dirty weekend

went to dnb's last night with mari. we met up with joel cuz he came straight from work. surprisingly, dnb's was not packed with AZN's last night, which is pretty rare for a thursday night. on a regular, half of mira mesa is there and the morse high class of 1997 is holding an event in the ballroom. we ran into a guy that we went to high school with(ron) and he works there. he hooked it up with some free games so that was cool.

weekend outlook:

• downtown tonight
• practice sat. morning.
• daryl/crystal's baby shower @ 3pm
• mari's dad's b-day dinner @ 630pm
• *karaoke w/ michelle, fred, joel, and co.
• church/marriage seminar on sunday

the shaft

so mari's dad just got a new porsche last night, and i got to drive it for a little bit. never in my life did i think that i would get to sit in, let alone drive a porsche. it was a pretty fun drive, we took it to 100 mph in 4th gear down olympic parkway, which is pretty stupid, but it was fuckin fun. im glad that her dad got the car, and he deserves it, but it was sorta bittersweet for mari. this all stems back to when mari graduated this past spring. basically, mari's dad bought mona a mercedes benz at around the same time as mari's graduation. they ended up giving mari a pretty decent sum of money. but in mari's eyes, it should have been the other way around (her parents should have gotten her the car) since she busted her butt trying to finish school, she was graduating, and mona was still unsure of when she would be finishing school. this really upset mari, and for a while she was pretty angry at her parents and at mona. i guess this is also part of the deal of being a twin, there's always gonna be some sort of jealousy/rivalry. mari and mona's relationship is not the usual relationship twins have. im sure that they love each other to death, but sometimes these two love to butt heads and get under each other's skin, and im sure the whole car situation didnt help things either. here's what the car situation is like in their family: dad: new porsche, mom: new benz, mona: new benz, mari: old toyota 4runner. so if you cant tell me who got the short end of that stick, then i dont know what to tell you. of course, i may be a little biased since she is my fiancee. sorry if it sounds superficial and shallow by complaining about a stupid car, but it is what it is.

mo money mo problems

i just got my "year-end" review today. i thought it went well, considering i was dreading having to go through with it. but im glad to have that out of the way.

fred and i are gonna meet ernie for lunch today. apparently, he works just down the street from us, but we only found out about this now. this is a classic ernie maneuver, where he's been around this whole time, but we dont know until later on in life. oh well, i still love the guy to death, even though we hardly see him anymore. i know he has more responsibilities now that he's married and has a child to look after.

things to do today:

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  lunch with ernie


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  take mari back to the dentist to get her fillings.


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  stop by babies r us to pick up a gift for daryl's/crystal's baby shower


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  have a drink

sigh

we had a meeting yesterday for the people who are going to the (company subsidized) mammoth trip thats scheduled for the weekend of april 5th. i really wanted to go, until i realized that sportsfest is that same weekend, and i dont really want to miss that.

mari and i paid a visit to a florist last thursday. we went there with a budget of about $1500, which is on the low end. i didnt realize flowers for weddings were so expensive. theres so many things/people that need flowers. lets just say that our budget wasnt quite big enough, but i guess it is what it is. i guess i didnt mind as much since our original estimate was really low.

kelvins grad party was on saturday. got to see some kids from school i havent seen in a while. (kelvin, peter, and christian). [marc and lj were there, but i see them at work. and april was there, but i see her every now and then] i was gonna go to marcos' brother's bachelor party but i got out a little later than expected. oh well, i heard it was mediocre, at best. =P

brush your teat

i had a dental appointment last night and i was just going in for a cleaning. most people absolutely hate going to the dentist. lucky for me, my dentist is also my uncle. so that makes the visit a lot less stressful for me. ive had a chipped tooth for about a year now, and it one of the back teeth, so i dont really notice it until food gets lodged in there. turns out that chipped tooth ended up being a pretty serious cavity. so right now, it has a temporary filling that has medicine to help the tooth heal, and i have to go back in one month to re-assess the tooth. if it doesnt heal or if the tooth starts causing discomfort, theres a chance im gonna have to have a root canal. on top of all of that, turns out that my wisdom teeth are growing horizontally, instead of vertically like most people. so i might have to get those removed eventually. talk about a horrible day at the dentists office. at least i got to see my uncle.

kate hudson is hot

i didnt get a chance to blog yesterday because i got caught up in my work and i completely forgot. so ill do a quick recap of my weekend. on saturday, i went to work for a few hours, then met up with the team in la jolla for a scrimmage. what a waste of time. we beat these guys pretty easily(not too sound cocky or anything) but lets just say it wasnt even close. i ended up having a couple of passes deflected and an interception. after the game, mari and i went home, washed up (each other....jk!) and went to watch that movie with kate hudson, fool's gold. i thought it was a pretty funny movie. and it helped that kate hudson looks really good in a bikini, and she is really pretty. after the movie, we went to the brewhouse at eastlake. the food and beer was excellent, too bad the service was horrible and really slow. on sunday, we went with iris, anthony, and kaleigh to sea world. mari brought her nieces and nephew along. i had a fun time, we all got fun cards, so we can go back later this year. kaleigh and mari's 2 yr old niece makeila really enjoyed being there, they loved the shows and it made it seem much easier to look after them. i had to take makeila to the potty and she just started potty training so that was an interesting experience. she ended up putting her hand on the toilet seat in the stall and i had to wash her hands a couple times just to be safe.

morning dew

im at work right now, on a saturday. i should be doing work but im too lazy to get that started. i'll probably start my work around 730.....after 2 hours of being here. we have a scrimmage today at la jolla high school at 10 am. it should be fun to play another team. its been a while since league ended. and we need to iron out some kinks on both offense and defense. kaleigh came over to play yesterday. i fed her 1/3 of a small cupcake at around 830pm, and she was bouncing off the walls right after. i have never seen her like that, it was pretty funny. mari bought her a barney dvd for valentines day and we watched it with her. i was expecting it to be like a regular barney dvd/show type thing, but it was an actual movie, with acting and other stuff that real movies had. it was weird, but kaleigh seemed to enjoy it so thats all that matters. the movie reminded me of the sesame street movie, follow that bird. when i was younger, i would watch that movie almost everyday. i even bought the dvd a couple of years ago so i could watch it again, its probably in the top 3 of my favorite movies. i even dressed up as big bird for halloween one year. i think ill go dig up that dvd and watch it this weekend. maybe i still have that big bird costume....

baker's dozen

i would have posted this earlier but i got caught up with work/playing dominoes and hackeysack.

mari and i baked cupcakes last night but we both fell asleep so i didnt get to put frosting on them until early this morning. i have yet to eat one so im not sure how they turned out. mari had one this morning after i frosted them, and she said it was delicous. she brought some to work for her co-workers. baking cupcakes reminded me of when i was younger and my mom and i would bake them so i could bring them in to school to share for my birthday. i would have done that last week, but there's too many people to bake cupcakes for here at work that it would just be too much for me to handle. but it was funny last night because i found out that mari had never made cupcakes before, so it was pretty interesting showing her the process.

i was able to pick up my xbox360 yesterday from fedex. i will play some halo3 tonight.

my god-daughter kaleigh is coming to visit later. its a good thing we made cupcakes. there's nothing better than giving a 2 yr old sugar!

have a nice weekend.

happy valentines day

for a guy that completely dislikes valentine's day, i think this day is already going pretty well. mari gave me a card and a box of my favorite chocolates in the whole world this morning, reese's minatures...but i feel so bad because i didnt get her anything (i know, i feel like a jerk!). also, when i got in to work today, i found a transformers valentine's card, along with a transformers pencil and a tootsie pop on my desk. it was from my friend marcos, and he even took the time to write a little note. haha. then later today, im going on a valentine's lunch date with fred, vanessa, shanel, and karmen. its been a while since we've gone to have pho. to top everything off, mari and i are going out for drinks later. we hate fighting the crowds, so im pretty sure dinner is out of the question. we're just gonna save ourselves for the weekend.....and we'll go out to dinner too. hahahah jk.

i guess this valentine's day thing isnt so bad. president's day is coming up on the 18th. anyone want in?

cash monies

ive been doing a lot of overtime lately here at work, which is sorta unusual since i havent put in that much overtime ever since i started here. i did 5 hours on saturday, and i worked 10 hours the past 2 days. im sure the extra cash should help out once we start paying for more things for the wedding.

my xbox360 got the red ring of death a few weeks ago. its a pretty common hardware failure for the console and i think it happens to about half the consoles sold. i was pretty bummed when it happened because my xbox360 gets more lovin than the ps3 (i dont have any games yet for the ps3, only blu-ray movies). i checked the repair status of my xbox360 yesterday, and it says that they shipped it out already. so its scheduled to arrive at my house tomorrow. hopefully someone's home to sign for it cuz ive really missed it. ive got some catching up to do on rock band, halo3, and cod4.

i think mari and i are gonna go have bloody mary's tomorrow. we've been wanting to get some for sometime already. maybe we'll go to marie callendar's for their happy hour, or maybe dnb's cuz their's is good too (but its azn night). ya'll are welcome to join us.

duped

i came to the realization this morning, as i was taking a shower (of all places!), that i got tricked yesterday. so yesterday, i get an innocent email from fred, asking me, shanel, vanessa, and karmen to go have pho on thursday. so several emails are exchanged, and we're all completely excited and aroused to go have pho on thursday. but while i was in the shower this morning, i thought of how we are all gonna go out to eat pho on thursday, i realized, valentine's day is on thursday! fred totally tricked me into going on a valentine's date with him. i couldn't believe it! normally i dont believe in valentines day, since i think its pretty much a "holiday" hallmark made up so they could sell cards and candy hearts that have little messages on them. but i guess i'll let this one slide, since i love pho, and i wear a condom 24/7.

let this serve as a warning to all the women out there. this guy is good, and he will get you sooner or later.

take two.

i know its been quite a while since the last entry. here's a quick summary on what's been going on in my life since....

• celebrated the holidays with the family. i bought my parents a new imac, and i got a pretty spiffy black nixon watch from mari. it was the first christmas in a while where ive actually had some money to spend on getting people things they need.
• spent new year's eve at big night san diego at the sheraton harbor island with mari, mary miracle, and iris along with their significant others. had tons of fun and really enjoyed the open bar. if you dont know what to do for new year's eve next year(or is it this year), and have a $100 to drop, i would definitely suggest considering attending this event.
• spent new year's day throwing up...see above.
• went to vegas for the pr0n convention with the boys...but mari and iris were there the same weekend, so that was cool even though they went separately. we flew straight from work on thursday and we left vegas monday morning and went straight to work from the airport. crazy!
• went to rumjungle at the mandalay bay and did bottle service and mingled with some pr0n stars. watched the chargers/colts game at espnzone and enjoyed seeing the look on the colts fans after we kicked their asses again.
• wedding plans are slowly falling into place. its a very stressful but exciting process, depending on how you look at it. we made it a point to really clamp down on getting stuff done once january rolled around. im glad im not planning the bachelor party, but that's what im looking forward to the most.
• just "celebrated" my 26th birthday last week. i still feel like a little kid, but with adult priveleges...some people say i still look like a little kid, which is cool, unless im at the casino and get carded 10 times an hour.
• went to strauss last thursday. good fun, good food, good people. too bad theyre not having any more keg tapping parties. time to look for another venue.
• april got on my case for not updating my blog.....hi april!
• ate at ra sushi and went to on broadway on friday night to "celebrate" some more. probably wasnt the best idea, since i was supposed to work early saturday morning.
• went up to torrance after work on saturday for my cousin's 18th birthday. she had relatives and some of her friends over for the party. i felt so old being around her and her friends...oh well.