in my previous trips to San Francisco. She let Kristina use her ID to get into the bar we went to and we ended up having lots of drinks and meeting some nice people and dancing to old R&B and soul music. It was so much fun dancing slow with Kristina, cause we usually are dancing to rap music or grinding, but I made her just slow dance with me and spin around.
We forgot our bag of souvenirs but ran back and were able to get them. We ate at this crappy little pizza place and then took a cab back to the house we stayed at. We woke up the next day around 1pm. Everyone there had played King's Cup and got really drunk so they slept in as well. This one guy who was visiting them was snoring so loud that he sounded like a bulldog terrorizing a pillow or something, it made me crack up while I was trying to sleep.
We all went to this vegan restaurant called Weird Fish. I had some really good biscuits and gravy and Kristina had seitan fish and chips which left something to be expected. Afterwards we drove straight home, stopping only for gas, burger kind, and del taco. The ride home was incredibly scary at moments when I drove through thick fog, rain, darkness, and other scariness, also when Kristina turned off the headlights while driving 90 mph! It felt really good to get home and sleep in my own bed.
Altogether it was one of the best trips I have been on and San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been in, maybe the most beautiful. The people all over the city that I met, whether they were working in shops, working in the restaurants, trying to sell me drugs in the park, or just walking their dogs, were all so friendly and nice. I hope that someday I can live there, I just don't see how it could happen anytime soon. Portland reminds me of SF in many ways, but is incredibly cheaper. Anyone who reads through all of this, congratulations, I am impressed with your fortitude!
We finally arrived at the house of this couple and their friend who were putting us up to sleep on their floor around 10:30 or 11pm. We played a board game called apples to apples which was so fun and I definitely want a copy of it.
Our hosts were friends of Natalie. The couple were really nice, Natasha and Bryan. The guy is really into Pokemon and had all kinds of video games and comics laying around. He was awkward but probably the kindest person we met the whole time. Their roommate was this guy named Tylan...I think...neither Kristina nor I were ever exactly sure what his name was.
We went to bed sort of late and conversely woke up pretty late, which turned out to be a common theme on this trip. We got up and walked to the Castro, which is the gay district of San Francisco where they filmed Milk and also where the nearest post office was at. We had to find one in order so that Natalie could overnight a copy of her door key back to her roommates, because she locked a cat in her room.
We walked all the way up a huge hill and then down it, to get to the Castro, then Natalie realized she forgot the key so we walked all the way back up and down the hill to get back to the house we were staying at. (Later someone showed us a way to get there without crossing over the huge hill.) We decided to drive to our next destination, Boogaloo. This is a delicious diner that I had been to twice before and remembered loving the food, so I insisted that we go. I only remembered that it was near a coffee shop that had a communist looking flag for a sign, which was enough information to get us directions.
We walked to Dolores Park and got ice cream and then walked all over the Mission district trying to refind the car which we lost. We then drove back to their house and relaxed after a tiring day. Unfortunatley we were stationed in the living room and we all ended up staying up late watching the Tyra show on Oxygyn. It felt like a big waste of time to me, because we were doing it in San Francisco but the whole trip was very relaxing and not intended to be doing so much stuff.
The next morning was Friday the 13th, which ended up being a pretty crazy and eventful one. We left the house with Natalie and Natasha and walked to a cute little Tea place, where old ladies serve tea and tiny sandwiches or crumpets and everything else that is eaten at tea cozies. But it was really expensive and felt like a waste of money to me, so we left and went downtown to eat a falafel sandwich, which was so good. I kept spitting pieces of french fries to this hungry pigeon and then we left to check out Haight and Ashbury.
Haight and Ashbury was cool because of all the cute shops and weird people walking around, but we weren't really trying to spend too much money, so we just wandered around until Amoeba, where I spent more than I should have on some of Montreal and Serge Gainsborg records and a cd. Then we met up with the other roommates and walked to the incredibly beautiful Golden Gate Park where we were offered various drugs several times. We setup a sleeping bag near a huge statue of Grover Cleveland and some religious looking statue, where we proceeded to take magical mushrooms. We just laid there and looked up in the clouds and wandered around while a huge drum circle played our background music.
We walked from Haight to their house, which was the most epic journey and included some of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. We saw views of the entire city from high upon the hills, overlooking the whole bay. We also walked through a very long stretch where we passed crazy spectacle after spectacle, all while tripping on the magic fungus. The scariest part was when some man was peeing in broad daylight for everyone to see. The funniest part was when some bike rider stopped in front of us and asked us if we knew the way to marshmallow fields and then left us before waiting for a response.
Once we finally got back to their house we played with their kitten for awhile and then Bryan started playing the video game Katamari Damacy, which started to really really freak me out. I began to believe that the game was telling me to get a hotel and I was very conscious of the people in that house wanting me to leave their house. I told Kristina we should go on a walk and then after taking a little too long I told her we had to leave now and we sort of abruptly left. We just started walking and eventually came to the Castro. We walked back and forth over this 3 block area and sat on a bench for a long time. Finally we went into this really packed pizza place called Escape from New York. The only open spot was a table next to another huge table and the wall, so we had to sit apart from one another, next to this table full of bald gay men who kept chanting "Dick, Dick, Dick". I was really starting to freak out in there and told Kristina we had to leave. We walked back to the roommates house and decided that we for sure had to get a hotel that night. I finally felt better and we walked inside and booked a hotel at the Palace.
The Palace is the oldest hotel in San Francisco, it was rebuilt once after the great Earthquake of 1906 and was so beautiful and fancy. It was the first hotel listed on-line when we booked a hotel and Kristina offered to pay for the luxurious 5-star hotel in San Francisco (of Montreal lyric). We pretended to be snobby rich people and I even flirted with the idea of calling the concierge and demanding a softer bathrobe, but was not brave enough to do. I did however walk down the hallway to the ice machine wearing only the bathrobe, acting like a rich old snob. We took a bath and drank whiskey and then around 2am tried to find a 24-hour diner. We found an intersection with 3 of them and chose the cutest one, which had the most disgusting food, sadly.
We went back to the hotel and fell asleep watching TV. In the morning we left our stuff with the front desk so that we could travel freely to the Museum of Modern Art, which had some lame exhibit from this German guy. The best part was seeing Marcel Duchamp's urinal statue. We also ate at this amazingly delicious Indian buffet which was pretty expensive but totally worth it.
Then we walked through Chinatown and bought the cutest orange shiny lantern and a hello kitty Rubicks cube. Those were the only real souvenirs we bought, also a shot glass and some postcards. We also walked through Russian hill and little Italy. We went to San Francisco Art Institute and saw a view from high above the city and got some nice pictures of Alcatraz.
We parted ways with Natalie and met my friend Raina Blair who I met in my previous trips to San Francisco. She let Kristina use her ID to get into the bar we went to and we ended up having lots of drinks and meeting some nice people and dancing to old R&B and soul music. It was so much fun dancing slow with Kristina, cause we usually are dancing to rap music or grinding, but I made her just slow dance with me and spin around.
We forgot our bag of souvenirs but ran back and were able to get them. We ate at this crappy little pizza place and then took a cab back to the house we stayed at. We woke up the next day around 1pm. Everyone there had played King's Cup and got really drunk so they slept in as well. This one guy who was visiting them was snoring so loud that he sounded like a bulldog terrorizing a pillow or something, it made me crack up while I was trying to sleep.
We all went to this vegan restaurant called Weird Fish. I had some really good biscuits and gravy and Kristina had seitan fish and chips which left something to be expected. Afterwards we drove straight home, stopping only for gas, burger kind, and del taco. The ride home was incredibly scary at moments when I drove through thick fog, rain, darkness, and other scariness, also when Kristina turned off the headlights while driving 90 mph! It felt really good to get home and sleep in my own bed.
Altogether it was one of the best trips I have been on and San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been in, maybe the most beautiful. The people all over the city that I met, whether they were working in shops, working in the restaurants, trying to sell me drugs in the park, or just walking their dogs, were all so friendly and nice. I hope that someday I can live there, I just don't see how it could happen anytime soon. Portland reminds me of SF in many ways, but is incredibly cheaper. Anyone who reads through all of this, congratulations, I am impressed with your fortitude!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
travel = eating
today i am writing from san francisco. today i woke up on someone's floor and then ate a bunch of food.
i ate vegetable tempura, sushi, a few licks of roasted banana ice cream, hash browns, 2 eggs over-medim, 4 slices of sourdough toast, a biscit covered in gravy and a soy mocha.
i ate vegetable tempura, sushi, a few licks of roasted banana ice cream, hash browns, 2 eggs over-medim, 4 slices of sourdough toast, a biscit covered in gravy and a soy mocha.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
hike
today me and kristina went on a hike in washington park.
i woke up around 8am. i dont know how, but it happened. i laid in bed until 9:15am, sleeping and waking back up.
i made eggs and toast for breakfast and tried to get kristina to get out of bed, that made her very upset with me. i made sandwiches and an alcoholic beverage called firewhiskey but has no whiskey. and i packed some water and a few chocolates. we left the house around 10:15am and got off at the lloyd center and jumped on the light rail which took us out to the zoo and washington park. we walked all the way to the japanese gardens but decided it was not worth 6 dollars to see it at this time of year. later we will return when the garden is in full bloom. we ate and drank and enjoyed the beautiful fresh air. now we are at the library. tonight we are going to watch season 3 of gilmore girls! woohoo!
i woke up around 8am. i dont know how, but it happened. i laid in bed until 9:15am, sleeping and waking back up.
i made eggs and toast for breakfast and tried to get kristina to get out of bed, that made her very upset with me. i made sandwiches and an alcoholic beverage called firewhiskey but has no whiskey. and i packed some water and a few chocolates. we left the house around 10:15am and got off at the lloyd center and jumped on the light rail which took us out to the zoo and washington park. we walked all the way to the japanese gardens but decided it was not worth 6 dollars to see it at this time of year. later we will return when the garden is in full bloom. we ate and drank and enjoyed the beautiful fresh air. now we are at the library. tonight we are going to watch season 3 of gilmore girls! woohoo!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
day off
i just woke up at 4pm because 3 car alarms were going off at the same time! yesterday me and kristina had the day off (i actually have every day off) and we woke up around 2pm. after waking up and eatong breakfast we went to the movie theatre and watched coraline in 3d and the international.
coraline was a great story and so cool to watch, especially in 3d. its kind of like alice in wonderland meets beetlejuice. with claymation stop motion animation. my favorite part was either the cat or the kangaroo circus mice.
the second movie was the international which was altogether slow and boring with only the ending going for it. the best part is how the ending of the movie shows what life is really like. and kristina's favorite part is the aged italian hitman casually uttering "graci" to clive owen after he kills the evil banker.
on the way home we stopped to get chili, pizza, soda, cookies and ice cream. what else does anyone need, ever?
coraline was a great story and so cool to watch, especially in 3d. its kind of like alice in wonderland meets beetlejuice. with claymation stop motion animation. my favorite part was either the cat or the kangaroo circus mice.
the second movie was the international which was altogether slow and boring with only the ending going for it. the best part is how the ending of the movie shows what life is really like. and kristina's favorite part is the aged italian hitman casually uttering "graci" to clive owen after he kills the evil banker.
on the way home we stopped to get chili, pizza, soda, cookies and ice cream. what else does anyone need, ever?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
doin nothin
woke up around 2:45pm, went online and read many websites, watched conan o brian reruns online and ate 3 eggs hash browns and toast.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
subjects
Yesterday was my little brother Sean's birthday. He came over to my house around 1pm and I made him some hash browns with fake meat and onions and some toast. Then we played Wii for awhile and just chilled out and hung around.
Then we met downtown and met Kristina and some other friends. We just walked around shopping, it was fun even though I didn't buy anything. Sean had to take a shower so he went home early and then we walked to Natalie's house which was like 30 minutes walking distance, my legs are a little tired still.
There we played with a white Cat named Malkovich named after the actor. Natalie then drove us all to Sean's house where a show was underway. Sean was drinking some whiskey someone gave him for his birthday. He was mildly drunk. We all played Katamari Damacy which was pretty fun. At one point Sean was downstairs alone with this girl he had mentioned a desire to makeout with and Kristina and I tried to guard the entrance to downstairs, but no one wanted down. Eventually I found out that nothing happened, but it was fun to try to help.
Kristina and I got home around 1am I think, which to us is very early so we ate some cheese and tofurkey sandwiches and played around and just talked for a long time. Its crazy how I can talk to her about anything, and she understands me so well that certain things I can't even explain in words she just knows what I mean. I feel very fortunate for that!
Some people I can't talk to, I just feel so weird or awkward at times in conversations. And sometimes I want to talk about weird or crazy subjects which require the other person to know of all these other weird or crazy subjects we have discussed previously.
Then we met downtown and met Kristina and some other friends. We just walked around shopping, it was fun even though I didn't buy anything. Sean had to take a shower so he went home early and then we walked to Natalie's house which was like 30 minutes walking distance, my legs are a little tired still.
There we played with a white Cat named Malkovich named after the actor. Natalie then drove us all to Sean's house where a show was underway. Sean was drinking some whiskey someone gave him for his birthday. He was mildly drunk. We all played Katamari Damacy which was pretty fun. At one point Sean was downstairs alone with this girl he had mentioned a desire to makeout with and Kristina and I tried to guard the entrance to downstairs, but no one wanted down. Eventually I found out that nothing happened, but it was fun to try to help.
Kristina and I got home around 1am I think, which to us is very early so we ate some cheese and tofurkey sandwiches and played around and just talked for a long time. Its crazy how I can talk to her about anything, and she understands me so well that certain things I can't even explain in words she just knows what I mean. I feel very fortunate for that!
Some people I can't talk to, I just feel so weird or awkward at times in conversations. And sometimes I want to talk about weird or crazy subjects which require the other person to know of all these other weird or crazy subjects we have discussed previously.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
pacman
lately me and kristina have been playing lots of pac-man on the wii. each of the four ghosts have their own personality. the red one aka shadow aka speedy aka the devil is the worst. he is always breathing down your neck.
the pink one is a sneak. he is always teaming up with red to come at you from two sides. the orange one is stupid most of the time but occasionally will smarten up in certain stages. the blue one is just a dumbass plain and simple.
the high score is somewhere in the 77 thousand range right now, but i think it is close to being broken.
the pink one is a sneak. he is always teaming up with red to come at you from two sides. the orange one is stupid most of the time but occasionally will smarten up in certain stages. the blue one is just a dumbass plain and simple.
the high score is somewhere in the 77 thousand range right now, but i think it is close to being broken.
Monday, January 26, 2009
as toad on standard s bike
last night i stayed up late...until 5am! tonight i would like to go to sleep earlier. here is my list of goals for tomorrow/this week:
go to the bank and discuss my savings account with someone
finally mop the kitchen and bathroom floors
vacuum
go downtown to the library to pick up the graduate and drop off the other dvds
finish a drawing to cover up the bare wall
make sure i get unemployment insurance for this week and part of last week if possible
study my bosnian study guides
read more of my book
write more in my notebook (maybe go to fuel cafe or some other cafe on alberta)
make pasta sauce from scratch
try making vegan Caesar dressing again with less honey mustard
beat all the cups in mario kart wii on 150CC
go to the bank and discuss my savings account with someone
finally mop the kitchen and bathroom floors
vacuum
go downtown to the library to pick up the graduate and drop off the other dvds
finish a drawing to cover up the bare wall
make sure i get unemployment insurance for this week and part of last week if possible
study my bosnian study guides
read more of my book
write more in my notebook (maybe go to fuel cafe or some other cafe on alberta)
make pasta sauce from scratch
try making vegan Caesar dressing again with less honey mustard
beat all the cups in mario kart wii on 150CC
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Hobo Tip of the Day
a few days ago i spent a long time blogging and my post was lost after writing for a long time.
today i finally gave in after realizing that my extra backup hard drive i purchased a few months ago has failed and i am not left without all the files i put on there.
fortunately i still have all my pictures. i would be devastated if i lost them. i must reback them up now. i have all the music that was on mine and kristina's ipods. i lost lots of music, but i kept most of the best.
i lost all the documents i have saved since high school. i also lost all the ds games i downloaded that are not on my ds card as well as all of my computer games (civilization 4, fallout 3 [the reason i upgraded all of my hardware], colonization, some others games too i think, and a huge list of downloaded movies and shows i had planned to watch.
there is probably other things i cannot think of now that were lost, but it is okay because all the most important stuff was backed up and most of it is replaceable.
kristina's external hard drive also has recently broken ( a few days ago ) so i am feeling very upset with technology. i am currently reinstalling vista on her computer after uninstalling it and reinstalling XP because vista was running crappy. microsoft made all of the drivers for her hardware vista only so she would not be able to watch movies or listen to music or use her network card on XP....so stupid!
Im excited about Obama...more excited than I have been so far with him...he is actually doing things he said he would. I just wish he would close guantanmo bay sooner than a year from now.
Being unemployed so far has been nice. I have been getting some small stuff done and relaxing quite a bit. I need to make a new list of goals and try to focus on getting things done next week. I wanted to sell my car but looking on craigslist I have seen that my car is selling for half of what I was expecting to get for it. This might be from people not having money because of the economy. Maybe I should hold on to it longer...at least until the President gives out either refunds or more stimulus checks. I don't want to sell too low.
Tonight me and Kristina broke out all of my old CD's, it is fun to look at all the artwork. I haven't looked at some of the artwork in years. I sold some of the ones I never listened to or didn't want anymore sometime when I was in Las Vegas but I still have about 150-200.
Soon I am going to get a replacement needle and stereo system to play my record player and then I can break out the record collection which will be even more fun to look at. One thing I read to do to save money is to go through all your old things instead of buying new things. You might have something you forgot about or haven't played with enough! That is my unemployed hobo tip of the day!
today i finally gave in after realizing that my extra backup hard drive i purchased a few months ago has failed and i am not left without all the files i put on there.
fortunately i still have all my pictures. i would be devastated if i lost them. i must reback them up now. i have all the music that was on mine and kristina's ipods. i lost lots of music, but i kept most of the best.
i lost all the documents i have saved since high school. i also lost all the ds games i downloaded that are not on my ds card as well as all of my computer games (civilization 4, fallout 3 [the reason i upgraded all of my hardware], colonization, some others games too i think, and a huge list of downloaded movies and shows i had planned to watch.
there is probably other things i cannot think of now that were lost, but it is okay because all the most important stuff was backed up and most of it is replaceable.
kristina's external hard drive also has recently broken ( a few days ago ) so i am feeling very upset with technology. i am currently reinstalling vista on her computer after uninstalling it and reinstalling XP because vista was running crappy. microsoft made all of the drivers for her hardware vista only so she would not be able to watch movies or listen to music or use her network card on XP....so stupid!
Im excited about Obama...more excited than I have been so far with him...he is actually doing things he said he would. I just wish he would close guantanmo bay sooner than a year from now.
Being unemployed so far has been nice. I have been getting some small stuff done and relaxing quite a bit. I need to make a new list of goals and try to focus on getting things done next week. I wanted to sell my car but looking on craigslist I have seen that my car is selling for half of what I was expecting to get for it. This might be from people not having money because of the economy. Maybe I should hold on to it longer...at least until the President gives out either refunds or more stimulus checks. I don't want to sell too low.
Tonight me and Kristina broke out all of my old CD's, it is fun to look at all the artwork. I haven't looked at some of the artwork in years. I sold some of the ones I never listened to or didn't want anymore sometime when I was in Las Vegas but I still have about 150-200.
Soon I am going to get a replacement needle and stereo system to play my record player and then I can break out the record collection which will be even more fun to look at. One thing I read to do to save money is to go through all your old things instead of buying new things. You might have something you forgot about or haven't played with enough! That is my unemployed hobo tip of the day!
Friday, January 23, 2009
fuck IE
I jsut wrote a blog entry for an hour....I did all this research online while I was writing it....citing studies and stuff. And it ALL GOT DELETED because of STUPIDASS internet explorer! ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Monday, January 19, 2009
doing nothing
i've been playing lots of video games lately. pac-man and shining force II
it is so nice to have this free time. my goals for today are:
get a letter notarized for my sister and mail it out, to prove my niece was born and should get a birth certificate ( i already did this one, im just putting it on the list in order to feel productive)
do the dishes
vacuum the floor
maybe mop
fix kristina's computer (wish me luck!)
make a grocery store list that will include:
garbage bags
toilet paper
potatoes
rice
pizza
fake 7-up
some other stuff that is cost effective
it is so nice to have this free time. my goals for today are:
get a letter notarized for my sister and mail it out, to prove my niece was born and should get a birth certificate ( i already did this one, im just putting it on the list in order to feel productive)
do the dishes
vacuum the floor
maybe mop
fix kristina's computer (wish me luck!)
make a grocery store list that will include:
garbage bags
toilet paper
potatoes
rice
pizza
fake 7-up
some other stuff that is cost effective
Friday, January 16, 2009
plans change
THE PLAN
My job hired me at the end of October. My first day on the job was the busiest, it has become slower every day. Sometimes I would just walk around downtown dropping off invoices which could easily have been mailed out. They hired me when they didn't really need anyone and they were paying my a salary of 30,000 a year. I knew that they were going to have to let me go eventually, I was hoping it would have been closer to May, because that is around when Kristina and I are going to Europe.
I would be able to take a short vacation before the real vacation and collect unemployment while I am in Europe. And I could just cut my expenses during the period between being let go from my job and when I leave the country.
REALITY
I was let go "due to restructuring" on Wednesday. I knew it was coming long before it came. This is actually a blessing though, I went straight to the unemployment office after work. I made a list of things I need to do, including cutting expenses, getting on food stamps. I need to sell my car too, and now I have no excuse! If I am able to sell it for at least 3000 dollar then I will still be able to meet my 2009 resolution of paying off my debt.
NEW PLAN
I am going to enjoy this time off, unlike last time I was fired (378 days before). I am going to definitely collect unemployment this time, because I was not fired for something I did, I was let go due to restructuring. I am going to find new sources of income that I won't have to declare. I am considering selling some of my old CD's and records because they just sit there going unlistened to, but I think I might regret that someday.
I am going to try doing simple work online for amazon.com in order to pay for internet and a new phone (my work phone was obviously taken away from me). I also want to explore the option of selling stuffed animals online. I am also going to enjoy not waking up at 7:30am 5 days a week. I will enjoy the Wii my brother let me borrow.
One bad thing about that job is I was being forced to dress a certain way, shave, comb my hair a certain way, look normal, clothes must not be stylish in anyway. It was turning me into a person I do not want to be and I am glad that I have moved on from that place. I can wear tennis shoes and orange heart bracelets and whatever else I want.
Maybe it is wrong to collect unemployment when I could easily get a job if I just tried. Perhaps I should not be using food stamps when I could afford food if I just worked. Most of the arguments against this that I have come up with are fallacies: the government spends half our taxes on bombs, this world is messed up and I shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week, if I don't collect some fatcat will collect it instead, the deficit is in the trillions and will continue to be in the trillions until the US government collapses. Really none of these arguments address the fact that I am taking money from a fund which is designed to help those who need the money, when I do not in fact need the money. I don't feel bad though.
My job hired me at the end of October. My first day on the job was the busiest, it has become slower every day. Sometimes I would just walk around downtown dropping off invoices which could easily have been mailed out. They hired me when they didn't really need anyone and they were paying my a salary of 30,000 a year. I knew that they were going to have to let me go eventually, I was hoping it would have been closer to May, because that is around when Kristina and I are going to Europe.
I would be able to take a short vacation before the real vacation and collect unemployment while I am in Europe. And I could just cut my expenses during the period between being let go from my job and when I leave the country.
REALITY
I was let go "due to restructuring" on Wednesday. I knew it was coming long before it came. This is actually a blessing though, I went straight to the unemployment office after work. I made a list of things I need to do, including cutting expenses, getting on food stamps. I need to sell my car too, and now I have no excuse! If I am able to sell it for at least 3000 dollar then I will still be able to meet my 2009 resolution of paying off my debt.
NEW PLAN
I am going to enjoy this time off, unlike last time I was fired (378 days before). I am going to definitely collect unemployment this time, because I was not fired for something I did, I was let go due to restructuring. I am going to find new sources of income that I won't have to declare. I am considering selling some of my old CD's and records because they just sit there going unlistened to, but I think I might regret that someday.
I am going to try doing simple work online for amazon.com in order to pay for internet and a new phone (my work phone was obviously taken away from me). I also want to explore the option of selling stuffed animals online. I am also going to enjoy not waking up at 7:30am 5 days a week. I will enjoy the Wii my brother let me borrow.
One bad thing about that job is I was being forced to dress a certain way, shave, comb my hair a certain way, look normal, clothes must not be stylish in anyway. It was turning me into a person I do not want to be and I am glad that I have moved on from that place. I can wear tennis shoes and orange heart bracelets and whatever else I want.
Maybe it is wrong to collect unemployment when I could easily get a job if I just tried. Perhaps I should not be using food stamps when I could afford food if I just worked. Most of the arguments against this that I have come up with are fallacies: the government spends half our taxes on bombs, this world is messed up and I shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week, if I don't collect some fatcat will collect it instead, the deficit is in the trillions and will continue to be in the trillions until the US government collapses. Really none of these arguments address the fact that I am taking money from a fund which is designed to help those who need the money, when I do not in fact need the money. I don't feel bad though.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Mario
Today I drove the company van to Astoria, Oregon. Astoria is a small port town about 2 hours drive from portland. The drive is very beautiful and has many interesting things including bridges, many rivers to drive nearby, creeks, swamps, farms, and other things too.
The drive was very nice and now I'm back at work which is not so nice. I ate a cheese and fake turkey sandwich while I drove, I also listened to my ipod and sang real loud while driving. I prefer the car radio over the ipod but this radio had no reception and I don't like the radio songs anyway.
My grandmother (aka nanny) sent me some soft pajama type shirt and a check for 30 bucks which I used to buy the board game Pente. The game is fun, but got sort of boring after a little while. I think it would be more fun with more people.
Sean let me borrow his Wii, I have been playing Mario Kart trying to get all of the trophies in order to unlock extra characters and cars. I always play as toad on a bike. The courses are so fun and cute...such an improvement over the last Mario I played.
The drive was very nice and now I'm back at work which is not so nice. I ate a cheese and fake turkey sandwich while I drove, I also listened to my ipod and sang real loud while driving. I prefer the car radio over the ipod but this radio had no reception and I don't like the radio songs anyway.
My grandmother (aka nanny) sent me some soft pajama type shirt and a check for 30 bucks which I used to buy the board game Pente. The game is fun, but got sort of boring after a little while. I think it would be more fun with more people.
Sean let me borrow his Wii, I have been playing Mario Kart trying to get all of the trophies in order to unlock extra characters and cars. I always play as toad on a bike. The courses are so fun and cute...such an improvement over the last Mario I played.
Monday, January 12, 2009
you
Kristina and i are working through our problems. We both want to be together and still move in together. We spent friday night, saturday and sunday playing wii, talking, eating, grocery shopping, watching football with jeremys new baby, watched harry potter leafed out. I went to bretts work and had a pretzel and some apple cider. Then we went to seans house for some hanging and played some crusader game. We also all hung out friday night and rearranged my house. It looks really good now. I also hung a bunch of stuff from the ceiling with kristina. Some origami animals, the scarfed octopus of yarn which harper made for me, and some cubed paper things.
This weekend has put a lot of things in perspective and i feel really good about everything.
This weekend has put a lot of things in perspective and i feel really good about everything.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
2009 resolutions
last time i was at the grocery store i saw some sweet potatoes and i decided i wanted to try making some mashed sweet potatoes. i once tasted a dish from this soul food/ethiopian place in portland that i remembered really liking. it tasted almost like maple syrup mashed potatoes.
last night i made them, a little brown sugar and a tiny bit of syrup went into 4 giant mashed sweet potatoes with a little fake butter and some salt. it was okay but not great and a little weird. i made way too much and kristina didn't really like it so i decided that it would probably go bad and be thrown out but we went to a viewing of 2001: a space odyssey at this place called the doll house, which is just a house where some friends live who own a projector.
they were all pretty high so they ate it all up, they were also watching the 1998 x files movie instead of 2001 when we got there, but they changed that soon after. it was kind of boring but also kind of fun. i drank one shot of tequila and drank a miller high life which was kinda gross. but im not sure if it was gross because of my perception of that beverage or if it really is gross. i might have made up my mind about that beer when i read that it was a union made beer/champagne of beers. oh well!
my new years resolution this year is to pay off my credit card debt and save money for europe this summer. my credit card debt was up to 4300 but not it is down to 3800 and if i continue putting 200 dollars from every paycheck toward it as well as stop using it completely i will have it fully paid off by the end of the year. i feel this is a good goal because i have been doing it and i know i can continue to do it. the savings part is the same, i am putting 200 a paycheck into a savings account.
my other resolution is to be more adventurous and try to break my routine as much as possible. this will be very difficult but making that sweet mashed potato was a start and it will continue!
last night i made them, a little brown sugar and a tiny bit of syrup went into 4 giant mashed sweet potatoes with a little fake butter and some salt. it was okay but not great and a little weird. i made way too much and kristina didn't really like it so i decided that it would probably go bad and be thrown out but we went to a viewing of 2001: a space odyssey at this place called the doll house, which is just a house where some friends live who own a projector.
they were all pretty high so they ate it all up, they were also watching the 1998 x files movie instead of 2001 when we got there, but they changed that soon after. it was kind of boring but also kind of fun. i drank one shot of tequila and drank a miller high life which was kinda gross. but im not sure if it was gross because of my perception of that beverage or if it really is gross. i might have made up my mind about that beer when i read that it was a union made beer/champagne of beers. oh well!
my new years resolution this year is to pay off my credit card debt and save money for europe this summer. my credit card debt was up to 4300 but not it is down to 3800 and if i continue putting 200 dollars from every paycheck toward it as well as stop using it completely i will have it fully paid off by the end of the year. i feel this is a good goal because i have been doing it and i know i can continue to do it. the savings part is the same, i am putting 200 a paycheck into a savings account.
my other resolution is to be more adventurous and try to break my routine as much as possible. this will be very difficult but making that sweet mashed potato was a start and it will continue!
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