4 posts tagged “beauty”
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Booga and Brody - Collaborative Works In Progress.
Just because this is The Internet, you get the disclaimer. If your place of employment doesn't care if you surf it at work, then it's probably okay. There are some nudie bits in the drawings though... but they're just drawings.
Gahh. Their work (collectively and separately) is so GOOD. I love it. Michelle proves that there's more to life than just drinking your way through the weekend. If any of you people are in the PA/Ohio area, please go check their stuff out and support it.
::wayne's world moment::
I was out biking the other night, and thought (as I so often do on my boardwalk travels), that the scenery (minus people) really can't be beat. The expanses of sand, palms, waves and various beauty still take me by surprise sometimes... it's such a far cry from the familiar urban sights of my hometown.
Sharing is caring. Here are some a few shots of my evening adventures, there is a "SoCal Scenery" album over on my Myspace photos if you care to see all of them. I have about 30 in there since I'm doing a new painting and want some references.
Oh yeah, I thought I'd take some shots to display The Shiny as well. The textures came out pretty nicely, although I'm sad that one of the shots blurred a bit. My favorite was originally the first one, now I think it might be the third.
It feels like this past week has taken much longer to get through than preceding weeks. For those of you who've been paying attention, my Mondays are like your Sundays, so I usually spend them just chillin' here in front of the PC. After this entry it will be oatmeal time, and then probably work-on-the-apartment time. Things are going well with that and it's starting to look decent.
So.... a week ago. Monday. I went to visit Ivonne and saw her beautiful bebe, Miss Princess Reza. That kid is just too much, goodness gracious. Then it was time to meet with Teresa to play catch-up over food. Ivonne convinced me to go to Tajima but between my car acting up and Teresa not wanting to go, we went somewhere much closer: Rancho's. So a trip to Tajima is in the works, and whoever wants to go, hit me up.
After Rancho's my car was dropped off at the shop to the tune of a new light panel/headlight, 2 new tires and some front-end alignment. Scratch that, I didn't have a ride home so I came back on Tuesday to drop it off in the morning. Around 430 my coworker helped me out and gave me a ride over - however they didn't have the paperwork done so they let me just take the car, and said I could do the paperwork and pay when the light panel came in. SWEET! Free stuff is nice. It came in sometime on Friday, so I swung by on my lunch to have them install it.
They then discovered that one of the gasket valves was leaking some uber-flammable sh*t all over my exhaust, which apparently meant they were surprised my car hadn't caught on fire like... last week. Not sweet. They were going to have to order a valve and steam-clean my engine, which brought my total up from 250 to 370, and you know.... that sucks but I don't want to get blown up. Anyway, 90 minutes later they gave me a ride back to work and I stayed until 6 to make up the time.
Saturday I biked to work at 1130, and discovered that it was pretty freaking dark out an hour or so before I had to go home. J gave me a ride home, and managed to walk in during the middle of a screaming match in my office... between an autistic security guard and one of our event coordinators. SWEEEEEEEEEET. Got home right around 8 and prepared to go see Flight of the Navigator (DER FLUG DES NAVIGATORRRRS) with Mel. The original plan was to go to LA with her and Teresa on Sunday for a day of girly tourism, but my car being out of commission sort of stopped that. Since she lives Way The Hell Up In Carlsbad, and Teresa didn't really feel like going out much, the plan was for her to roll to the movies with me, crash overnight at my place, and then just hang out Sunday (yesterday).
Things worked out very well. The movie was great, we passed out immediately after getting home, and woke up somewhere around 11 before heading out to breakfast. Then it was a quick trip by my work to walk around before heading to my favorite beach. We hung out for a good while there, marveling over how we can never see the forest for the trees and watching a cute little family enjoy the day. We made a quick stop at my other favorite mediation spot, and although they've fenced in the houses and planted more shrubbery (NO HERRINGS THOUGH), the bench is still there and the view is still spectacular.
On the way back we picked up A Steak and some salad-makin' ingredients, then went to hang out on my roof with the food, seriously enjoying the remainder of the day. There were no neighbors out, the weather was gorgeous, and it was just like a little tiny bit of heaven.
In summary, I love George's (and totally have that same umbrella), but...
Salad of Justice, including leftover ingredients which will last me several days: under $20
Steak of Doom for Two: $6.50
Recreating a George's experience in the comfort of my own home basically for free: PRICELESS
In summary, yesterday was a very very fantastic day, and it made me really appreciate living here.
Just got home from the gym about an hour ago. The first thing I did was heat up a can of vegetable soup, with some fresh cherry-sized mozzarella cheese balls, a little bread & butter, and some olives. It tasted so good, you have no idea. I'm kicking around the idea of having a cupcake too, but that might wait.
I haven't been eating much because I'm on one of my rockstar diets --what some of you may refer to as poverty-- so the actual hunger hasn't been around so often. However one of the main side effects of working out, coincidentally, is hunger. Your body burns up a bunch of calories and gets the blood flowing, and the digestive system gets to going. The goal is to eat enough to get rid of the hungry feeling and not gorge on everything in sight.
Another goal is to eat healthy. Not just by ordering the medium (instead of the Supersize) at McDonald's either - our bodies have a tough --if not impossible-- time processing all that pre-processed stuff. J has recently had a really evil flare-up of psoraisis, which has been progressing slowly towards WTF territory over the past six weeks or so. He's got a doctor's appointment tomorrow which will hopefully clear things up, poor bebe. Also they will hopefully tell him he needs fresh air and to let me do all the shopping so I can get us some really healthy things. Like veggies, fruits, raw milk, et cetera. I miss eating well and I miss having money to buy things you don't have to microwave.
Tomorrow morning is my first session (of five) with Rachel... yes, a personal trainer. These sessions got paid for in late 2006, possibly early October. Now that I've got some free time I made the choice to use them up right away and get a good schedule going. It will probably take me about two weeks to get a job so in between applications, interviews and working on a portfolio I plan on working out. Maybe even making some money in between if I'm lucky... and not being lucky isn't an option since I don't currently have enough for February's rent.
Let's not think about that right now. Let's think about positive things, like the 750-piece puzzle spread out on my kitchen table, the one with the border almost done. Or maybe walking on the beach tomorrow... or finishing one of the three projects that are about half done. Or even better, cleaning the apartment. A good housecleaning burns a serious amount of calories and helps your feng shui, and what's wrong with that?
As some of you know (and fewer of you care), I'm bipolar. The short version is MOOD SWINGS. Right now my mood is swinging as a delicate balance between manic happy productivity and crushing depression. The goal is just to keep busy and not think too far ahead.
Another bad idea is to go grocery shopping when you're hungry, especially at 9 p.m. right after working out. Just don't. However if you have no real food in the house then you may make an exception and pick up some healthy stuff. Um, Lean Cuisine? I love you.
On that note I'm going to have a few more olives ('cause they're mm-mm-good!) and then maybe relax with some tea. Perhaps I'll try to tackle the rest of that puzzle while everything digests.
