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Trip Ends…

Wow. This trip is over already! I haven’t blogged at all, been way too busy. I’m really excited to leave and at the same time I don’t want too. As I sit here writing just this I’m starting to tear up. There’s a lot of people I didn’t get to see this trip, and I’m sad about that. Also a lot of things that I like doing while here that I didn’t get to do either.

Anyways, going back a few days. Thursday I landed here and went out house shopping with my dad. I think we saw nearly 7 houses, only one or two good ones. The one I had really hoped would be good wasn’t so much. It was a 4 plex in Ankeny, 2 of the tenants had been there 5+ years, the other had just moved in and was a nanny for the other two, and the third were college students. We got to tour the college students apartment. Smelled of pot. Filthy. The building itself was ok. But it had a huge lot and tons of parking. Which means lots of monthly maint. Ugh. The others were good. The one we saw that day that we liked the most had a ton of cats in it, but overall was a nice place. My dad is going to have an inspection done to see what kind of money we have to put into it. We saw two others that day that we really liked from the outside, but the tenatns were not allowing people in to view them. So those are probably no-gos.

I also went out to Java’s with Andrew that night. I saw him for like a whole 2 seconds before they all left. I honestly really hate where our friendship has gone too.

Friday I slept in and my god, I can’t remember what I did friday! I know I went out with Oksy. I think that was Friday. We went shopping and bought Jullian’s gift. I really hope that he likes it, because well. We couldn’t find the thing that Dean had told us he wanted. I drove down to the G&G’s house after that with the couz, couz’s bf, spawn and aunt. I was driving, with three people who get car sick! Not a good combination! haha.

Saturday was Christmas #1 at the G&G’s house. That was good times. The Evil Aunt wasn’t so evil this year, but she hounded my brother. Lots of drama there. I ate WAY too much, but had a great time. I got a baking sheet, Not for Tourists LA book, Wallace&Gromit, Chicken Noodle Soup, A recipie book, $70 in cash (all spent already), and some other general things that I can’t remember right now. It was a good christmas. The table was full, we can’t add anyone else, but we sure need more mouths to eat all the food!

Came home from that with the same crew on the way down. The aunt drove this time, so less car sick complaining. 🙂 Got home from there and went out for a while, low key night.

Sunday I got up and my dad and I went out house shopping again. Saw a few horrible places, although one had a car in the drive way with a rainbow sticker. I’d hate to meet the homo that would live in that area though! lol. That night we did the family christmas. I got an ISU jersey, another wallace&gromit movie, pirates movie, all four harry potter movies, a knife, some other books and more general stuff that I can’t remember! 🙂 Hung around with the family that night and then went out again for a while. Another low key night.

Monday was the GmaS’ side of the family. These people are all crazy. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, I really don’t have anything to talk to most of them about. It was a good time, my cousin on that side brought a guy along, my grandma thought he looked mexican and made some mean comments about that. He was nice, so we’ll see. It will be entertaining to see what she says when I bring someone home. 🙂 I got a calendar. I still REALLY hate that damn idea. Next year it’s “movie themed” what the fuck? We had 2 turkeys and a ham, sooo good. God I’m fat now!

I also had to hand out the gifts on that side of the family. They keep expanding I can never remember any of the new people’s names. Plus there’s so damn many Bob’s that I get them all confused. I only see them once a fucking year. Whatever. I actually got a donation out of one of them though. I hope the rest of them donate or something at least. We’ll see what happens.

Monday night I went out again to a couple bars downtown. Zach got very drunk, it was an enjoyable night.

Tuesday was more house shopping. Saw only 5 places. 1 of which was worthy. In one of them we were going through this one guys place. Walk in and there’s 40’s ALL OVER the kitchen. Walk into the living room and there’s a bed in there, nothing else.. Go up stairs to the two bed rooms, empty! Open up a closet….

DILDOS! LEATHER! BUTT PLUGS! You name it, it was there… This guy was into some kinky shit. I really wanna know who the gay guy is that lives on 37th Street! hahah.

Tuesday night I went out with Angel, and then to the porn store. I tried getting DavidB to hang out with me, but he was “too tired”. I’m so sick of people who say. “Oh I really want to hang out with you when you are in town” but then when you try to hang out with them, they are too tired or busy with something else or what not. UGH! So fucking annoying.

Today (wed), I went out with Beak to lunch and then came home and packed and did some random house shit to try and narrow it down to which house we should buy. The two we liked we can’t make money on. The one next one down we can make money on, but it’s too much for the amount of work that will need to go into it. I think we’re going to put low ball offers in on the top two and see what happens. The top one, still has a gravity furnace, which is A) HUGE! and B) needs to be replaced. lol.

Like I said earlier, I’m excited to be leaving, but sad at the same time. I want to be back in my bed and back to my schedule. Away from all the food and the crazyness of my family. It makes me really sad to be back here though and see how much things are changing. Everytime I come back more and more of the beautiful farmland that makes Iowa is gone and replaed with horrible crappy looking cookie-cutter condos and subrubia. I hate it all. I hate suburbia, I hate urban sprawl, I hate big box stores, I hate strip malls, I hate it! It’ so sad to drive from my parents house over into Ankeny and have it all so close now, I hate sitting out in the hot tub at nights now and instead of seeing the amazing stars, darkness and hearing the bucks in the back yard, all you see now is the city lights and hear the neighbor kids screaming and yelling.

So far I’ve loved the big cities: Paris, Berlin, Chicago, etc. But it’s just so sad to see all this pristine land being eaten up by this shit. I need my space sometimes and Iowa used to be that place. Now I can’t even get away from this crap here.

I will have to say that I still ove the fact that you can be out driving around at 5:30pm and not have to worry about traffic! At least not yet. They keep building like this and soon DM will be just like LA.

My Flight is supposed to start boarding in 1 minute. There’s no plane here yet!!

I’ve also spent a lot of the trip thinking about Mayko and hashing it out with my friends to see how I feel. I like him, but the thing is to look into the future, do I see myself with him? Would I bring him home to the family and introduce him? The answer… I think Yes. I would. I’m still a little shy of the idea of him being in college and stuff, but I think in the long run whatever happens, happens and hopefully that’ll be something good? Maybe.

The plane just arrived…. Hopefully we’ll be boarding soon.

Good bye all!

Pics are on the photodump

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!

Flight Home

Oh god, 11.5 hours in ONE flight, is death. I hate it… They keep replaying the SAME movies over and over again and they are all stupid. We only have 1.5 horus left. Thank god! I’d have to say that leaving Berlin was sad. However, I’m excited to get home. I want to crash, and yet… I want to do a lot of other stuff, bake a pie, a turkey, some mashed potatos… SHIT, the stores are all going to be closed! I have no fooood at home! Damnit… Still debating about a bike ride this weekend or not. I do have a date though!

There’s three HOT boys within viewing distance of me.. OMG, yum! Also some really gay guy keeps walking by me and smiling. He’s kinda cute…

Ok, adios all.

PS. Pictures are up on the photodump.

Exhausting Weekend… But GREAT!

Wow, what a LONG weekend. I was barely home long enough to sleep all weekend.

Lets see, Friday I worked in Newport Beach. It was a really long day down there. Got out of work and went and picked up my bike. They yelled at me. 🙁 Apparently I need to lube the chain everytime I ride. They never told me that when I bought it! Either way, it’s all happy now!

After that I met up with Robert and Austin and we all had dinner together. That was entertaining.

[private]After diner Austin and I headed over to his place. We just spent the night in the hot tub / steam room and watching movies. It was really good to just hang out with him again like old times. Just chilling and chatting and having a good time. I spent the night there, I offered to sleep on the couch, but he said it’d be ok if I slept in the bed and it wouldn’t cause any problems…. And for an hour or so it was fine, but then he rolled over and started cuddling with me. God, I have to admit it was SO nice having someone to cuddle with again. But I’m not getting wrapped up in that mess again! So we cuddled all night.

Jason kept calling him all freaking night though (well not like while we were sleeping, but just while we were hanging out). It was annoying as hell.

Anyways, Saturday we got up and went to this breakfast thing at Austin’s community. It was wierd, lots of old people and the guy cooking the pankakes clearly had no idea how to make them. Still fun, we sat out on the porch overlooking the backbay, which was nice.

After that we were going to go horseback riding, but it was $40 for an hour, so We didn’t want to pay that. Instead we went shopping for sheets and curtians for Austin’s room. Went to Burlington Coat factory and found some good ones there, but nothing that Austin liked. I think we spent like an hour with him going back and forth. Then we went to Linen’s and Things. Came inside the door and there were these little hand held massage thing. Austin grabbed one to use on his neck.. But while we were shopping he kept putting it on my crotch. It was very exciting. 🙂 HAHAH. He did the same thing when we went to bed, bath and beyond. Ugh. I need to get laid!

He didn’t find anything in either of those places, so we went to Wal-Mart. He finially found curtians that he liked and he also found a bed spread he liked but ended up not getting it. Went back to his place, hung up his curtians and then I home cause I was exauhsted. I crashed shortly after getting home.

Like I said, it was so good to spend a day with Austin again, like back in the early days of our meeting/hanging out. I just wish that he’d dump Orlando, because he clearly isn’t good for him. I think jason would be a better choice, although probably not the right one, considering how much he complains about him already. [/private]

It was really wierd spending saturday down in my old area. Just so strange how quickly things have already changed. I really don’t miss it at all.

Sunday I got up at 6am and went up to Santa Monica to do the bike ride. On my drive up there I passed an accident in which a guy had been hit by a mini-van. That really sucked. It had JUST happened too cause the ambulance wasn’t there yet or anything. I could see it coming though.

Got to the ride and there was a REALLY cute boy there. He was wearing a jersey that looked like a tux. It was so adorable, and he was cute! Ugh! Why don’t I talk to these people! He was being very friendly with one of the other riders though, so who knows if they were together or not. The ride was spectacular, although VERY long. Ugh. We rode along PCH as well, which was a bit scary at times.

Made it back and then drove up the street to the infamous gym again and showered, no hot boys staring at me in the locker room this time though. 🙁 From there I drove to downtown LA for Charles Phoenix’s DISNEYLANDTOUR OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES. You can see a short clip on YouTube:

And of course I have my pics from the day up on the Photodump. It was a really interesting tour. I really enjoyed it. We even got a special treat and got to see Bob Baker perform. Although was tired as hell by the time it was over with! Its sad that some really great areas of Downtown are so horrible and dirty and gross. They’d be amazing if they cleaned it up some.

After that I was supposed to meet up with this guy Bryan. But he never got back to me, so I just went home. Thank god too, cause I basically crashed in bed.

Good news, I leave THIS FRIDAY for Berlin. I’m so excited! And THE FRAY is on Wed! OMG! This week is BUSY! Brian is coming up Tuesday so that I can show him where all the stuff is at, because he’s taking care of my kitties while I am in Berlin. He seems excited to have a place on the beach. 🙂

Ok, well I should get back to work. Later all!