Tuesday

Not much happening today. I went in to studio with Mary and Jackie to claim desks. Unfortuneately they are still moving things around in there so we are not allowed to claim them until Thursday. Maybe I will go in on Wednesday night so that I can get a window desk. I talked with my boss today and I will be going to down to Santa Maria tommorrow to set up a remote desktop so that I can do work from the office at home, and only go in on Thursdays when I dont have class. I only plan to work 8 to 10 hours, so that shouldn't be too bad on top of the potential 21 units I will be taking.
Yesterday Jeff and I went to the Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero, it wasn't that large of a zoo, I felt as though the admission was more of a donation than anything. They did have tigers though, they were pretty cool. The neat thing about the zoo was that it was so small and had so few visitors, that the animals were not bored by the presence of humans, in fact they watched us. When Jeff made a quick movement, the african porcupine raised his quills to react. The tigers watched us as we walked by and the emu and lemurs followed us. My favorite thing they had was a Fossa (foosha). It was like a giant Mongoose with long legs, very pretty. Jeff liked the Duiker. It was very small. We then came back down the coast on highway one. We ate lunch in Morro Bay at Haufbrau, I got a delicious french dip and jeff ate something called a Rothskeller. YUM!.
Now I am trying to think of something that I could do this week to say goodbye to summer, in the fun way. Maybe on Thursday, as I am going in to work tommorrow. If you think of anything, please let me know. I'm out.

Golfing

I did something for the first time ever today. I went golfing. No, not at a mini-golf course, real true golfing. Doug took me under his wing to teach me the game he's played for 17 years. After many miss-swings, and well, foul words, I managed to be able to hit the ball atleast once every two swings. I have blisters on my hands and suffered some mild embarrassment from my lack of ablities, but atleast when passersby commented, it was on the fact that i was either swinging too hard, or swinging like a baseball bat. It wasn't on my lack of athletic ability. It was kinda funny, I felt myself trying to open up in the swing, when it should be kept closed. I blame that act on one odd thing, Discus. Too many sports with too many different swings. I was actually not too bad at putting and I even suprised Doug on one that I made. We didn't keep score, it would be too embarrassing, but on the last hole I managed a double bogey, sounds bad I know, but I was rather proud and intend to do better next time. Yes, there will be a next time.

Sorrow

It seems like I have been reminded yet again how tenuous our grasp is upon that thing we view as life. I weep for my friend and what she is going through. We've all been there, and we all know what you are going through, my dear. We're here if you need us.

~Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Despair...despair in my soul

What on Earth could make me so sad? So lost? Something that people everywhere will ache from. My hero, the one celebrity i would ever try to meet is dead. Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter has passed away. He was stabbed in the heart by some freak accident with a stingray. The irony lies in that stingray injuries are rarely lethal. I myself, and i am sure others always believed that he would die at the hands of one of his own saw-toothed Crocs. Crikey! Rest in Peace Steve.

Not much in the news today...but something kinda cool.

Your Star Wars Name and Title

Your Star Wars Name: Laumi Gofai Your Star Wars Title: Nenora of Mas

Your Star Wars Name and Title

Finally

Well, a month later and after being berrated by a number of people about not updating, here is the story of my first trip to Oregon. We left SLO at about 5 in the afternoon for Dougs house in Sacramento, after about 6 hours of traffic and classic rock music, we got to Doug's. His parents warmly welcomed us and even had us take a dip in the pool mto relax our stiff muscles from the car. After the swim, we all went to sleep. The next day we left rather early heading to Oregon. I saw Mount Shasta for the first time, What i was told is the tallest mountain in California. There was snow on it. As the lay of the land got rockier and hillier, i knew we were nearing the border. We all took turns driving, and we drove through Medford towards Crater Lake. It was 1 and half hours out of our way, but it was truly worth it. It was so beautiful that i wanted to hug it and take it home. We had snowball fights on the hills and drove around the 5 mile diameter and 1550 ft deep lake. It was so blue! its too bad its was hazy. We didn't get to Jeff's aunt's house until about 10 that night, but we brought our own dinner and fending for ourselves. Jeff's aunt had two dogs, one was wonderful and one was, well a big puppy. The puppy was a chocolate lab that was still young and loved shoes. The other was an 8 year old husky named Diega. Dona Diega de la Vega. She was quite beautiful and again, i wanted to hug her and take her home. The next day we went to the Oregon Caves. They were so neat. some of the rooms reminded me of the Temple of Doom. I would hate to be the first person in those caves. While we were in the Caves, Jeff's mom had driven down to spend time with her sister and with us. We spent the rest of the day talking and joking and we also watched a movie. On the third day we loafed in the morning, then Doug, Jeff and I went rafting down the Rogue River. It was supposed to be about 2 hours and it was quite funny because at the first white water...Doug fell in..haha. It took him awhile to get back in the boat but he was alright. I enjoyed the ride and the water. It had the right kind of smell and you could actually see the bottom as you floated down it. Between the white water areas, i decided i wanted to swim, so i left the boat about 3 times to just float with the current. It was cold, but clean water, and definitely worth it. We came back to SLO, tired and sore, but feeling that the trip was definitly worth it. The only thing we paid for was food and gas, as i had my sister's natuional parks pass, and jeff's mom treated us to the boat ride. After the small road trip, I have basically spent my weeks going to work and weekends with friends. I did spend a weekend selling flowers for chirstine, but this job was probably not for me, as there were too many lewd comments and inuendos. I will however be filling in for Christine in two weekends, as she is going to dive for her SCUBA class. Work tommorrow, well after the eye appointment.

Vacay

So, I went on a small weekend vacation with Jeff and Doug last weekend to Oregon. There was much fun to be had, but I am home now and working so i am very tired. I will give a full update probably on Friday when i am not working.

Da Plane

OK, so I am writing a blog entry to be added later due to where I am. It’s July 5, 2006 8:30 PM EST and I am sitting on an airplane waiting for the stupid flight to end. There are many families aboard, in fact, more than I have ever seen on a plane at once. Upon boarding Christine and I counted 8 strollers to be checked in the elevated tunnel thingy. You can tell that I am bored, on board. I mean I am blogging without internet, but that’s ok. Some people are asleep and I wish I were but I guess I kinda got one in after our gross snack thingy. I think I might have to join Tiin in going to TGI Fridays for dinner, because I am getting pretty hungry. Be seeing you.

The Wedding

So its done, it finally happened, Kara's wedding is over. We're all worse for ware and very tired but its finally behind us. Saturday the first started with too many people using one bathroom in the morning. With guests, five is just too many to use one room, too bad the bride had to wait an hour and a half. So the bride, the maid of honor and I went to be the first shift for hair, being done. After Kara's pile of hair was done, I went. My hair was ok, nothing special, but then again, it wasn;t supposed to stand out. I then left to go to a rehearsal at the church with my cousins for the musical trio. Mia was on the harp, Melissa was on the flute and I was on the cello. The rehearsal took longer than expected and i didn't get to go back home to get ready so all my things were brought to me by the well prepared maid of honor, Lacie. It was a rush but we got ready and took some photos. The ceremony went well, and Kara looked Beautiful. Stunning actually. Unfortuneately there was a mix up with the last minute tuning on the harp and poor Mia was flat by half a note on every string. She was so flustered despite my efforts to get her back in the music she never really found her way. We did however finish the last note together and that is all that mattered at that point it was the best we could do. My solo of Jesu went well while Kara and Brandon lit the unity candle or atleast tried to. When the wedding was over, the party along with the ring bearer and the four flower girls headed off in the limo to the art museum for pictures. This is where the irony comes in. There were 7 other bridal parties at the museum taking pictures as well. Ive never seen so many brides in my life, let alone in one day. It became the joke that we were Blue team as we had blue dresses and the other groups were other gangs, that we should start snappign our fingers like we were in Westside story. We then drove to the zoo, went to the carousel for photos and finally got to the reception hall with air conditioning as it was horribly hot and humid. The couples first dance was lovely and the song worked out so well for them. Lifehouse- You and Me. Then the dance party ensued and sleep was upon me at about 2 am with an 8 am rise for breakfast for was turned into 8 families spread through the morning. So now it is time to sleep as its late here in Ohio. I'm out. Oh, Happy Birthday Jeff. You're 21!

Home

Ok, so I AM at home and keeping busy busy busy. I have spent the daytime of the last couple days working on either the yard and its many many weeds, wedding planning or in the house cleaning. I think I should head to bed soon though, as it is Ohio time.