Monthly Archives: December 2008

Vacation ending

Well less than 24hrs before I am back in The Bay.  Overall vacation has been good.  Some bad.  Still a lot of confused.  To be honest, I don’t think that I am ready for the new year.  But there’s no stopping time, as they say.  I just hope nothing else breaks for awhile.

Raiding the closet to see what of my brother’s clothes that I can take with me.  In year’s pass, it wasn’t such a bad deal.  My brother wore baggy stuff and things two sizes too big, so they would fit me fine.  Now that I’m a fat-ass (my mom is starting to call me Fat Albert.), I’m not sure if they will fit me or not.

Was just blog surfing and came across the Portraits Livejournal.  I tend to stay away from Livejournal since I broke up with Suzanne ages ago. (April’s also an O.G. member of Livejournal.)  Here is one of my old livejournal for the hell of it. This isn’t even my main Livejournal (I deleted that one).  I should probably try to port all of those old Livejournal entries to this blog.

Anyway, the point before I started wandering is that she still has my pictures as part of the Portraits Livejournal Userpic.  That’s me in the top row far left, second row far right, and third row far left.  I wish that I had those pictures, the full size ones.  Sometimes, I wish that I hadn’t destroyed all of those memories and pictures.  I should have at least put them on a CD and stored them with the rest of my memories up here.  Sometimes I wonder why I still hold on to these two boxes of memories and keepsakes.  I think that I should burn them and get rid of them.  But I can’t/won’t.   They will just stay boxed up in my closet until the day comes that I can open them up and face the memories of the past.

Hot Sticky Rice Explosion

The weather up here today has been really weird; I’ve seen it sunny, cloudy, windy, raining, and snowing so far.  Just waiting for hail and for frogs to fall out of the sky.
To start out this story, for Christmas a few years ago I got my mom a $300 rice cooker.  Now this $300 rice cooker has like five million settings.  There are settings for every single kind of rice, different levels of pressure cooking, etc., etc. To top it off it talks to you in Korean.  My mom loves it.  It’s way too much rice cooker for me. Here’s a picture of an older model (I think)
So the last time I was up here, I made rice and my mom said that it was too dry and I didn’t use enough water.  As anyone that has grown up in an Asian family knows, you use the knuckle method to figure out how much water you put in with your rice to cook it.  So I’m making some rice today and I’m using the knuckle method to figure out how much water to put in an I remember my mom complaining that the rice was dry the last time.  So I kind of disregarded the knuckle method and put in some extra water.
So later the I come down to check on the rice and I find out that the rice cooker is covered in a hot, stick, opaque mess.  Apparently, I had put in too much water and changed the pressure setting on the rice cooker.  It literally looked like the rice cooker was fucking something and just came all over the place.  I wish my cell phone wasn’t broken so that I could have taken a picture of it.
**sigh**  At least something in this house is climaxing.  I just wish it was me.

Reviewing the resolutions….

Last Year’s Resolutions
So how did I do?

  1. Have failed miserably.  Am at approx. 240lbs.  O.K., no approx.  I am 240lbs.  Things are def. not fitting now.
  2. Honestly can’t remember the last time that I went to the gym.  Maybe last spring?
  3. Another failure.  Gave up trying to get freezer space and just went to (insert fast food chain here)
  4. I looked a bit an almost moved.  But all of the places are either too expensive or in unsafe neighborhoods.  Of course, I only looked in SF and didn’t look out of the city.
  5. Didn’t tear up the cards, but didn’t spend either.  I think that I went to Macy*s once or twice and got only sale items.  After dealing with ShopNBC, I am def. tearing up that card when I pay it off
  6. Failed this one too.  Drunken Valentine Day Massacre.  Drunken Summer.  It’s taken a blood test showing that my liver might be in trouble to stop me from drinking.
  7. No camera/pictures a day.  I barely took a picture of myself at all.
  8. Missed Rent on Broadway.  Did not leave the state except to go to WA to see my parents.  Never taking Greyhound again.
  9. Actually have been working on this one.  It is a bit more organized than at the beginning of the year.
  10. Fail.
  11. No friends; only co-workers and roommates
  12. Failed Spectacularly
  13. I resolution that I actually 100% succeeded in.  And it was good. Just wonder how long I will have to wait until the next time.

Christmas Eve…

So I’m about a month behind in entries.
Nothing really happened.  I was sick with a cold/flu the whole time.  The entire time.
There is the Greyhound trip story, but the less we talk about that the quicker that I can heal the scars and put it behind me.
Working like crazy.  Nothing new in that.
Finally got a haircut.  I should post a picture of when I got it cut.
Got a ticket cause of my car’s registration or lack of, just a day before I was going to pay for it.
Stuck at the airport waiting for my flight to Seattle.  The older I get, the longer the flight seems to take.
Was told that I have allergies.  Cholesterol is down, but liver damage may have been done during my spring/summer breakup/stress at work/stress at work thing.
Had nonstop diarrhea for two days.  Lost some weight.  Still fat though.
Washed my cell phone (again) and seeing how that didn’t kill it, accidentally broke the screen at the airport.   Now trying to decide if I should buy a new one or see if I can get the screen fixed for cheap.
And finally I’m snowed in at the parents with a foot of snow surrounding my parents house.  I would take pictures, but alas, no camera since I have no phone.
Wait, I left the Christmas cards at home. So tomorrow should be fun since I have nothing to give. 
Anyway, the snow is pretty to look at and all. Just wish that I had someone to share it with.
Merry Christmas everyone.