Category: Around The Globe

Back from Vegas!!!

EDIT:// Pics are now up on the photodump!!!

OMG.. The trip was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much fun! We did so much fucking crap, and I spent WAY too much money!

Ok, so going back to Friday… Got up at 3:45am and headed to the airport. Got there and checked in. Going through security was HELL! I had both my carryon and laptop bag. They Screened my laptop bag and then said. “We need to search this, it looks like you have a lighter.” So we go over and they start going through it… Nothing. I have no lights. So the bitch goes through every pocket…. Can’t find anyting, so they scan it again… Still say “looks like you have something” so she searches EVERY pocket again! (And my bag has a LOT of pockets). Still nothing -> scan again -> “You have drill bits?”.. WHAT?! Who in the WORlD would travel with drill bits?! Crazy bitch. She takes EVERYTHING out of my bag. Can’t find anything.. Scans AGAIN! … Ends up being my ink pens! I’m sorry, but this is YOUR JOB! You can’t tell what a fucking INK PEN looks like on the xray? Makes me feel REALLY safe!

So then we go and we’re boarding and the National Gaurd shows up and they start searching everyone AGAIN!? This is ridiculous! STUPID!

So meet up with Mike, head back to the hotel room and drop off my shit. He had rented an Audi A8 for the weekend, OMG I’m in LOVE with this car. Amazing! After the hotel we head out to breakfast and then out to the Drive event. I did the Corvette twice and then the Hummer H2 once. That was really fun, the H2 was kinda crazy.

From there we headed out to some Mountian top thing. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was really pretty. You could see where there had been an avalanche or something because all the trees were bent over. Pretty cool stuff. Took some cool pics there as well.

Headed back to the hotel, showered and changed and then hit up the strip. Ate dinner there and then saw Zumanity.. HOLY SHIT, AMAZING! !!!!! I want to see it again! Actualy, I want to go see ALL those shows now.. I just sat there in Awe through the whole show, and we were in row 2, it was amazing. Checked out the strip a bit more and then went home.

Saturday we didn’t get up till like 11 and headed back to the strip checked out all the hotels and the cool stuff, and then I lost my first $1 on the slots. 🙁 Played some air hockey, hit the stratosphere and went out to dinner at this Greek place that ended up costing us $168!!! Holy shit! I about had a heart attack with that.

Caught the last water show after that and then out to drinks at the Bellagio. I wanted to hit up a gay club, but Mike didn’t. :'( From there we headed downtown where it’s REALLY trashy.

Sunday we headed out to Hoover Dam and had a great time just wondering around out there… Took the A8 off roading, now that was a crazy experience! lol. Also found an abanodned truck, tried to call it in, but they just kept transfering me because no one knew who’s district it was in! Being a good samaritan is hard work! lol. Ate dinner at Pink Taco and then I lost another dollar on the slots. :'( No money for me!

Got home about 9ish Sunday night and I crashed. Got up at 4:30 this morning and flew back to LA.

I also bought some art by Todd Goldman. Incluing this one:

I think it’s fitting considering we will soon be on the same floor as Girls Gone Wild

[private]UGH, now for the complaining…. Mike is an ASSHOLE! OMG. Every day we met new people, he had a new job.. One day it was a Lawyer, the next it was a dentist, etc… He would NOT shut up.. He claims to have owned about 8 million different cars.. If you add them up, he’s owned a new car EVERY YEAR he’s been old enough to drive. Including: a Corvette, an M3, Z4, etc. UGH. We went into versace and he went up to everything and loudly said, “I already own this.” Claims he’s been to Europe 30 times… For vacations. Thinks he knows EVERYTHING, and even when you do bring up evidence that he’s WRONG he still argues with you. UGH. I cannot stand it! The best lie though was that he claimed he was carrying a loaded firearm.. Yeah right! He’s a nice enough guy, but get over it, he’s not better then everyone else.

And I always wondered who the assholes were that honked and flashed their lights at you on the interstate, etc for really doing NOTHING but driving… IE. Light had JUST turned green and mike LAYS on the horn at people… EVERY LIGHT… People merge onto the freeway and he seems to think they are trying to race him… So he speeds up and cuts them off.. Someone is “too close” on the freeway and he slams on the brakes and goes 20… UGH.[/private]

In other news… I have 962 e-mails that have piled up over the weekend, so I’m going to spend all day reading those. Adios!

Vacation from Vacation!

Ok, well I’m back in Cali everyone.

I had a GREAT time back home. But I’m so socially exhausted. So much shit going on back there, so many great friends, great boys, great people!

Lets see, highlights:

Friday: Hung out with Angel, helped her move. Met the new guy, who’s very nice and cool. Had them over to my place that night and we all got drunk

Saturday: Hung out with the Parents, went hiking with them and got interviewed by the DM Register. My mommy got quoted! Went to sushi with them that night and then went out with David at the Frat, had an amazing time. It’s nice being back cause I’m the new hot guy, and everyone wants to talk to me. 🙂 David kept getting all these boys trying to get him to introduce me to them. So that felt nice. 🙂 I also got really drunk and then drove home! So much fun. haha.

Sunday: Hung out with the PU’s again, we went to the new Science center to the Titanic Exhibit. I lived! Went out to dinner with them again. Our waiter told us like every 5 minutes that his name was Dwaine. My dad made fun of him. He was REALLY cute though. 🙂 After that Ginny came over and we went hot tubbing. I was really tired so she didn’t stay too long.

Monday-Wed: Spent these days down at the Grandparents. Had fun times with them. Went out hiking, learned about the Blow Job girl, ate TONS of cookies and other yummy yummy food. Also read a lot. It was a bit stressful bieng down there and having to make all the small talk with them. Oh, also planted lots of flowers and did some other general yard work. Played with Gpa’s guns some. My Gpa has a derringer, which I want so bad! Apparently someone also stole a Nazi Gunbelt from him too, cause he can’t find it anywhere.

WedNight: I went out to the Parade with my cousin and the child. We had a good time, but the parade was way too long.

Thursday: I spent most of the day at home, that night I went out with Zach, Nic, Mandy, and Mellisa. Some random straight boy talked to us all at The Lift. Yay for cheap martinis! We also hit up the Royal Mile that night! 🙂

Friday: I got up fairly early, went to the fair with the cousin and the child, had a good time there. Then took her home and then met up with Angel again and we went back to the fair. Had some more fun and looked at all the HOT Iowa farm boys! Yum yum! After that I went to Angel’s showered and then met up with David, Dusty and Jen at the Frat. Had another great night.. Was out till about 5am, went home and finished packing then went to the airport. Got back to cali about noon.

The new airport stuff is stupid as hell! I walked RIGHT THROUGH security with a Nalgene full of water, no one even blinked. So cleary they are not doing much really about this. Then, apparently you can’t even take water, food, etc onto the plane that you BUY in the airport! WHAT?! This is retarded. Then once we got to LAX, they were searching EVERYONE’s carry one right before getting on the plane. I think this is overkill AND Stupid! Ugh!

I found some fun new websites too:

1) Amazing fast change.

2) FareCompare.

3) AirFareWatchdog.

4) BlueFly.

5) StubHub.

6) TheaterMania.

7) SmartDecorating.

Oh, and I am NOT a fucking jungle gym. I was sitting on the floor in Phoenix, and this small child came up to me and just stood there staring at me. I was like, “Hi” and then went back to reading my book. Then he started grabbing at my book. (He couldn’t have been more then 2). By this time the mother came over and started talking to me, I replied to her, but acted annoyed. She said that he kid likes to tear pages out of books. I was like.. “Great, then get the fucker away from my book”… Well I didn’t really say that, but it’s what I thought. So I just handed him my bookmark, hoping that would make him happy and he’d wonder away.

Nope, then he started CRAWLING all over me! I was like. GET THIS CHILD OFF ME. How could a parent seriously let the child do that shit. How fucking annoying.

Ugh.

Anywyas, I’ve spent the rest of the weekend hanging out at home. I’ve really needed some alone time.

Adios ya’ll!

SD Pride!

Woot! So after 2 years of living in Cali, I’ve FINIALLY made it to San Diego Pride! So, lets go back…

Friday after work, I met up with Jason and we headed down to the beach for a few hours. Hung out there and chatted and ate grapes and cherries and such. Had a good time, after that we went out on a bike ride. We weren’t planning on going too far, but ended up doing 30 miles again. So that felt good. Our goal is to get to Santa Monica and back soon… That’ll be 50 miles.

Got back to his place about 7:30 and we had a martini. When your blood is going hard core like that, you get drunk REALLY fast! So mental note people! From there we both showered (seperatly) and then went out to dinner. We went our seperate ways after that cause he was going out with people and I headed down to Orange!

Got there and walked in and pretty much went straight to sleep, cause I was a bit drunkish and VERY tired! Got up at 8am Saturday morning and Andrew and I headed down to San Diego. Robert cancelled on us at the last minute Friday. Which kinda pissed me off, but whatever.

Got down there at just the right time, as they were closing off the streets, found parking and went to RBB’s place, met her and then went and watched the parade! Sooo many hot boys! It made me feel so ugly, but lately I’ve been feeling kinda sexy too…

Me!

Anyways, we stared at the hot boys and such and watched the parade. It lasted FOREVER! But we stayed to the end! After that we walked down to the festival thing which was kinda stupid. Not worth the $12. I mean, perhaps if you went to the beer gardens or something.

From there we headed to H Mary’s for dinner. Had a great time there, and then headed out to the bars. Started off at Flicks, which was nice. There was a group of hot boys, the lesbian with them talked to us, but we couldn’t get the hot boys to talk to us. Sad. 🙁 The lesbian told me I was really hot. Some old man talked to me, he’s apparently from WeHo, he was nice.

After that we went to this house party. There were so homo’s there, but not any I’d make out with. Some really hot straight boys, but sadly they didn’t want to make out! haha. Of course Andrew made out with someone.

Got home about 2ish and we all crashed. Got up Sunday morning and Andrew and I went to some Art museum in San Diego. It was ok.

My camera broke too. :'( Well, just the LCD screen, which is a $60 replacement part. And apparently I can replace it myself. So that’ good. But means that I’ll have to deal with no LCD screen while in Iowa. 🙁

Overall the weekend was GREAT, no drama, no fighting, just fun times! 🙂

I have to work at 3:30 again tomorrow morning. 🙁

So far my week is pretty busy though. I’m hoping to fit in at least 20 miles the next three days, I’ve got a dinner date tonight, a lunch date tomorrow and then Wed I’m packing and have to have Carlito over to show him where all the stuff is at for the kitties while I’m gone. Thursday I leave right after work! 🙂

I’m tentitivly scheduled to go to Las Vegas in early Sept! I’m excited for that. 🙂 Speaking of Vegas and thus, gambling.. I also invested nearly $10k this weekend into three very high risk mutual funds…. They are 100% managed by computer forcasts. Seems like a fun thing to do, hopefully they will continue on the past 3-years, and manage to pull off the mid-20% return they’ve been getting! I’m really nervous about them though.

Adios!

San Fran Pics

Here’s the new header pics from San Fran:

35 – Carrots At The Pier

36 – Cherries at the Pier

37 – Coca-Cola

38 – Ghiradelli

39 – Wasteland

40 – Bridge in Japanesse Garden

41 – Coast Line Badoga Bay

42- Sunset over the Bridge

43 – Sunset over the Bride (2)

44 – Sunset over the Bridge (3)

(Private) So, the whole thing with the boy…. I just wanted to talk about it a bit more.. First are the txts and e-mails. After our first date he would txt or e-mail me every morning and every night with some cute txt, like “good morning sunshine” or “good night sweet pea” or something like that. Those seem to have basically stopped. Although this morning when I imed him, he did say “good morning sunshine” but alas he didn’t start it like usual.

Second is that when I was in san fran he kept saying he wanted me to come home early so we could hang out and go out and blah blah blah. But now that I’m back, he doesn’t seem as excited to hang out. Like last night he had a few hours before going to his parents. I could have gone up there and hung out with him. Or tonight he says he wants to hang out but that the has to work late. Which I guess is ok, but I’m just over analyzing thing again.

And then last night I sent him a message asking him to call me when he was on his way to his parents house so that we could discuss when we were going to hang out again…. he never called. So yeah. I just get the feeling that this isn’t going to last much longer. Ugh! I’m going to keep giving it my best, and keep being the “old” me till he cuts it off though, I’m not giving up hope. (Private)

Last night people around here were setting off VERY loud fireworks till 2 am. For being illegal, there sure were a lot of them.

Tux and Moo have been OVERLY lovey since I got home yesterday. I’m sitting in my office chair now and tux just keeps rubbing up against me. and last night he kept head butting me all night.

I forgot to mention that I found a 1972 Edition of the BSA Fieldbook over the weekend. Nothing too old, but it’s something to add to my collection.

Anyways. I’m out. adios!

San Fran!

Well, I just got back from a VERY long weekend in San Fran. It was really good, I got pretty annoyed a lot it seems. But The trip it self was very fun.

Lets see, Friday Andrew and I left OC about 3pm. It was 2 hours before we had planned, but he got out of work early so that was a good thing. We drove up there and didn’t have any fights.. I was in a really good mood, he seemed to be as well. So it was nice. Got up there and Oksy was at a party, so she asked us to come join. At first we were going to, but then we decided it was just too late and we were both tired and wanted to go to bed. So we got her to come home and just talked for a while. This is where the first annoyance came in though. Was that I just wanted to go to bed and talk about things in the morning and she just wanted to keep talking and talking. Blah.

Anyways, we got up Saturday morning and Andrew and I took the train into San Fran. That was a nice relaxing ride. Got there and got off at Powell, from there we walked up Market to Pier 1, where there was this HUGE farmer’s market! It was so fun. I took tons of pics there. After that we walked all the way down to pier 39 and then Fishermans Warf. From ther we walked down to Ghiradelli Square.

We had amazing Ice Cream there. It was so yummy! From there we walked over to Loumbard (sp?) walked down that and then up to California Street, took that all the way over to Laguna Street and then Laguna street all the way down to Haight and Ashbury. Shopped around there for a while and then Oksy joined us there.

From there we went down to Castro and hung out there. Walked around, bought some UBER cute underwear. Went to dinner there and our waiter was an asshole.. But I said I hated the place, so it’s ok. We also went to this realy cute Coffee shop there.

After that we all went out to this little Woody’s esq place, had a drink and then headed out to another bar. This one was more Dancy and shit. Andrew and Oksy said they were going to go get a drink, and left me to sit and watch the coats and stuff. So I sit there and 30 minutes later they still aren’t back. So I get up and go find them talking to this boy. So I get really pissed off cause ONE of them could have come and got me and said, “We’re over here tlaking to someone, want to come”. But they just left me. So I handed Oksy her stuff and walked out and went back to the damn Coffee shop. Oksy follwed and I told her to jsut go back to the bar. 30 minutes later they both finially come back. And we get into this HUGE argument about what to do. I told them to just freaking leave me alone and I’ll sit there and read and for them to go back to the bar. Oksy starts yelling at me to stop being so difficult, when I wasn’t being difficult at all. I was telling them exactly what I wanted! Hello!

So they all leave and a little while later they come back with the boy they were talking to and of course he and Andrew were making out. Then they went off to some other bar. The came back and got me about midnight and we all just went home.

Sunday we all slept in and then went out to Chinatown with google boy. Oksy missed the 3 signs on the freeway that said Chinatown and then got annoyed when she got lost. We finially got parked walked to china town and ate lunch. It was nice, from there we all walked back to the MOMA (or was it MOCA?) either way. Lots of crazy art. Just the type I like. 🙂 Spent a few hours there and then went back and watche Superman.. The only thing that movie had going for it was that Superman was UBER hot! Even yummier with his hair wet! 🙂 After that Andrew and I went back to the apartment and just hung out and went to bed. Oksy and Google boy went out drinking.

Monday we again slept in and then went out to Badoga Bay, the bridge and redwoods way up north. It was really fun. I honestly think this was the best day for me. It was a really pretty drive and being out in the wilderness mademe happy. We stopped at this crazy place and had REALLy good ice cream again. 🙂

Got back into the city and things started to go downhill again. We all wanted Sushi for dinner, but it was late. I kept saying we should just stop at one of the 8 million sushi places we were driving past, but they kept insisting on going to this place way out in Mnt View that neither of them really KNEW where it was. So we got lost and of course by the time we got there it was closed. As was everthing else around. Finially at like 1030 I just got bitchy enough that we stopped at Jack-in-the-box for food. Andrew and I went back to the arpartment and Oksy and google boy went out again.

This morning we left at 8 and I dropped andrew off at 1:30ish.

Overall the trip was fun, San Fran wasn’t what I was expecting, everyone has talked it up way too much. But obviously, the wife and I are not made to spend weekends worth of time together. haha.

I called the boy after dropping Andrew off. I havne’t had hardly any time to talk to him this weekend, and his txting replys have been few and far between. Which is understandable since he was in Vegas for most of the time too. But we all know I like to over analize things and I always think things are going worse then they are when first starting out… I don’t like to keep getting my hopes up just to have them crushed a month in with some stupid breakup reason… So anyways, he said he’d call me back in 30 minutes… which meant 2:30.. well he didn’t call back till 3:30 which was a bit annoying, but it was a nice convo. short but nice. The other day he said he missed me. which made me feel really good… But he was drunk, so I’m not sure how much feeling went into it. I missed him. He also keeps talking about going out to vegas. which would be tons of fun! I really enjoy him so far because it seems he’s someone who I can say, “lets do this” and he’ll do it.. IE, the bike ride to bridge to no where.. Which we talked about doing this upcoming weekend. so hopefully that’ll happen. I also really hope this vegas trip happens. And I think he’d be a good candiate for that napa trip I was talking about in the spring. Lots of other things I think he’d like to do with me that I have on my list.

My scope today says: “Don’t fret if it feels like a relationship is falling apart. Rather, you are being given an opportunity to clarify your positions before moving forward again.” Lets hope it’s right, cause I don’t want this one to fall apart!

Robert also wants me to go to mexico with him and Mike. as well as a camping trip. i’m very excited for both. There’s not enough weekends this summer for it all! haha. well more like not enough money! 😀

Anyways. I’ve rambled enough. Adios!