Month: December 2006

Alcohol

Dear Alcohol,

First & foremost, let me tell you that I’m a huge fan of yours. As my friend, you always seem to be there when needed. The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer at the game, and you’re even around in the holidays, hidden inside chocolates as you warm us when we’re stuck in the midst of endless family gatherings. However, lately I’ve been wondering about your intentions. While I want to believe that you have my best interests at

heart, I feel that your influence has led to some unwise consequences:

1. Phone calls: While I agree with you that communication is important, I question the suggestion that any conversation of substance or necessity takes place after 2 a.m. Why would you make me call those ex-boyfriends/girlfriends when I know for a fact they do not want to hear from me during the day, let alone all hours of the night?

2. Eating: Now, you know I love a good meal, but why do you suggest that I eat a taco with chili sauce, along with a big Italian meatball and some stale chips (washed down with WINE & topped off with a Kit Kat after a few cheese curls & chili cheese fries)? I’m an eclectic eater, but I think you went too far this time.

3. Clumsiness: Unless you’re subtly trying to tell me that I need to do more yoga to improve my balance, I see NO need to hammer the issue home by causing me to fall down. It’s completely unnecessary, and the black & blue marks that appear on my body mysteriously the next day are beyond me.

Similarly, it should never take me more than 45 seconds to get the front door key into the lock.

4. Furthermore: The hangovers have GOT to stop. This is getting ridiculous. I know a little penance for our previous evening’s debauchery may be in order, but the 3pm hangover immobility is completely unacceptable. My entire day is shot. I ask that, if the proper precautions are taken (water, vitamin B, bread products, aspirin) prior to going to sleep/passing out face down on the kitchen floor with a bag of popcorn, the hangover should be minimal & in no way interfere with my daily activities.

Alcohol, I have enjoyed our friendship for some years now & would like to ensure that we remain on good terms. You’ve been the invoker of great stories, the provocation for much laughter, and the needed companion when I just don’t know what to do with the extra money in my pockets.

In order to continue this friendship, I ask that you carefully review my grievances above & address them immediately. I will look for an answer no later than Thursday 3pm (pre-happy hour) on your possible solutions & hopefully we can continue this fruitful partnership.

Thank you,

One of your many fans

Letter to Chiba

Dear Chiba,

This message might be a bit too much too soon, but with having the German here I want to get it out in the open. Otherwise I’ll just spend the next 3 weeks being pissed off and I don’t want that, and hopefully you don’t want that either.

Anyways… The point is that over the last couple months all my friends have said that I’m too stuck to the old-world ideals of exclusive dating, etc. So I was going to give casual dating a try. Well this clearly is not for me. I’m too much of the jealous type for casual dating to work for me.

I know that you said you have not yet had sex with the Daniel, I’m not sure if this includes making out, jacking off, blowjobs and the like. But I’m guessing by the time the three weeks is up that will happen with him.

In the long run. I’ve really enjoyed our time so far together, even thogh it’s been very short. To be honest you are not at all the type of person that I usually go for, but I’d like to continue to see where things go. I hate that this german guy is putting such a strain on this for me already as I’m not sure I can handle knowing that he’s sleeping in your bed everynight for the next three weeks and my mind just gets worse from there.

I realize that you had this planned for a while already, but I hope that you are honest with him and with me as to what’s going on. I don’t want to not see you for the next three weeks because he is dominating your time. I also don’t want to start an argument between he and you, or between you and I. I’m just wanting to let you know my feelings before they do amasse into an anger situation.

Chiba’s Date

So the last two days have been pretty damn good. I honestly am having troubles remembering it all cause there was so much to write about!

So lets see. Tuesday I got home from my bike ride and was online talking to Chiba. He suggested I come and stay the night and then hang out all day Wed. I have two sick days that I need to use up or lose, so I decided to go for it. He was heading out to dinner with his friends and said to meet him there at 9:30.

I leave my place at 8:50, and txt message him that I’m on my way… Get to his place at 9:32 and call him. He’s STILL at the resturant. “Just leaving”. I said I’ll wait. I wait 30 minutes, still not there. I txt him that I’m leaving in 5 minutes if I don’t hear from him. He calls and says that he’s sorry he got tied up talking to this teacher person he was at dinner with and that he’s on his way. He didn’t get there till 10:30 and I was pretty damn pissed.

So we headed out to Falcon’s Lair in LA. Talk about Hollywood, this place was the epitome of Hollywood. Perfect boys, perfect hair, perfect everything. I felt so out of place. Thankfully I had borrowed a jacket from Chiba, so I looked semi-cute. Throughout the night people kept pointing at me and talking though. Very strange.

We met and chatted with a few people there and that was cool. We also saw Allison Janney there and sat on the couch across from her for a while. I was very excited. We left there at nearly 2 and went to Ralphs and went grocery shopping. That was cute.

Drove back to his house and we were up till 5am talking and making out. I also introduced him to EggNog. He liked it!

Wed we got up about 11ish and hung around his house, ate lunch, talked some more, etc. Headed out to PCC so that he could register for classes and that was an absolute mess. AND I got a freaking parking ticket! UGH! $25 that I really don’t have right now.

Anyways, I got a little annoyed that we wasted the whole day doing that, but it’s understandable that he needed to get it done. Shiela and Beak called in there too and it was very confusing because everyone kept going on and on in the background and I was trying to drive and get directions all at the same time.

So we got done with that and then headed out on the date that I had planned. Got up to Griffith just in time for the last bus, so that was good. Thank god we were on time for something!

Griffith Observatory was GREAT! As always you can see the pictures on the photodump. We just walked around and saw all the exhibits and did the planatarium show and all that. The sunset over LA was amazing. The Smog was great too! 🙂

From there we headed out to Zencu Sushi in Little Tokyo. It was a nice area and the food was great. So that’s good.

Drove back to his house and dropped him off. He seemed to really enjoy the night. So that’s what I was really looking for!

This Germany guy comes today though. Which I’m really annoyed about. I guess they are going to be going places. He says so far they have only planned Santa Barbara, and that this guy has already said that they are going to be hanging out every minute that Chiba is not working! Very annoying. We shall see if I get to see him over the next 3 weeks then.

On the way home I took the 710S. I get to the 105, which is one of the exits I can take, it’s closed. No big deal. I usually take the 91 to the 110 as it gets me closer to my house. So I keep going, the 91 is closed!!! What! And with NO warning. You get up to the exit and it’s just closed off! So I think, not a problem, the 405 is just 2 more miles, I can go 405N to the 110S and it’s only about 6 miles out of the way… So I keep going, 405….. CLOSED!

WHO fucking closes EVERY MAJOR freeway interchange off of another freeway!? WHO!? So I ended up having to go ALL THE WAY to Long Beach, about 30 minutes out of the way and then back trace up PCH.. So fucking annoying, and there was NO WARNING. If there had been a warning I could have taken Rosecrans or one of the other small streets off the 710 over to the 405. UGH!

I got home about 10:30 and just crashed. Got up this morning, got into work and was reading through my e-mail for the last two days…. I have an e-mail from my landlord again.. “Have not received the rent per out last conversation due on the first.”

EXCUSE ME!? You GOT IT 2 WEEKS EARLY, on FUCKING NOVEMBER 20th! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH! So I e-mail him back the jpg copies of the cashed check that my bank puts online. We’ll see what this mother fucker has to say about that. DUMB FUCKING SHIT HEAD. WHat the fuck is wrong with him. And in our previous conversations, he NEVER said ANYTHING about not recieving any rent. Just that he got it on NOVEMBER 20th! DUMB MOTHER FUCKER.

I feel like I’m forgetting something. Oh well. Adios!

The right house…

So, the search if off and going now. Officially.

However, it has not been an easy trail already! I figured the hardest part would be the financing, finding a realtor and getting in to see places would be easy right? These people make their living off of selling houses. They’ll call me back in two seconds. Not the case.

As previously stated, I was going to jus call up Bish. I’ve had a friendly relationship with him for a year while I was dating Adam. Although after that I didn’t talk to him, I assumed that he’d still be on friendly terms with me. Afterall, what did I do to him? Nothing! So I called him. Three times, never once did I get an answer. I left a voicemail, no call back. I sent him an e-mail via the Iowa Realty site. No calls. I’ve left messages for a few others as well, and still nothing!

These people want to sell houses, right? So why do they not return calls. The housing market is cooling off, I shouldn’t have to be tracking down and stalking these people to be their customer. They should be coming after me!

I’m getting the same run around with people in the mortgage industry! I figured I’d start with some local banks, so that I could go in and talk to them and get the full run down of what I needed to do. I don’t want to go around to a bunch of places and get “pre-approved” and have that ruin my credit score because they are checking my report and what not… So yesterday I called about 5 places here in the South-Bay area. WaMu, Citibank, places like this. I call and tell them that I am wanting to purchase an investment property and would like to make an appointment with someone to come in and talk to them. They all say. “I will tranfser you”.. Transfer, Voice mail… I leave a message.

Do you think a single one of these people has called me back? NOT ONE! Not a god damn one of them. Don’t these people want to sell a fucking mortgage? What is wrong with them! So on my way home I am driving by a US Bank and just stop in. I talk to a very nice woman who clearly has no idea what she is doing, but takes my business card and PROMISES that someone will call me back before EOB. Did anyone call? NO.

What happened to banks where you can’t get fucking service worth shit. Seriously, I’ve got EXCELLENT credit, I’m a great credit risk. Why don’t these people want to loan to me!

So this morning I go online to start looking for places. E-loan, DiTech, CountryWide, etc. I decide that I want to stay away from County Wide, due to my previous experience with some of thier employees. So I check out Interest.com, they of course say that CountryWide is my best bet. So I put in a thing to have someone call me.. I’m still waiting.

So then I decide to go the LendingTree.com route. I go through that and put in all the information. Within 15 minutes i’ve got 5 calls. I take the first one, and it’s a really nice guy from First Meridian Mortgage. He’s very helpful and gives me all the information I need and we talk though it all. Since i know my credit score he can easily pre-qualify me and get me the interest and all that information without running a credit report. Then if I decide to go with them I’ll have to do the Credit report, etc.

Next up, I return a call from Amerisave. Woman tells me they can’t do anythinbg without running a Credit report. NO thanks!

So then I return a call from this guy in Town Financial Corp. He just sounded stupid, and did’t really give me any information that I was asking for and just kept going around and around as if he were reading script. I told him he wasn’t very good at selling his products and hung up on him. Idiot.

This is just such a headache! Why do they have to make this process so god damn hard and annoying.

Just you wait till I get around to bitching about the closing costs!

Compensation…

Ok, another really long and busy weekend!

Lets see…. Friday I went out to dinner with Hector and like 8 of his girls. Very awk at times, but it was fun. It snowed at The Grove which was cute! I loved it. He was very nice, but honestly I hated the girls we were with. I also felt a bit left out at times cause they kept talking about school work and all this stuff that was just so 2 years ago for me! haha. Hopefully he and I can hang out again soon though. Chiba was mad at me for going out though. 🙁

Guerrilla Gay Bar was TONS of fun that night though, the place was SO PACKED that you couldn’t move at all. But it was still great. The crowd was Sooooo different then the typical WeHo group, so that was really nice. Just wish I had talked to more of the people there.

Left about midnight because I was tired, from being up since 3:30am, and plus it was just getting tooo crowded in there. Called Chiba and we talked for a bit. Got home and just crashed.

Got up at 6am Saturday and did a couple hours of work. Went off and did laundry. I always stop at Albertson’s on my way to buy some quarters, the same one that I buy ALL my groceries from. I always get two rolls, never had ANY problem before geting these. I buy a bagel, a thing of milk and get $20 in quarters. This time, i’m told they can only give me ONE roll, it’s always been this way. They never give out more then one roll. Very annoying. So I go across the street to Wells Fargo and since I’m not a fucking customer there they CHARGE me $2 to buy a fucking roll of quarters! EXCUSE ME!? WTF! Fuckers. Yet another reason why I hate banks! Sadly today I have to go to one to talk about a home loan!

So anyways, I go and do my laundry, come home and put the laundry down and then get side tracked with about 10 other projects. First I finished the clock, then I cleaned out my closets and then I cleaned my apartment and did some other stuff and then finially got around to putting the laundry away. Did I mention that I SMASHED my finger in there too?? Ouch!

By the time I was done with all this it was late, so I loaded my bike in the car and went to bed.

Sunday I got up, and went biking. Long ass ride, froze my ass off. But it was good to get back out there, we went up and over Sepulveda into the valley again. Went to the gym after and showered and then headed over to Chiba’s for lunch. I got there and he tells me that he’s already had lunch, but he told me he hadn’t so that I would come. lol. What a strange one. So we went out to lunch and then went and got him ice cream. I stayed for awhile and we talked.. Apparently this guy he dated back in the summer is coming to visit him (from Germany) for a couple weeks over christmas/new years… And he wanted to see how I felt about it… Honstly. I’m a bit annoyed, but on the account that this has been in plans since long before I met him, and the fact that we’re not exclusively seeing each other I suppose it’s fine. But since he will be AT his apartment the whole time, that A) means they will probably be fucking, B) means that I won’t have any time to see him. Just a bit annoying. Not that he and I are fucking currently anyways. Ok. I’m clearly not getting my point across.

Do you all remember the post a while back where I put the picture of the car that was totally smashed when it was parked on Pacific Cost Highway… Anyways. While I was driving to the bike ride I saw one MUCH worse… Someone had rear ended an SUV that was parked along Hawthorne, pushed that car into the car infront of it, and then pshed that car into the car infront of IT and pushed that one into the one infront of IT! So there were a total of 5 cars in the accident, only one of them had a driver! The first SUV was basicallyl FLAT. Whoever did that had to have been FLYING down hawthorne blvd.

As many of you know, I’ve been taking on any extra jobs I can get… So I’ve been looking on Craigslist mostly. It amazes me what these people are offering to pay for things. Some of it very complicated stuff that they are like. “$10/hr” or something as equally horrible! I really just want to reply to all these idiots and tell them they aren’t going to get someone _good_ to do it for that cheap!

Anyways. I’m off now to call some realtors and the like.

Adios!

PS.. I thought this was cute: