Blah...
Good weekend. Happy Belated Birthday Tinz, hope you had a great time on your birthday!!! But now it's the work week and I'm blah. Yeah, I'm pretty blah for this week. Maybe it's the weather, I don't know.

Actually, I think I'm blah this week because I'm kinda stressing right now just for something I have to do on Wednesday. After Wednesday I should be all good though. I just want it to be over with so I can relax. Yeah...it shouldn't be so bad though, right? 3 hours and it'll be over with...

Wednesday is also Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. So what's everyone giving up? This year I'm giving up shopping...yup shoppping. No, I can still buy food and toiletries and gifts and presents for people, but I can't buy anything for myself...unless I NEED it. So I'm gonna go crazy today at the mall and buy stuff I want...gotta remember that Spring is coming up so I should start buying stuff for that. Oh yeah...and I'm giving up soda too...but there's a catch. I can drink soda as long as there's alcohol in it (i.e. jack and coke). I just want to give up soda because I drink too much of it throughout the day. Too bad I have 3 2 Liter bottles sitting in my fridge, huh?

At least the Olympics are over. Now it's regular programming! HOORAY! Hooray for new episodes of Scrubs, The Office, My Name is Earl, and LOST. YIPPIE!!!

Ok, that's it for now. Hope you all have a great week. Such is the life of Joe...

Body Shots
I can't believe I'm gonna admit this but I watched that stupid show with that former O-Town guy Ashley Parker Angel last night. Yeah yeah yeah...shut up, you can stop laughing now. But dude, that guy is a little pussy. Some guy was getting in his face and the dude slapped Ashley's face...so of course Ashley gets all pissed off and goes after the dude and throws a punch...at his stomach?!?!?! What the hell kind of punch is that? Ok, I've NEVER been in a fight...but if I did, I don't think i would be throwing body shots...I'd go straight to his face.

THEN he gets thrown out after throwing the punch and the dude is outside just taunting him again and just calling his girlfriend/fiance a bitch...but what does Ashley do? He just listens to him and just stands his ground while his FIANCE goes out and confronts the guy. OH MAN! Dude, if you aren't gonna stand up for yourself you gotta at least make an effort and confront the dude when he starts calling your girlfriend names, especially when the girlfriend gets all in the dudes face about it. Man, that guy...such a pussy.

Worked out for the first time in like 2+ weeks yesterday. My legs are soooo freaking sore from paintballing that I knew I wasn't going to do any cardio at all (not that I would have if they weren't sore) but yeah, do not think you can lift what you can lift 2 weeks prior. My shoulders are so sore right now. But gotta keep up the gym routine...summer will soon be here.

Ok, that's it...just wanted to go off on that guy. Such is the life of Joe...

Bonzai!!!
What a tiring weekend...and here I am on President's Day in the lab working while most of you all who are reading this (probably on Tuesday) are off today and enjoying it relaxing, shoppping, or just hanging out.

Saturday was my cousin's wedding. It was really nice just to see the family of course and to see my cousin Jun so happy and actually nervous for a change. It was a really small wedding and I actually had to walk in the wedding carrying the veil since James and Ana were running late, luckily they came in time to actually pin on the veil and take the glory away from me!!! WHYYYYYYYYYY!!! Ha ha ha, j/k.

The reception was really fun too, no dancing, no real alcohol, just dinner at a Chinese restaurant (which was right across the street from Suzuran that Karaoke place). It took a while for food to get served, and my Dad actually took off to go get something to eat himself. Yeah, he's kinda weird like that. I know he LOVES the family but maybe because it's Mom's side of the family that maybe he doesn't really like spending that much time with them? Either that or it's just the fact that he really likes to do things his way and he had it set in his mind that he wanted to go to Mami King and so he did. Yeah, Dad's pretty fickle like that...if he has something better to do or go to, he won't hesistate to go.

I then headed down to SD later that night since I was going paintballing early on Saturday. Thanks Tommy for letting me borrow some knee pads and the mask. Thanks Shawn and Rita for letting me sleep over. Yeah, good to see Shawn and Rita since I haven't seen them in a long time. Got to sleep in my own room with it's own bathroom and a nice full size bed. Ahhhhhhh....yeah, definitely getting my queen sometime this year.

Sunday i woke up with only maybe 2 hours of sleep and headed out to Kay and eventually to the Weekend Warriors paintball field in Alpine (near Viejas). We got lucky because it stopped raining just as we got there. Paintballing there was really fun, our guide was really nice, and the manager there was really nice too. Ohhhhh man, you don't know how sore I am though. Not so much because of the paintballs, but because of all the freaking running. That's my cardio exercise for this week, thank you. My legs are just sore from all the running and crouching. And I have 3 marks on me to show that I went paintballing. One dead in the center of my forhead, one on my neck and one on my left shoulder. Actually, you can barely feel them at all. They aren't anything compared to the welts that Pat got or the HUGE bruises on Leia's legs. Man, it's a good thing I don't bruise easily. good times though...I hope you had a great time Pat, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

After paintball got to chill at Kay's place with lots of food, watching the NBA all-star game, lots of friends, playing Donkey Konga, and just chilling and talking. Thanks for everything, Kay and Pat. Oh yeah....and thank you for letting me in the know and acting it out. Ha ha ha...good times.

Well, thank you to all my friends for such a great weekend. it was hella tiring (i'm so struggling right now at work) but so much fun. Ok, now it's back to work for me. Such is the life of Joe...

YEAH!
You know what commercial I HATE!!!! I cannot stand the Del Taco commercial with the bodybuilders on it. It disgusts me to think that those big weightlifters are touching my food. BLECH! Worst commercial ever. Especially when they're lifting up the taco's and one of them shouts "YEAH!" every time he lifts one up. OMG! I hate it! I can't go to Del Taco anymore. YUCK!

So Winter Olymics....yay? Watched the Opening Ceremonies and they were booo. Didn't like the lighting of the torch at all. All the people I talked to about it say the same thing, it was blah because it was too much pyrotechnics. You gotta light it not with freaking fireworks, but with the actual flame. So which flame lighting ceremoney was your favorite? Was it the archer lighting the flame with an arrow? Or was it Muhamad Ali lighting it? See, the thing with the archery one, is that the arrow didn't really light the flame, right? He didn't shoot it into the cauldron to light the torch...the arrow flew over the torch and then the flame lit. So I think that they timed it to push a button to light the flame as the arrow passed over the flame...either that or the torch was leaking massive gas so that when the lit arrow flew past it, it would light. Yeah, but winter olympics...not so much.

Let me just say that I LOVE Southern California. I LOVE IT! Where else can you go and swim, or go to a park, or drive a convertible, or ride your bike, or go to the beach in the middle of February? YOU HAVE TO LOVE IT! I mean, back East they're having record snowfall and whiteout conditions there with 2 feet of snow in one day...while here it's in the 80's and bright and sunny. I so wanted to go out to the beach today. Soooooo awesome.

I really wanted to go out this weekend and do something. Yeah, too bad that no one else was up to doing anything. I was thinking about going to LA to kick it but I got lazy. I'm glad that I just chilled in Irvine instead of heading out to LA. What looked like it was gonna be a boring weekend actually was pretty chill, but it was a great one nonetheless. Next weekend is gonna be crazy. I just learned something going on with the family that TOTALLY surprised me. WOW! We'll see how that goes and everything. Craziness! Hopefully it won't be so drama. I can't wait until this weekend already though....thinking about tomorrow is just pissing me off right now. I know tomorrow is gonna be freaking busy as a bitch. Supposed to be hot tomorrow...maybe I'll cut out early and check out the each for a while since I didn't get to go today.

OMG. I just got back from mass and I swear the priest at the 5 o'clock mass just went on and on in his homily. It wasn't so bad, but his voice is SO FREAKING SOOTHING! I swear I wanted to curl up and just go to sleep. But there was this one teenager up there who did the announcements and prayers (you know, the things we respond with "Lord hear our prayer"). I wanted to hit him so badly. And I know that's really bad especially when you're in church. But honestly, while he was sitting up there he was turning around and looking into the crowd and freaking mouthing and joking with some friends that were sitting in the pews. While he was reading the prayers and announcing names of the sick and deceased we were praying for he did it so nonchalantly and quickly and didn't care if he was pronouncing them correctly. At the end of mass he even almost started to laugh out loud while he was reading the announcements so he just read them as fast as he could, then you see him sit down with this big ass grin on his face. Total disrespect!!! OH MY GOSH! You don't understand how pissed off I was. Yeah, sucks that I was thinking this in church...but he was that freaking annoying.

Ok, Grey's Anatomy. SO FREAKING GOOD!!!! So freaking drama and you know how much I like drama. Did you watch? Did you watch? At first I thought that Dr. Grey and the bomb squad guy was gonna date afterwards, but I guess not, huh? Guess that's not gonna happen at all. The whole episode though, I was wondering why none of them were wearing helmets. Yeah...but hands down THE BEST Grey's Anatomy episode ever.

Well, start of a new week. I can't say I'm happy about that. But whatever. Hope you all have a great week. Such is the life of Joe...

Can I put it anywhere?
HA HA HA! That's what a waiter said as they were putting down some food. Why is it funny? If you have to ask then you don't have a dirty mind. If you don't get it then something must be wrong with you, but hopefully you got it.

Thank you to all my friends that have just hoped that I was doing better from this weekend and all the well wishes. Wow, I just have an off weekend and everyone starts to worry. It shows how great my friends are.

This week started out great. It really surprised me, literally, how great this week started. But then everything started to pile up, work and other stuff too. I hate when my all this work piles up at the end of the week. The lab manager comes in on Thursdays and then tells me I have to do this and this and this and this while I still have freaking 10 other things to try to finish by the end of the day. BLAH! PISSED ME OFF! I swear I wanted to just leave and just go home. PLUS he still hasn't given me my freaking review. I'm so over this job. Whatever. I'm so glad that it's Friday. What's going on? I kinda wanna do something this weekend and I have nothing planned...let me know!!!

See, the thing with my job is that it doesn't involve my mind no matter how busy I am. So I'm always thinking of random things, thinking of things that make me happy, but inevitably I think about things that are bothering me. I think it's the fact that I'm a pessimist that my mind can't stay on happy thoughts.

Being a pessimist can have its advantages when something actually turns out in your favor. I mean, as a pessimist I always set myself up for the fall but every once in a while I'll get surprised when something that I've been hoping for actually happens! But of course it can't be that easy... Yeah, I assumed that someone was pissed off at me, but in reality they weren't. They were just stressed out from school and hasn't been answering my calls b/c of school.

Why is it that the right thing to do is sometimes the hardest? You'd think that being there for a friend would be the right thing to do...but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes the right thing to do is to not be there for them. Yes, you'll feel terrible and it'll be one of the hardest things to do especially when they need you, but sometimes by leaving them to themselves, it'll help them discover the right answer for themselves without you clouding their judgement by showing them what you think the answer might be. It's when you accept that you're doing the right thing when you start to feel a little better. Sure you it'll still be hard, but at least you know the final outcome will be what was meant to be.

OH yeah, I almost forgot. I'M GOING TO JAPAN YOU BITCHES!!!! HOORAY!!!

So yeah, what's going on this weekend? Saints and Sinners? Mai Tai? Ice Skating? Let me know...I'm down for whatever. I'm so glad it's the weekend. All I have to say is that this week has been crazy. Such is the life of Joe...

I need you at a 15
I so wanted Drunk Joe to come out this weekend. Drunk Joe, you know, the guy that talks out of his ass and says stuff that offends people but are true to his heart? Yeah, I soooooooooooo wanted him to come out on Saturday night. But it didn't happen....well, maybe not until the way home when I went off and also at home when I went off with the rest of the roommates. Ohhhhhhhh man, it felt so good to release that freaking frustration.

Saturday started off meeting COF/LA Peeps at Pasta Pomodoro at Newport for Anna and Fantone's birthday celebations. Good times chilling with everyone and eating some great food. But like Riann said, I was at a 4, usually I'm at a 15 when I'm around them. I dunno...something was bothering me and it was quite noticeable to everyone because I wasn't my usual happy-go-lucky self. Don't get me wrong though. I LOVED seeing everyone there. AND I loved to learn that all I have to do is ask and someone will strip...YES!!! ZING!!!

After dinner we headed to Laguna Beach to chill for a little bit. And i mean, LITTERALLY CHILL!!! It was like 50 degrees outside!!! We smartened up and headed to D&B's where we hung out for a while. Yeah, thank you to that person who actually asked if everything was alright with me because they didn't think I was acting like my normal self. It's good to see that you aren't a dick all the time...but then again, acting as a dick toward me only means you care. Thank you. Yeah, I was in a funk and I just wanted some alcohol to get me out of it...and I really wanted Drunk Joe to come out at Beachfront in Huntington for Ro's birthday celebration.

Beachfront was cool and I got a couple drinks to start me on my way. Freaking Jevon is the master of all pranks. I bow down to him. But you know you had your fun too. Yeah, my lil sis was there too which was cool. Ok, so I wanted Drunk Joe to come out in full force. I was even talking to Danielle and Cat about it earlier this week, that our drunk selves would come out and play. What held me back? First of all...DO NOT bring a friend to the bar and then pawn them off on the only other person that they know. I SWEAR all I wanted was to get drunk the whole night and I was watching friends take shot after shot and after shot!!!! OMG!!!!! What about me?!?!?! HELP ME!!! I swear, I let loose once I was free. A shot and downed 2 jack and cokes in like 5 minutes and I was feeling alright. But not enough for freaking Drunk Joe to come out.

Sorry if this offends anyone but buzzed joe is speaking his mind right now (yeah, notice there are no spelling errors). I apologize to all of COF/LA Peeps for not being 100% today...I dunno, I was in a funk. Sorry, I promise next time you'll have me at 110% and you'll hate it and with for the other Joe to come out. Yeah, sorry I was pweh pweh. Sorry to anyone I offend. I liked talking to you but the goal of the night was to get drunk off my ass because I was in such a funk...yeah, mission not accomplished..but close because thanks to my roommates I got to vent out some of my frustrations in the open and in a guised form.

Superbowl is tomorrow....I can't wait. STEELERS BABY!!! STEELERS AND UNDER 47 POINTS!!! LET'S DO THIS!!! Such is the life of Joe...