So I leave for 2 full weeks for the Philippines.  I really can’t wait to get back to the PI, can’t wait to see my godson Matthew, and just to see the rest of the family and how much things have changed.  Last time I was there was in June 2001 until February 2002, so everything should still feel very familiar.  My family is going all out for my lola’s 80th birthday, I am kinda scared that they are going to make all the grandkids perform or something and that I won’t be prepared.

 

So expect pics from yours truly when I get back in November… any requests from the PI???

hello once again.
I love being at home and just cleaning my room.  It feels so strange though since I arrived on a Friday, then 6 days later I went to NYC for 5 days, and then in a week and a half I will be on my way to the Philippines for 2 weeks!  Isn’t that just crazy fun???  With all the travelling and road and air time I have decided to not go back to NYC this weekend to see my gf, and rather stay in Maryland and go to the APA Film Festival this weekend at the Smithsonian.  I can’t wait, I love packing for whole day events and just bumping into people, and the whole event is FREE!  I also wanna hang out with some people I have not been able to hangout with since I have been back.  My gf understands, which makes me love her even more… so life is good.  Just thinking about all my traveling and then my eventual return and having my job hunting beginning makes me a bit nervous, but I just want a job that I can be proud to tell people I work there.. then begin the process of applying to grad schools.  I am actually looking at Towson’s Grad School in School Psychology.  That will be nutso having to go to school again.. but I am definitely looking forward to it.

 

Ok, so if you are here this weekend I cant wait to bump into you!

Also, I have 2 tickets to the orchestra at the Kennedy Center for this Monday night… let me know if you are interested in going with me or if you are interested in buying my two tickets…

I love writing, makes me feel creative, or maybe I am still enamored by the feeling of typing and then what I am typing comes up on the screen… does that make any sense to anyone?  hehe, i get strange.

 

 

So I just stay home all day renovating my room and throwing out all my old stuff in my room… I cant believe I have all my notebooks since high school and that I was finally able to part with some textbooks since I believe them to be rather outdated.  Plus I want to get rid of the evidences 

 

So before my NYC update I will give give a blurb about my morning tv viewing.. So I was watching Maury Povich this morning and the show had to do with DNA testing to find out the baby’s daddy.  But the thing with this show was that it was dedicated to Maury’s past guests who had previously come on to have DNA tests done on other gentlemen.  I mean, some of these women had been on the show 3 times and each time they told Maury that they were 100% positive that the person they brought on was the father, I love the moments as Maury is reading the DNA results and both people are either bitching each other out or in tears… then the moment comes, “You are NOT the father of…”… the woman runs out of the room and the guy is either cheering and high-5ing or comforting the woman.  Ok, so this show was all about women who had been on the show a twice before and still had not found the baby’s daddy.  So I was just amused that these women must have had quite the busy week or so to be able to not be sure as to who their baby’s daddy is… but are you ready for the best story???  There was a woman on the show who had already brought on 12 guys to have DNA tests on all of them… and guess what???  Not a single one of them was the baby’s daddy… can someone say GANGBANG!?!?!?!

 

 

Just cleaning out my room before I can fully move back in… lots of quirky kid memories I am throwing away.. I opened up my little safe thing and found a gold paper clip as well as Cindy Crawford news clippings, and random rocks I found around the house.. I was definitely a weird kid, still am.

 

I am entertaining myself currently with Dog the Bounty Hunter:
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I am sooo happy to be home.  It is like there is so much to rediscover and just be able to be crazy and happy once again… I definitely know that my laughter was nice and healthy my last few months in San Diego, but I also know that there is nothing like smiling uncontrollably and laughing when you are among friends.

 

So I have nothing to do the next 3 weeks before I leave for the Philippines for 2 BIG weeks!  Isnt that nuts!  Like I am not even going to job search until I get back from the PI… so if anyone wants to do lunch or just meet up for super duper late night coffee, I am mos def available and have no excuses to not be there. I want to see people at work, I want to take walks around the monuments and FREE museums.  I want to get on the metro and just cruise around DC.  I want to go to all the yummy cheap restaurants..  and i cant wait for one on one/face to face conversations with my peeps, hitting the ground running.

 

ok, uhmmnm… waiting for my cell phone to ring!

So I went to CJ’s big 25th barbq today… it turned out to be fun despite spending the first 2 hours and a half of the social in the same 2 feet radius.  I do not know how to best describe it, maybe it was just the initial vibe I got when I showed up to the party and I just knew no one cept for the host..  I know that i promised myself that I would never go to another social where I knew less than 3 people since I usually always freeze and revert right back to a 7th grade stance where I just freeze, like a deer caught in head lights.  it even takes me some time to thaw out a bit and get comfortable again after making a “fool” of myself by being such a wallflower.  I mean even after I started getting seeing people I knew and making small talk I still found my feet cemented to the ground.  There is definitely a point where I just get embarrassed for my actions and I stop questioning what events started me in that motion, but for some reason it is like the road that I just cant feel I can get back on…  So i apologise to all those that were at the bbq tonite…  But I think another big reason for my relative silence was because my mind was still on the road, on the long drive that I just endured and just give me another week or so to get my feet wet again and I will be talking up a storm…

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Here are some pics from my long drive as well as some pics from this evening… I had wanted to take more pics tonite..

 

catching a sunrise

I was bored during many portions of the trip… this is me during the first leg of the driving

 

a long stretch somewhere around Rosewell New Mexico…

 

pretty clouds

I look really sleepy in this shot… and I wasnt even acting!

 

Happy birthday CJ!  Me, Cezar, and Al… Prep 1997!

I am back in Maryland… I arrived at noon after a loooooong 26 hour drive from Armirillo Texas to Derwood Maryland.  I thought the first stretch of the trip was long but after checking in Armirillo with pouring rain and hail and trying to catch the Season Premiere of Smallville and having to spend a coooool $70 for 1 night (biiiiig rip off) really put a sour taste in my mouth about checking in to another place before getting home.  So the whole trip was about 14 hr the first stretch + 13 hours at the hotel + 26 hours = about 53 hours, not bad… esp. since i did the whole thing solo.

I entertained myself with 26 hours of the Da Vinci Code on CD, and just alot of radio searching and listening to some mixes… so many little observations here and there when you take long drives and drive at night as opposed to the day cross country… I despise driving through the desert states and finding myself in ghost town rest stops… aaaaaaaaaahh!  the second leg was much easier as there were more established rest stops and they werent 80 miles apart..  so ya, definitely need a good strategy when driving cross country.

It was really dangerous driving through the Shenandoah region since I was completely dozing off, I mean I cant even remember long stretches of the drive and would only wake up to find that I was still following the car in front of me as we ducked in and out of the fast lane… too many speed traps in Virginia, like they actually built huge mounds to hide 2-3 cop cars so that the other side cant see them either… gross..  I took some pics and will post when I write again…

 

Sooo happy to be back in Maryland!