Well, its the start of a new week and I must say, for once a weekend didn't totally stink. Elena came over around midnight on Saturday night so we could wake up way too early to go get breakfast at Maureen's Kitchen at like 7 AM, when they open. And I must say, breakfast was damn good. Although for some reason, just like the last time I ate Maureen's as my only meal of the day (I'm on a kind of weird diet involving drinking two shakes instead of having two real meals, lost 33 pounds in two months, go me!), I got a bad case of the craps Sunday night.

Anyway, breakfast Sunday morning, then Elena and I watched Sorority Boys on DVD before heading back to her house to lay out in the sun, unfortunately there was no sun, it kept getting cloudy and her house was a madhouse filled with people doing all kinds of stuff (One guy working on the AC, her grandfather and sister's fiance putting together a grill) and her ex boyfriend was there for some reason, so we just went back to my house, where there was sun, and, no one around so there was peace and quiet. So we laid out in the sun for an hour, took a dip in the pool and ate some sugar free and low fat ice cream, which was damn good! We watched an episode of Band of Brothers and then Sex and the City on HBO. All good in my opinion. Then she had to go to her cousin's apartment to work on a collage of photos for her cousin's wedding in three weeks.

So what are the plans for today. I have no idea. No clue if I'm working or not, so in the meantime I'm going to hop on the exercise bike for a half hour or so because I haven't execised in a too long and when I did it really helped my weight loss move along, because I feel like its been stalled lately. Then, its more sutdying for my next Microsoft test because I really want to pass this one. If I do, I got the MCSA and can move onto my final 3 tests to get my MCSE, which should guarantee me a nice job when the summer is over (if I can get it by the end of the summer, which I should).

There you go, the weekend and today in a nutshell. Of course, if I have to work all those plans are shot to hell, but thats ok, because money is a good thing. $$$ cha ching with the bling bling!

Current music - Puddle of Mudd "Blurry"

How juvenile am I? Very, obviously. At the moment I'm just trying to stay awake while waiting for Elena to get off from work and head over here where she'll be spending the night, which is always fun. We've never had a sleepover in my house, just at her house once and in Lake George for a few. The whole reason she's staying is so we can go out to breakfast with my parents in the morning, early in the morning, since the place we want to go to can get kind of packed in the mornings, especially on the weekends. They got good food, obviously.

Other than that had a pretty boring day. The new floor is in the den and the room looks kinda weird, but I think it just takes some getting used to. The dog's barks sound a lot louder in there, which is always good. My older brother Randy and I were moving furniture back into the den from their temporary storage place in the dining room and we go to move the love seat and Keyser decides to jump on it, so I figure what the hell, we'll give him a ride. He then proceeds, out of fear or what I don't know, to run over to my end of the couch and lick my face incessently. I almost dropped the couch, and that would have been bad. So we kicked him off the couch and my dad held him. For some reason, my dad thought it would be funny to throw the dog back up there just as we were carefully negotiating it between the narrow portion in the hall. Gotta love the thinking there.

So its been and continues to be major home improvement time at my house. The kitchen was done two summers ago, the bathrooms since November, now the floors, then new carpets and paint and probably molding. Then who knows what else. Anyway, the point of the story is that a few weeks ago when the working guys were finishing up in my parents bathroom I slipped on a drop cloth coming down the stairs, slid big time and ripped a hole in a pair of cargo pants I had. The hole was in the bottom part of the pants, and my mom is friendly with a person at a local dry cleaners / tailor, so I asked her to turn them into shorts for me. Well, my mom finally got them done, except now they look more like capri pants on me now. I honestly look like Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn getting ready to white wash a fence or take a raft down river with my slave friend. Gotta get them fixed so they're shorts and not clam digger pants.

Trying to think if there's anything else worth babbling about as I wait for Elena to get here. Watching SNL at the moment and I think Tracy Morgan is a comedy genius. "I'm Brian Fellow!" Ha ha ha. Anyway, Brittany Murphy is the host and she used to look good, but now she's too skinny and looks nasty. I don't like the waif thin, arms look like a skeleton and whatnot, like Lara Flynn Boyle. I like a girl with a little meat on their bones, like a Kate Winslet type or someone similar. Thats just me.

Alright, I think I'm done, if something else completely retarded and useless comes to mind I'll post it here. Gotta love the fact that I'm putting my web space to good use. Definitely worth the 50 bucks a year, but then again, I've wasted 50 bucks or more on worse. Try 200+ for a Tiffany's necklace for my ex girlfriend, only to have her break up with me and move back home two weeks later. But, I did get a GameCube out of the deal for Christmas from her mom.

OK, end of babbling. Adios.

Although its the weekend, I least look forward to Saturday's. I feel they are the most boring day of the weekend lately. Its probably because Elena usually works Saturday nights, and therefore I'm stuck at home with my dog, so that explains it perfectly.

My house continues to be a frigging mess though. If its not one thing, its another, thats for sure. My parents bathroom is finally finished, after something like two months of working on it. So now, the next thing to be done is the floor in the den. Bye bye carpet, hello wood. So of course, the den had to be emptied yesterday, and guess who had to do it? Me and my pain in the ass little brother, Mark. All he did was complain the whole time and nearly dropped the Sony Wega big screen TV. Damn it was heavy though. They're here now ripping up the carpet, and hopefulyl everything will be back to normal soon.

Other than that, nothing else is going on. I've decided my ex can go screw herself because I'm not going to answer her. She'll probably call again, but F-her, I don't care. I have rules in place in my e-mail to delte anything from her automatically and if I see a number from a weird area code show up on my cell, I just won't answer it. End of story.

I'm going for yet another Microsoft test of Thursday so I really need to study at some point today and Sunday. If I pass then I am officially a MCSA, a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator. Go me.

Thats all for now, need to shower and run out to Circuit City and Best Buy. Adios.

Current music - Our Lady Peace "Innocent"

It really is all her fault, the downfall of men and all that fun stuff. Seriously, it says so in the Bible, so it must be true. Honestly though, I wrote a paper in college about that whole Eve thing and how it applied to detective Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep." All the female characters in the novel mess with him somehow, and make it very difficult for the man to get anything done.

So why am I ranting so anti-women? Problems with Elena? Thankfully, no. Then that just leaves one other option, my bitch of an ex-girlfriend. She called me and left me a voice mail message last night because she's having problems with a laptop I was stupid enough to let her have when she left. The thing won't turn on and she doesn't know what to do.

I should've never given it to her, for two reasons. One, its been a never ending pain in the ass the fact that she gets in touch with me over every little thing that goes wrong with it. I'm not you're tech support line, OK? I get paid for doing that, and she can't even have the courtesy to send back my house key. I should help her? No. Two, its a nice laptop, somewhat. A IBM ThinkPad with a Pentium 3, 700 mhz, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD. Pretty nice.

I was debating e-mailing her back and just telling her the obvious thing. Call IBM. Even though thats what I told her last time the thing was giving her fits, when I also told her not to contact me anymore. If IBM can't help her, she's out of luck. I should just tell her to send the thing back to me, I'll take care of it and ensure that she never has a problem with it again, because she'll never see it again. I want my house key too, but I'm not holding my breath.

What I don't get is why she called me? I mean, I know why. To mess with me. It's almost like she realized the whole month of June was about to go by and she had to call me and annoy me because she can't let an entire month slip without some kind of contact with me. Then I'm sure she'll ask how the dog is doing and all that nice stuff. Pain in the ass if you ask me.

I would've thought she got the point that I didn't want to talk to her when I called her deluded and said she needed to take more psychiatric medication, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well. I'll figure it out. I just want the laptop back.

Current music - Weezer "The Good Life"

Oh little baby! Oh come on, you know the lyrics to that one. Dave Matthews Band anyone? Forget it.

Anyway, been busy the past week or so and haven't had the time to write it all down, so here goes.

Saw the Hulk over the weekend and I must say I was impressed. It was pretty damn good. Better than I thought it was going to be. Thankfully Ang Lee directed it, so it had an artful feel to it, while still remaining a kick ass action flick. The CGI Hulk was done pretty damn well too. Very believable looking, although you could still tell that it was CGI, obviously. But, honestly, when he's on the screen destroying everything the army throws at him or those hulk dogs, who cares? You don't care what he looks like, just what he's going to do next. Pretty impressive and I'm anxiously awaiting the sequel.

Passed my Microsoft test the other day and I'm already signed up for next one. If I pass this one, I get my MCSA, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, then its only three more tests until I get my MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Thats the big bucks certification, or so I've heard. We'll see with this job market, honestly, it sucks.

The test was a pain in the ass like they all are. I definitely thought I was going to fail about halfway in, because like always, the questions are so damn confusing and its impossible to figure out the "best" answer sometimes. Oh well, who cares. I passed, who cares by how much, thats all that counts.

Today is Thursday, so no Elena today =( I'll just have to entertain myself. Things are going really well between us, great in fact. We went into the city on Tuesday night to see The Producers, which was funny as hell. I still prefer the movie, because honestly, I'm not that into musicals, but it was really really good. Very very funny, I must say. Elena loved it too, and she's the expert, after all, singing and acting on Broadway is what she wants to do with her life.

Anyway, we went out to get some really amazing Mexican food before the show and proceeded to drink a little too much margarita's (we split a pitched and a half of frozen strawberry margarita's), and got a free shot each of tequila from a waiter she's friendly with there. So in our buzzed and drunken states, Elena said some very sweet things to me about our relationship. They're a little private, so I won't repeat them here, but I was touched, enough said.

Other than that, nothing new to report. I have Micosoft shit on the brain and really want one of Apple's new PowerMac G5's, hows that for being a schizo? I find it interesting.

So thats all, enjoy.

Current music - Dave Matthews Band "Jimi Thing" (Live)

I know I'm a nerd. I spent half of Saturday, practically all of Sunday and most of this morning reading the new Harry Potter book. Finished it too, all 870 pages of it. It was pretty damn good I must say. Very entertaining. J.K. Rowling is pretty darned good at creating characters and storylines that you care about and that just suck you in until you just can't live unless you can find out what happens next. A definite page turner. I'm sure a lot of parents out there were thankful for a quiet weekend in which their children spent all their time reading. Especially this past weekend because all it did was pour. And of course, on Monday, today, the weather is beautiful. What gives? I have no idea.

So I have my test in like 3 hours. I'm sure I'll do fine. I haven't failed one yet (knock on wood), so I don't think I'm going to start now. And, once I pass this one its just one more and then I'm an MCSA. Woo hoo! Then, just three more after than for my MCSE, which, with my experience and knowledge, should be a ticket to a nice, and hopefully high paying job with benefits and health insurance (thats all my mom cares about).

So, I'm going to spend the rest of my morning studying my practice test software, even though I've memorized the answers to all the question on it and can answer a question just by looking at the answers. Don't even need to read the questions. Pretty pathetic huh?

After the test its off to Elena's house where I'm sure we'll hang out, watch a movie, eat some dinner and who knows. I have less than two month left with her, so I'm going to make them count.

Anyway, enough for now, must go shower and study some more. Need to pass this damn test. Wish me luck!

Current music - Sum 41 "Fat Lip"

I donated blood. It didn't take too long and didn't really hurt. I've done it a few times before, half through scheduled blood drives, half just spur of the moment. The client I was at this morning went relatively quickly and the building they were located in were having a blood drive, so I figured what the hell, why not? I got a lot of blood, I could spare some. Plus, I'm really curious what my blood type is. I used to have a donor card, but of course I lost it years ago.

Other than that, nothing is new. Elena's been working double shifts for the past two days, so thats two days of not seeing her, which suck. But I'll be OK, because we're going to see The Hulk at some point tomorrow. We were probably going to an afternoon show, but I have to work a little tomorrow, and not sure when or for how long, so I guess it'll turn into a dinner and a movie date, which are always nice, since we haven't done that in a long while.

In my downtime from Elena and work I've been studying for my next Microsoft certification test. I'm taking it on Monday and if I pass I'll only have one more to pass before I earn my MCSA and three to go for my MCSE. With those in hand I should be able to get a full time job with benefits. One would think / hope. But I'm in no rush, and it'll probably take me until the end of the summer to get it all done, and thats if I push myself, which I don't do too well.

I usually take a test every two months, but I've slacked off since I started back in January. It probably had something to do with Elena. I took my last test a few days before I started to talk to her and just haven't been able to get back into the study mode until I hopped a train into the city last week. So I ripped through my study book, now I'm taking practice tests to prepare myself. I usually don't pass them on the first try, but then I go back, review my wrong answers, figure out why I got them wrong, retake it and score pretty high, almost perfect.

Each practice test program has three different exams I can take, and I always hope that I'll pass the third and final one on the first try, but it never happens. Oh well, I've never failed a real test yet, knock on wood. Although I was sure I was going to fail the last one, I somehow passed. A miracle if you ask me.

Anyway, enough rambling about boring computer stuff. Have Mac work to do in the morning. Just setting up some POP3 e-mail accounts that I hope can handle sending out messages to 100+ recipients. If it doesn't, oh well, time to look for another e-mail and web hosting company for the client. They do have a 30 day money back guarantee. We'll see.

Adios, time to watch some Buffy Season 4 DVD's before Elena calls when she gets off work. Thank you, good night!

Current music - Third Eye Blind "Blinded"

And I wish I was in bed snoring. I never feel like I get enough sleep. I hung out with Elena last night and she left to go home around 11:30, but of course I had to mess around with something computer related so I didn't get to sleep until like 1 AM. Then the dog woke up and vomitted on my carpet at like 5:30, but then we went back to sleep and didn't get up until 6:30, when it was pouring like a madman. Thankfully I don't have far to go to work today, just down the road to my mom's office.

Need to go take a shower and get ready, but the couch is comfortable and its asking me to lay down on it. I know I must refuse, but its getting harder and harder. I'm afraid to go in my room because I know my bed is going to call to me, saying "Lay down on me! I'm comfortable and you want me!" Alright, I'll go clean up and what not. Later.

Current music - Pearl Jam "Know Your Rights" (Live, 4/30/03, Uniondale)

There. I said it. You know you think the same thing everyday you sit in your car on your way to work. And don't give me any excuse if you take mass transit, because that train, bus or subway is either a little late, or just not fast enough. Commuting sucks. I want a job five minutes down the road from my house. I had an interview at a place that honestly would've taken me ten minutes to get to, with all the waiting at lights and whatnot. Didn't get it though. Although I'm sure after awhile I would've complained that the commute didn't take 5 minutes instead of 10. You can never win.

But traffic sucks ass on Long Island. Its everywhere, and its unavoidable like the plague. I sat in it this morning for way to long, avoided it mid-morning, got slammed on Queens Blvd (lovely road, I highly recommend sitting there for way too long, fighting the retards that don't know how to drive, and moving two miles an hour), and again on the Grand Central / Northern State at 3 PM. Now, I expected the morning to be bad, although not as bad as it was, and I was OK with Queens Blvd, although I wanted to kill someone. There was no reason for the Northern State to be a mess at 3 in the afternoon, unless a lot of people are cutting out of work early on a random Tuesday for some reason. I guess I should stop bitching and just get used to it. Its not getting any better.

In the meantime, when I wasn't sitting in my car I worked my ass off today. Only billed like 5 hours, but 3 of those were for Mac work, which nets me a little more. I wasn't able to totally help the Mac client, but we're getting there, and I think I'm helping them get to a level of technology they want to be at, with a website and whatnot. We'll see if I can pull it off. I have mine up and running, I can do their's, just not design it. I'm still a retard when it comes to that.

Just sitting around my house, on the couch, with my dog, waiting for Elena to come over. We're going to finish watching Scarlet Diva, a sex filled movie with Asia Argento of XXX fame. Sex in movies either makes you really want to have sex, or its repulsive and makes you so not in the mood. I like the first kind, but thats just me.

Listening to Pearl Jam once again, because they're the greatest band around today. Can't wait to see them again. Its in like less than a month, July 9th to be exact. Should be a kick ass show. Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden. Its got to rock.

Current music - Pearl Jam "I Am Mine" (Live, 4/30/03, Uniondale, NY)

So far today, at least to the best of my knowledge, I have two stops to make. One in southern Nassau, the other in Queens, the land of flat tires. Between the two I should bill out a couple of hours worth of work, which will put some decent amounts of cash in my pockets. Then tomorrow, again, as far as I know we'll be installing new computers at my mom's office, which should take a couple of hours, providing me with even more funds.

Spent most of the day yesterday with Elena, shopping and tooling around town. I don't like to shop, but I like to spend time with her, so it all works out in the end. She'll be coming over tonight for dinner, even though my Mom sounds sick and we'll probably just get Chinese or something.

I ranted a couple months back about my bitch of an ex charging a shit load of Christmas presents for her family on my Macy's card. I've been slowly but surely paying it off since Christmas and the Macy's bill came last night. I didn't get home till after 11, but when I got home it was on the kitchen table, open. I don't like people opening my mail, especially credit card bills, because the balances are usually frightful (thankfully I now pay online and get my statement via e-mail). I guess my dad thought it was my mom's Macy's bill. I wasn't that pissed because I only have like $160 left to pay for presents that I didn't give, but my mom, in a bout of generousness offered to pay the rest of the balance. Cool. Thats $40 more a month I can keep in my pocket.

Anyway, off to work. Hi ho... hi ho... it's off to work I go....

Current music - 311 "Do You Right"

That's pretty much what I say to the dog every morning when he wakes me up, and its the truth. This morning he first woke me up at a little bit before 5 AM, although of course when I first woke up it looked like 4:15 AM on my clock, not the 4:50 it actually was. Regardless, it was way too early. So I took him out to pee and we went back to bed. Of course that didn't last, because we were up again, this time for good around 5:50 AM. Damn dog.

But, then again, all I did after that was feed him and then pass out on the couch until 8:00 AM, so I guess it all works out. There's always the option for a nap later, so we'll see. Naps are nice, so very very nice. Other than maybe sleep, I really have no plan for the day. Unless of course my boss calls and I have to work, but we'll see about that too. Of course, if I'm not, then its probably another day of hanging out with Elena, and there's nothing wrong with that. Thats my favorite activity! =)

Current music - Sum 41 "Still Waiting"

So I actually got this Movable Type thing up and running. It only took an afternoon, off and on. And once I had it up and running I had to go screw it up by deleting my user account, so I had to start from scratch again. But I knew what I was doing the second time, so it wasn't so bad.

Now I just have to get my ass in gear about making a decent website and designing a decent template for this thing. I'm sure I'll figure all this stuff out. I'm good like that. Nothing like the good old trial and error.

Had a decent Father's Day, although spent much of it at a computer. Just got back from Elena's. We had dessert and then watched two Netflix movies she got, Following, by the genius that brought you Memento, and Storytelling, from the messed up mind that brought you Happiness. They were both good. Different, but good. I borrowed Following because I want to listen to the commentary.

Alright, so I'm going to bed as I watch my newly bought, from Best Buy of course, Buffy Season 4 on DVD. Good night!

Alright, so I bit the bullet this morning and ordered one year of web hosting for $49.99. Considering I found two twenties in an ATM machine in Penn Station last night, it kind of paid for itself. So, once I figure out the instructions, I will be moving my blog over to Movable Type and to my domain name of matthewoster.com. I hope there is some way to transfer all my entries from here over to the new one. I hope so, its kind of interesting to look back on some of them and see where my minds been at over the past couple of months. I figure if I can't figure out how to install, I can pay movable type 40 bucks and they can do it for me, and maybe they know how to transfer entries from blogger into their system.

So I was the most unlucky bastard in the world on Wednesday. To start off with, my car got a flat tire while I was following my boss to a client in Queens. The tire was totally shredded, and after throwing the donut on and getting to the client I set out to get it fixed. I had to buy a used tire for 30 bucks, and I was on my merry way. Then I headed into the city, partied and had a good time with Elena and a long lost friend from Binghamton. Then, as we were getting ready to head back to Queens to get my car from Seth's apartment, the subway we were going to take, didn't come for like 20 minutes. It was then that we realized that the line we waiting for didn't run on the weekends. Lucky us. So we decided to take a cab. The cab ride was pretty quick until about a mile form Seth's, the cab got a flat tire. What luck, huh? Twice in one day. Needless to say we had to walk the rest of the way, which wasn't bad, and then we could finally go home.

That was the end of the parking the car at Seth's. We went back to being slaved to the LIRR schedule last night when we went in to celebrate Elena's friend's birthday. At least that way we know when the trains are coming and going, instead of the subways which just seem to show up whenever they damn well please.

Other than that, nothing new to report. Look for big and uninteresting things at matthewoster.com. Once the DNS entries get sorted out there should be a simple page of text saying the site is under construction up. I'll learn Dreamweaver the hard way.

Thats all for now. I hate Saturday nights because Elena works. Sucks for me. Adios.

Current music - Flickerstick "Smile"

So the job interview thing didn't exactly work out the way I wanted it to. Got a message from the staffing company on Wednesday, but I was out all day working and then in the city at night. I called back first thing Thursday and they said they had bad news. Three strong candidates and they just had to make a decision on one. Oh well. In the end, I think its for the best right now. I plan on taking as much Microsoft crap as I can and then start looking for full time stuff once the summer is over (read, when Elena leaves for London).

I like the fact that I work part time and get to see her a lot. If I worked full time I'd barely see her, and I figure I don't need the money that badly. I mean, I need money, who doesn't, but I'll live on what I make, have since February. I really love the girl and want to spend as much time with her as I possible can before she goes off to London for a year or so.

Of course I'll go visit. She said she's probably not coming home for Christmas, because thats the only time her and her friend/roommate will have to travel and see Europe, so she said thats when I should come to visit. And Christmas is right around my birthday and Channukah, so there's my present for all, rolled into one. Can't beat that, and thats the expensive part. Once you're there its dirt cheap to live and travel. You can take a train to Prague for like 40 American dollars. Pretty sweet.

We'll see what happens. I like the fact that she wants me to come see her. I knew she would, but me, like the idiot I am have always had the fear in the back of my mind that she'd break up with me before she leaves. Guess not, at least so far.

Anyway, going into the city tonight with Elena for her friend's birthday. We were just in there Wednesday night and Monday too, for my interview. Went in Wednesday for a friend of mine from Binghamton's birthday. Went to see this thing called De La Guarda, which I can't even describe, except to say that it was insane and fucking cool at the same time.

Got some more stories to tell, just not in the mood to type. Catch you later.

Current music - Pearl Jam "I Got Shit"

Well, unfortunately its been a pretty boring weekend. Mostly because my girlfriend has been busy with other things. Last night she had her cousin's bachelorette party and she spent the night because it was all the way out east in who knows where. I just know it was like an hour from Elena's house, and that was with speeding. Tonight I will be without her again as she travels into the city to hang out with some of her theater friends that she did a show with in Virginia for a couple months last summer. They're going to watch the Tony Awards, which is their religion, as it was explained to me. I'm cool with all of that. I miss her and everything, but, absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?

Other than that I've had a pretty geeky weekend. I've spent most of it either sleeping or cruising the web looking for some new things to learn. Mostly, I want to start my own website. Now I realize I have this blog, but lets be honest, it doesn't have much of my doing in it. I have my own domain name, matthewoster.com, but its not exactly in use at the moment. I was digging around looking for some web hosting sites and found what looks to be a very good one, full of features, for like $50 a year, which ain't bad, not for what I'm going to use it for. I've been telling myself for months to get off my butt and learn to make a page and use Dreamweaver, but I just haven't. I figure I paid for the domain name, I should just get the web hosting and start doing something. No better way to make myself than to say its a waste of money if I don't. I got the tools, just need to learn, and what better way to learn than by doing. I figure I could start off by loading my blog on that using something better than Blogger, like Movable Type (see, I've done my research). We shall see.

In the meantime, I have my big job interview tomorrow, Monday. I hope it goes well, I have a feeling it will. I just have to prove that I'm a hard worker, willing to bust my ass and learn as much as I possibly can. I think I should really mention the whole website thing and all the Microsoft stuff I've been studying for. Thats an interesting split, web design on a Mac and Microsoft certifications. That was made abundantly clear to me the other day when I took a look at the two new magazines that came in the mail for me, Macworld and Microsoft Certified Professional magazine. Can't get more split than that. I think I have a good shot of landing it, after all, I think I have all that they're looking for. So we'll see. Wish me luck.

And with that, I'm out.

Current music - Pearl Jam "Bu$hleaguer" (Live, 4/30/03) Got a couple of boos from the crowd that night for this one.

Damn its been awhile since I wrote in this thing. So what's been happening with me? Not much really, things are going great and have an even better chance of getting much, much better.

First things first, had a great weekend away with Elena and my family. The weather wasn't the nicest and I was sick the first day/night we were up there, but other than that it was a fun time. Spent five days/four nights with Elena and we didn't get sick of each other once. Thats a good sign. In the meantime, spent some quality time with family that I don't get to see too often and my Grandma, who the whole trip was organized for, really appreciated that everyone got together. It was a good time. The resort we stayed at, the Sagamore, was nice as hell, very swank, if thats the right word for it. We had a nice dinner Saturday night that was a little too high class for me, jacket required, tie optional, 30 bucks for a plate of food with very little food on it. I don't get that. Wee had dinner at this Italian place the next night and for 13 bucks you got a whole plate of chicken parm and pasta. Good shit.

Second, had a pretty good week of doing really nothing. Although I did have a bad case of the craps on Tuesday, but its all good now. Today I'll be heading out with Elena to catch a double feature. Well, not a real double feature, we're just going to try to catch two movies today, Bruce Almighty & Finding Nemo. Should be good flicks all around. They've only made like over 200 million combined so far, or something, so it can't be all bad.

Third, have a job interview setup for Monday in the city. I'm actually going back to a place that I interviewed at back in November and I definitely thought I would've had it, but they went with someone with a little less experience that they could pay less, so now it looks like they're regretting that decision. They're now looking for someone a little more mature and expereienced to get things in order. They really liked me back in November and I think that I'm mature enough, so hopefully I'll get hooked up with a job that has a very good chance of becoming permanent.

I'm actually glad I didn't get the job back in November. If I had my bitch of an ex-girlfriend might still be around making my life miserable. I think the unemployment had a big effect on getting her to leave me, which I have no problem with. I'm so happy now its not even funny and I can't imagine what life would be like any other way. Elena is the most amazing girl I've ever met, and I'm so happy that she's in my life at the moment, even if she is going to London at the end of the summer. Its all good though, because I think we can make it work, even though we haven't really spoken about it yet, but I'm sure we will and it will all be OK.

So enough for now. Watching Old School on DVD. Funny as hell flick. Peace out.