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Meri vs Mary

A while back I was listening to Dr Laura again… This woman called in bitching that her name was “Meri” and she was SOOO tired of spelling it. Get over it woman! It’s not a big fucking deal. Do you know how much I have to spell my last name!? My last name is a fucking COLOR for gods sake! AND STILL people need it spelled for them! She said that she wanted to be unique and “herself”, she didn’t like the name her mother gave her. Stupid people.

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I know nothing has happened yet and it could be even a YEAR before anything does happen, but I’m already freaking out about this building being sold. I did the math and at the price it’s being sold for. There’s NO WAY you can make money at the current income level (In fact you’d lose about $100k a year). Which means that as soon as it’s sold. We’ll all be outta here. IE Moving again. I started looking today and there’s nothig good. Plus if I move again, the company has already made it clear they would like me back down in the Newport Beach office.

In general I’m not happy here. But I now LOVE where I live. When I was living down there I hated it. I’m not sure I can go back to living down there. Plus then I’d have to go back to making new friends down there, etc etc etc. Plus the cost of moving again. UGH! I hope that he can’t find a buyer. But it really explains a lot. I had an idea back when I moved in that’s probably what he was going to do. But now it’s all confirmed.

This mess also throws a wrench in my plans. I really wanted to get back into school. A language class this spring and then maybe start my MBA this fall. But alas, now I’m not even sure I should go to the spring classes because I might have to up and leave in the middle!

I did talk to my boss yesterday about starting my MBA, he sounded thrilled that I wanted to, and said that the company would be more then willing to work around any school schedule. Just as long as I get my work done.

Last night I watched Little Miss Sunshine and then Nic came over again. We were chatting online and he basically BEGGED to come over. So I allowed it even though I was in my PJs. We hung out and watched Trading Spouses. I can never get over how crazy that show is. I had a good time at least. While we were saying bye, I thought he was going to move in for a kiss. But he didn’t, maybe next time.

I went to bed after he left and someone called me at 10pm. I had applied for this part-time job as a Project Manager in Newport Beach, they were calling me back to do interviews at 10pm! So we talked for a while, it sounds really fun and interesting, but they were just going to require too much time.

The internet here in my Cube has been broken since Saturday AND Sunday when I came into the office. So I’ve been stealing Wireless from somewhere else. It’s very annoying because I called the HD yesterday and they said they would look into it. This was after I’d already wasted two hours waiting for them to get into the office. An hour later they call and say “It should all be working, we can’t find any problems.” So I tell them it’s clearly not working yet and she says she’ll have to talk to her supervisor. Another hour goes by, still nothing. So I talk to my boss and he tells me to just go home. Of course they call like 10 minutes after I leave again saying that they can’t find anything wrong! Clearly they DIDN’T even COME to my cube to see what the problem was! I come in this morning. and it’s STILL NOT WORKING! (Yes, I have access to the INTERNET, but whoever I’m stealing wireless from has VPN blocked, which is what I need to do work. So I can sit here and browse the internet all day, but I can’t do any real work.)

I’m starting to really notice some great differences in my arms and chest from going to the gym. I’m enjoying flexing in the mirror at home. 🙂 I’ve also started picking up running more. I’m doing between 12-15 minutes each day I hit the gym. Which for me is just over a mile of running. The longest I’ve ever ran for in my life! haha. The only problem is that once I hit that time frame I get bored and just stop. Also the last month or so there’s been these three older ladies who go to the gym every MWF just like me.. And EVERY time they go there, it’s the same thing for each machine. “I forget how to do this”…”How much weight are we supposed to use”…”Am I doing this right”. For gods sake, remember people! Write it down, jesus! It’s soo annoying. And then there’s this other REALLY big guy who always wears this really dark sunglasses and spends the whole time talking on his cell phone. Just annoying.

I haven’t heard back from my realtor about the place in Iowa. I’m guessing that’s bad news, or the sellers are just holding out to see if they get a better offer. My dad is heading out this week to look at some more places which based on the numbers look better. But we shall see. One of them is basically next door to my Aunt, that could be a little strange.

MacWorld San Francisco is today. I’m very excited for some of the rumored products. The “iPhone” is cool, and would be revolutionary for the industry, but probably won’t be something I get. The “iTV” on the other hand is something that looks REALLY cool and would totally be something I’d get at the right price and if it integrates into my existing streaming media setup!

I know I’ve complained about this before, that there wasn’t any good Torrent clients for the Mac… Well behold! XTorrent! I LOVE it. It’s still in beta, so I’m hoping they will be adding more features, like IP blocking, file skipping, etc. But it’s a clean and amazing interface. And with the built in search functions! Oh. I’m in heaven. I don’t like that you have to pay for it, but as long as they add the missing features I would gladly pay for it.

Last Wed I went out with this guy Hector to Here (Go read about it). We’ve always hung out as just friends and just to chill. I met him a little under a month ago. Anyways, I talked to him last Thrusday on AIM, and then this weekend I was out and about so didn’t really talk to him. Sunday night I noticed that one of my friends was suddenly awol from myspace. So I start looking around but all the people that I figured would be deleting me were still there (IE Mayko). So I didn’t really pay too much attention. Well Yesterday I go to AIM Hector, it says he’s offline for my main account, but online for my secondary and third AIM accounts.. Very strange. So I check my myspace friends again. He’s gone! WTF?! I txt message him.. “Why did you delete me from myspace and block me from AIM?”… No Reply… So I send him a myspace message.. “what did i do to you to deserve being ignored!?”… NOTHING! Seriosuly what is wrong with people. I did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to him. NOTHING AT ALL! We hung out last wed and had a good time, and now he’s completely ignoring me?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE! UGH

This friday is Guerrilla Gay Bar. So everyone mark your calendars and come join me!

Sorry for such a long entry! Adios!

Offer and Undies!

I’m slowly making it into the new year… Things are moving along. Work yesterday, Bike ride and shopping with Jason. Good times.

As per usual, I feel really down and sad. Etc.

Put an offer in on a house yesterday. That was the high point of the day, I’d have to say.

I love Underwear!

And so you look good in that underwear, how about some Smoothie Recipes?

Ugh. Boys! They make me sad.

Bush is such a fucking idiot! “President Bush requests line-item veto power” … “We’ve got to make sure we spend the people’s money wisely” … OMG! What about all these things when your buddies were in power. You’re just NOW figuring this out? After HOW MANY YEARS in office. Can’t someone just hang him already!? And then leak the video to Youtube?

Tchau!

About the Worst New-Year

So I’ll tell you about it. Here’s what happened…

Saturday night I headed out to LAX to pick up Andrew. When I left my house at 9:45, it said his flight was only 6 minutes late. However he didn’t actually land till nearly 10:30. Drove him up to his car and then headed off to the Abbey.

Met up with Hector, Jess and Chiba… Along with all of their respective friends. It was a huge mess. I was trying to talk to all of them at the same time, and just not working out well at all. The Abbey was pretty fun though, etc. After that Chiba and I went out to pizza after. Ended up having 2 randoms from way up north sit with us and chatting. I really like that whenever he and I go out somewhere there are some random people who end up talking to us. It’s very fun. Some cute, but REALLY fem guy came up and started talking to me as well… When he left he said, “Keep on smiling”. Very strange!

Drove back to Chiba’s place after that and we went to bed about 5am. I woke up about 11ish Sunday, all ready to go and do something. But Chiba didn’t wake up till nearly 2pm. By that time it was too late to do the things that I had wanted to do Sunday, so we ended up just going out to dinner and then back to his place and watching Harry Potter. He started getting ready to go at 8pm.. We didn’t leave till 10pm. He seriously changed like 3 times. I was very annoyed by the time we left. We called this place called Geisha House and made reservations for 11pm. Get there, and have to wait 15 minutes in line…. JUST to get to the front desk to tell them we have reservations. Then come to find out, they are still seating people who had reservations at 9:45pm!! HELLO! Why did they not fucking tell us that when we called!?

So we left, and went over to his friend’s house. It was like 11:30 when we get there, and I’m pissed. They just stand around talking, and we leave like 10 till midnight to get to the Abbey. NO WAY. So I spent my new years in a fucking car. SO ANNOYING.

Douglas, the other guy in the car. Said “what’s the big deal”. Exucse me, the WHOLE deal about new years is the 10 seconds before and the 20 seconds after midnight. The count down and then the celebration. GOD I was so fucking annoyed.

So we get to the abbey and I decide to have a drink… 151 and coke. Normally these come in a short glass.. This guy gave me a BIG glass. I was so drunk. And I HATED that feeling as well, god no more drinking! After while at the Abbey, Douglas and Phil wanted to go to Mickey’s, which I have only heard horrible things about. And since I hadn’t eaten since 2pm. I was starving. So Mayko and I went to the pizza place again. And again we ended up talking to random people. I had to pee after that, so Mayko went off to meet up with them and I stood in line for what felt like an hour to pee. Went down to meet up with them and some guy at a stop light grabbed my arm and wanted to talk with me. Very random!

Got down to Mickey’s and they are walking towards me, saying they are ready to leave. I feel like that was my fault because I bitched about going there. I didn’t want to make them leave if they didn’t want too. Anyways, so on the ride home, Mayko and I start talking and all of a sudden he says, “I don’t think I’m ready for a relationship right now”

UGH! WHY does this always fucking happen to me. God damnit. So we get back to his house at like 3:30am. I’m still pretty damn drunk. But I’m sure not going to stay at his house now. So I walk out and drive home. Got there about 4:30am and went to bed.

(Private)

Me: So what after all baby this and baby that. You have nothing to say? What were you just trying to fuck me? You really hurt me, i liked you a lot.

Mayko: I need more time to think. I am sure that I did the mistake to treat you as a boyfriend because you are always very nice. But I don’t know if i could handle it right now.

Me: You hurt me a lot.

Mayko: Chris Please, that wasn’t my intention don’t want to make you feel like that. I gues we should have done this converstaion before.

Me: We did.

Mayko: About relationship?

Me: Yes, the first week we hung out. I asked you what you were looking for.

Mayko: Did You get home safe?

Me: Does it Matter… I wish this didn’t happen. I liked you a lot.

Mayko: Chris I like you too but I need more time to think if we could start a relationship right now.

Me: Fine, I guess. But I am very hurt. I guess we should have talked about it more then once.

Mayko (NEXT DAY): Chris are you ok? How are you?

Me: No, I am not. I am a very sensitive person.

Mayko: I am feeling so bad.

Me: I am sorry you feel that way, but you need to make the right decision, not just an emotional one. So think about what you want please.

Mayko: I am feeling more bad because you are such a nice person for me!

(/private)

So we talked some more on Monday, but nothing really productive. So yeah, new year starts off with me getting dumped! UGH.

In other news. I couldn’t sleep this morning, so I came into the office about 4am.. Also last year, I received 31,985 emails, that I KEPT! I averaged over 250 e-mails a day in all kinds of things. But I only kept an average of 88 per day.

My new years resolution? 1) Layoff the men. 2) Go back to school.

Tchau.

Berlin – Day #4

Today’s the last real day we have to roam around late at night… Guess what, we’re not going to be doing that again. I’m getting really annoyed with her slowness. We had a great day though. Did two muesums (Pergamon and Altes), then I left her and went over to way east berlin (what a mess) and did some shopping. Didn’t find anything that I was looking for. VEry annoyed by that. After that I did some more shopping in Alexanderplates, and found some chocolates and stuff to bring back to the office. I still have three presents to buy. I know what two of them are going to be, I just have to actually buy them, the last one I still don’t know what it is!

After that we went to Ku’damm, which was fun. Again, slowness was the anoyingness. WE didn’t get to cover near as much as I would have liked to have done. But oh well. We saw a good chunk of it. It’s also a bit annoying though because she’s not very experimental with the food. IE, we ate at PIzza Hut today. I feel so fat from that. I want to go out to the pink district, but it’s so far away on the train and again, I feel really bad abot leaving her here alone. Perhaps on the next trip… If there ever is one.

It’s making me realy sad that I don’t have a bf here either. And why can’t I be more outgoing and agressive in getting a random makeout or something too. Ugh. I’m nearly on tears sometimes. It’s a completely random country… I should be able to pick SOMEONE up!

I’ve had dreams about Austin every night since we got here… Very distrubing.

WEll shower time, tomorrow is the concentration camp and then some big palace thing. It’s a light day, if we are back early enough perhaps I will go to the pink district then to just check itout and then come home to pack. We have to be up at 4am thursday to catch the train to the airport. We did a dry run tonight for Angel so that she’s not lost!

The Fray & Germany Day 1

The Fray… SUCKED! SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED!

The band rocks, normally. Last night I loved the music, the lights, all the fucking HOT boys in the audience, but the vocals just SUCKED. You could NOT understand a WORD he was saying. We left even before the show was over.

[private]And of course robert was a fucking IDIOT! Screaming sexual things the whole time, talking about retarded stuff. He asked me like 2 times if I had been to Germany before. He should know me better then that! He told me he broke up with his ex-bf because after 2 months he said, “I love you”… I think that TWO MONTHS is plenty of time. UGH! What a fucking idiot. And because his ass was an HOUR late, we had to stand WAY in the back. When I got there I could have been like FRONT ROW![/private]

And to top off the horrible night.. traffic GETTING there was HELL! 2.5 hours to go 11.9 miles. YES 2.5 HOURS to go 11.9 MILES! It took me over an HOUR just to go the .5 (yes, HALF A FUCKING MILE) from my office to the freeway! THIS iS INSANE, the lights here in santa monica are RETARDED! ONE car would get through the intersection for EVERY TWO light rotations! OBSURD!

But did I mention the HOT HOT HOT boys that were in the audience, omg! And the opening band was great. So that’s good.

That night I went home, the power was out and was STILL out at 6am when I got up for work. I was on the freeway by 6:30 and the damn thing was at a stand still already! How do people DEAL! I just wish that LA had a GOOD public transport system! I also had an amazing dream that night… I was working at a resturant somewhere, and these three HOT, and I mean the hottest boys you will ever see.. 6’3”, muscles, yum yum! Anyways, they came in and I went home with them! 😉 haha.

Thursday I worked and did 8 million other things

Well, it’s now Saturday morning, 12:53am for LA, 9:53am for me here in Brussels. What a mess this

trip has been already, but lets not get ahead of ourselves….

Going back to Thursday. I went to work, and did some random stuff. Left about noon and went home to pack and clean and do whatnot. Also worked out in there and lots of other random stuff. Met up with Bryan, he was 30 minutes late, which I was not happy about since my day had been so full already. But it was nice to finially meet him and hang out. I had a good time, althogh we have very different tastes in music/movies. But sometimes that can be a good thing. No? I’d be interested in hanging out with him again.

Went to bed fairly early, got up early and went to the airport, no real problem getting in there, but I was in the wrong line at first. Apparently there are now different lines for if you are traveling internationally. Who knew!

Got on the first flight and sat next to two Executives of Victoria Secret. They talked business the whole trip. It was fairly annoying. I also read the book Austin gave me. Learned a lot. Apparently I am doing all the “right” things to meet guys, just not following through with it all. Or something. A lot of the advice about meeting people didn’t really pertain becase I’m gay and what not. But still a good book.

That flight = 5 hours. Ugh! And I am never flying American Airlines again. The flights were seriously like a flying refrigerator.

Got to JFK, and for some reaosn had to go BACK through security. Very annoying. This flight was supposed to have been 6.5 hours, but we were two hours late getting off the ground, so 8.5 hours on that plane.. Again, flying refrigerator. I was freezing to death the whole time. I spent most of flight thinking about what I had done wrong with Jay based on the book. Ugh. Also slept a lot, but clearly not enough. There was a sscreaming child in front of me.

Got to Brussels and they came on the intercom. “If you are staying here, please do not get out of your seat. If you are getting these 5 connections you must RUN to your gate.” My gate was A57… I was in B32. So we all get up and theres this guy BLOCKING the whole isle reading something…. oh and REALLLLLLLLLY hot boys on that flight. OMG!! Some guy starts yelling at the blocking guy and people start moving. So I get off the flight and start running to my gate.. I swaer it was 8 miles away. Had to go through not ONE but TWO, yes TWO security check points, get to gate A57, and NO PLANE!!! I start to panic, but before I get too crazy I check the monitor… I have to be in A50!!! Bastards on the plane lied.. Oh well, i get there and they are just starting to board, so I run to pee and come back.

The boys working the airport in Brussels… to DIE for, so fucking cute! And the accent. OMG!

BTW, I forgot to print out directions/address of our hostel. Hopefully I make it there! Food time now! Yay for good food on these flights.!