So things are much better now, all around, which is always a good thing. I picked up my car yesterday and after driving it into work today everything seems to be OK and its running like it should. Thats a comforting thought because I wasn't too big on the idea of pumping more money into it or getting a new one, considering I owe more than I could get for a trade in and really wasn't in the mood to sell it on my own. Now that its running fine and thats squared away, thats one less thing for me to worry about.

I also went ahead and called Elena last night, after talking it over with Randy's friend Andrea, the Grace to his Will, she suggested just calling and testing the waters, and I'm glad I did. She was so out of it the other night that she barely remembered the conversation or that I even sounded upset. She said she's busy trying to get her paper done so that she doesn't have to work on it when I'm there in less than two weeks, so thats a good thing. And we had a nice long talk too, something I've been trying to have with her for a week, so I'm happy. She's going to give me a call on Saturday when she needs to take a break from her paper, so hopefully that'll be good too, and it really is less than two weeks before I take my final flight across the pond to London. Should be fun. I'm really looking forward to it.

Alright, thats enough for now. Must get back to work.

Things just don't seem to be going to right lately. But you know what? I'm really not going to let it bother me, because when I think about it I only get more pissed off, and thats never a good thing. Although I do listen to a lot of angry music when I'm pissed, especially Linkin Park for some reason. Hell, for half of February and all of March I don't think I listened to anything except Linkin Park (for when I was angry), Dashboard Confessional (for when I wanted to get depressed) and Jeff Buckley (for no real reason other than I just discovered his stuff and found it to be really good). So today has definitely been a Linkin Park day, and so will the drive home, in my mom's truck.

Yup, my car is still messed up. I picked it up this morning with a brand new set of spark plugs in it and didn't get two feet from the place before I knew I'd have to bring it back. Thankfully I was right around the corner from my mom's office, so I pulled in and told her to follow me right back to the mechanic where I dropped my car back off. I drove her to her office and took her truck into work.

I just heard back from the mechanic and Elena's dad, since he referred me to this place to begin with, and now they think they finally found the cause of the problem, the catalytic covnerter (whatever that does, I don't really know cars, just computers). Turns out the bad spark plugs were causing raw fuel to go into the exhaust system, which was causing that to get clogged which caused the catalytic converter to fail which I'm sure impacted the transmission somehow. I don't know, like I said, I don't know cars. I trust that Elena's dad wouldn't send me someplace that would screw me, so I'm sure the car needed the transmission anyway. So, the catalytic converter will run me $200, so tack that onto the $1650 I paid for the tranny, and the $130 for the spark plugs and we're talking almost $2000 of work I've had done in the past week. Oh joy! So much for paying off some of my credit cards some more. Oh well, what am I going to do? I need a car that runs, right?

So onto the next thing thats making me mad, and that would be Elena. Yup, thats right, my girlfriend that I love so much, has ticked me off royaly. I'll explain. I haven't really spoken to the girl for more than 3 minutes at a time in about a week, and I don't like that. So I called her last night when I got home from work. I knew she was working a shift at the restaurant she waits tables at, so I left a message saying that if she wasn't too tired when she got home to give me a call, because we haven't really talked in awhile and I just wanted to talk. Is that so much to ask?

In the meantime I ran out to the ATM to get money to pay for my car and to Best Buy for some DVD's and CD's. On the way I get a voice mail from Elena telling me to call her. When I call her she says that someone stole her wallet from work and then she said she had to go because she couldn't talk. Again, a 3 minute call. At that I got a little upset, so I asked her when can she talk for more than 3 minutes at a time, at which she pressed me on what I wanted to talk about specifically, I said nothing I just want to talk, about the usual crap that we spend time talking about. She said she didn't know, because she's really busy.

And thats what really ticked me off, because I've heard it so many times before and I like it less and less everytime I hear it. Too busy. Too busy to give me a half hour of your time to talk to your boyfriend who has bent over backwards ten times over to do things for you to make a long distance relationship work? See, she's busy because she's finally getting around to working on her paper that she needs to get her Master's. Its due in September before she leaves and she's only had, oh, the WHOLE SUMMER to work on it, but starts now. So she says between now and when I go to London to see her and help her move stuff home, that when she's not work at one of her two jobs that she'll be busy working on her paper. So, she procrastinates all summer, has a bad day and takes it out on me? Yeah, thats fair.

Now, I realize that I'm a nice guy, and probably too nice. I know I do too much for her, but I don't mind it, as long as I feel appreciated, and I hate it when I feel like my kindness and generosity is being taken advantage of, and this is one of those moments. Is talking to me really so much to ask? I think not. So I told her to call me when she can talk and hung up. I have absolutely no intention of calling her. Hell, when she calls me I'm not taking the call. Thats why they invented voice mail. She can stew for awhile without talking to me. Can you tell I'm pissed? I am.

So that's that. I'm thinking of starting a pool amongst friends and coworkers that I've told the story to in order to see how long it takes her to call me. Should be interesting. My bet would be on Monday or Tuesday. Any takers?

According to the mechanic at the transmission place thats why my "Service Engine Soon" came on. An engine misfire could lead to a loss of engine power, which would explain why when I hit the gas I feel like I'm going nowhere and I'm getting no acceleration. Hopefully its just a couple of bad spark plugs, which would only run $100 to replace, or not that bad, a tune up of some sort. If we get into really extensive engine damage, then I'm screwed.

Of course with my older brother driving me into work he has to chew my ear off about how my car is totally messed up, will never be the same and that I should just get rid of it now and get a new one. Yeah, OK. This coming from the kid that gets a new car on average of every 2 years, and who's looking to get out of his lease now to get a new car. The kid drives a really nice Audi A4 and he wants to get a new Pontiac GTO. I told him to get it in red, with a black leather interior. If he's going to do it, he should do it right. A new car would be a nice thing, but I'm not even done paying for mine yet, and a new one isn't cheap and I would like to get to a point in my life where I won't have to make car payments every month. And, being so tall, there are only so many cars I can fit comfortably in, and most of them aren't cheap.

We'll see what happens. Hopefully what needs to be fixed isn't so bad and won't cost much and my car will be as good as new. One can hope and pray. Other than that its been a somewhat hectic day at work. The summer intern's last day was on Friday, and he had basically been manning the Help Desk, taking all the support calls, since the Help Desk girl has been out on disability, and now maternity leave since early June. Who knows now that she's had her baby if and when she's coming back. Better be soon. Doing Help Desk stuff is going to get old, real fast. To top it off my boss took a personal day so 40% of our staff is out. Thankfully the afternoon has been slow and nothing major going wrong.

I need to get a ride after work to my dad's office, its only five minutes up the nearest parkway, or he's going to have to come pick me up, which means I'll be getting home even later, which sucks. I hate Long Island traffic. Hate it with a passion, and now that school is going to be back in session soon it means more cars on the road and more traffic, which sucks even more. Oh well, at least I have my last trip to London and Elena finally coming home to look forward to. Yay!

Alright, back to work and checking for problem voice mails. Damn the real world sucks sometimes! But the money and steady paycheck is nice. Although, at the rate I'm going, I may just actually get to keep some of my money without someone taking it first, someday. Its something to strive for.

Went all the way out to Long Beach last night to hang out with Seth and his girlfriend, Shari, at her place and I must say, it was worth the hour long drive as we had a lot of fun. When I got there Seth and Shari's roommate, Lauren (who, coincidentally, was, I think the first girl I ever kissed playing spin the bottle at Seth's house after his Bar Mitzvah over 12 years ago) were addicted to watching the Olympics, and I'm talking everything. They were watching volleyball, track, weight lifting, anything! So before I went the plan was to BBQ, but the torrential downpour the whole way there, that continued once I got there kind of put a damper on that. So Shari said that she'd cook chicken parm, which just so happens to be my all time favorite dish. But we were all starving and didn't want her to kill herself cooking, so we just got takeout from a pizza place close by and got some hero's and pizza.

Brett even stopped by on his way home from work, gun and all, and brought Mrs. Fields cookies, the bastard! But damn were they good. So we all hung out, ate pizza, cookies and drank some Corona's for awhile. Then, as the rain let up we walked the two blocks from Shari's place to the beach. With a town name like Long Beach I was expecting sand and the ocean somewhere. So we walked down to the beach, hit a volleyball around for awhile (its all the Olympics fault!) then climbed the small mound of sand that held the lifeguards chair and just hung out up there, chatting. Eventually we headed back to Shari's where Brett saw pictures of Seth and Shari's cruise to the Mediterranean, which looked awesome. I can't wait to go to Italy, someday. Elena says thats her honeymoon destination of choice at the moment and I"m down with that. Then Brett and I headed home. Fun night.

So today? No plans. The great CD rip continues. I'll probably play some more Halo as I think I'm almost done with the game, and probably watch a DVD or two. Typical Sunday relaxing and being lazy and doing nothing. Stuck to the diet yesterday so if I can stick to it today I'll be in good shape. Have to go get fitted for a tux soon, like the first week of September according to Brett. Alright, time to go back to being lazy...

Yeah, so after shelling out nearly two grand to get my car fixed, guess what? It's not fixed. Its acting up again, and I swear this time it feels worst. I gave the mechanic a call and he said to drop it off first thing on Monday morning and he'll take a look and hopefully get to the root of the problem and fix it. The guy can take his time as I want it done right so the damn thing doesn't break down on me or get me into an accident because its not shifting properly. The downside, I'm without a car for the weekend because there is no way in hell that I'm taking mine anywhere for the previously mentioned reasons.

That wouldn't be so bad except that I had preliminary plans to go to Long Beach to hang out with Seth and his girlfriend. I'm sure my mom, against all her best wishes, will let me borrow her car. She's not big on us taking her car, probably because its brand new, sort of, she got it in December, thats new enough. My dad said I could take it if need be, so I'm sure its all good. In the meantime, with no car I'm bored. Although its not like I had anywhere to go today, I'm just saying.

So what am I doing to kill the time? The Great CD Rip of 2004. I went through my CD collection to find CD's that I don't have on my laptop in iTunes and on my iPod, and I'm putting the good stuff in there. And let me tell you, going through the CD collection is no small feat, as most of my CD's are in boxes somewhere from when I moved to Louisiana and back again. I think I have a stack of about 40 or so on my desk that I'm trying to get through. Should be a good way to pass the time.

More importantly, it'll keep my in my room and at my desk and away from food. That's right, you guessed it, it happens every so often, but I'm back on the diet, big time. Or trying to. I figure if I spend so much money on the Herbalife every month I might as well let it work and not ruin it by snacking on crap and not staying on the program. Besides, Elena is coming home soon and I know she's going to want to get in shape as she believes the reason that she never got an agent or a role in London is that she's too fat, which is BS, but there was no convincing her otherwise. She needs some tough love, about that subject, and she'll get it alright! Also, with Brett's wedding fast approaching in November I would like to look my best, since those pictures of the wedding tend to last forever. So I was good yesterday and so far, today, its all good, although its not even 10 AM, so I shouldn't toot my horn just yet.

Alright, must get going on my exciting agenda today, a shower and more CD ripping. Hope everyone has a good weekend! Adios!

Not that the two have anything to do with each other at all. Its just that I got my car back from the mechanic last night, and I saw John Mayer last night. I guess I'll handle them one at a time.

John Mayer was pretty damn good. I must say, a good way to end my little summer concert series. Although I must admit, the best concert of the summer, of the 4 I've been to is still 311, because they rocked, and rocked hard. But John Mayer was good, he played a lot of the songs that I knew of his and damn is he one talented guitar player. Between that and the fact that he's my age, I'm really jealous and wish I could possess that talent. We left before the encore started because we were all exhausted and he jams for a bit too long, but I don't think I missed much, I saw all the songs I wanted to see before we left, and hey, we beat the traffic. Maroon 5 opened and they were pretty good too, although I found it kind of odd that they played the three songs of their that are singles all in a row right in the middle of their set. You'd think they'd close with one of their biggest songs, but no. They closed their set with a cover of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, which was cool.

So onto my car, I picked it up last night. My mom, who works two minutes from the mechanic went and paid for it and drove it to her office and my brother dropped me off after the show to drive it home and I must say it felt a little weird. Maybe its because its been broken for who knows how long. Maybe it'll never drive the same again. Who knows. I just hope the damn thing doesn't die on me. After dropping $1650 on it, it better now. We'll see, the ride home will be a good test.

Well, must get going. It's that glorious time of the day when I leave work. Need to swing by Elena's house on the way home and get Herbalife, a huge duffel bag and space bags for her to pack stuff in when I'm in London in only three, count em, three weeks. And its her mom's birthday, so I have to be the good boyfriend and wish my girlfriends mom a happy b-day and give her a car. Alright, I'm out.

My car started acting weird on me about two weeks ago. I was accelerating, trying to get into the left lane on a parkway I take to get home when the RPM's almost went into the red, but I didn't feel like I was going any faster, and then my service engine soon light came on for a few seconds and then went away. I thought little of it and continued driving the way I always do until yesterday when the same thing happened, twice.

So, scared that my car was going to die on me I called Elena's dad, since he's a mechanic and I've been bringing my car to him for most of this past year because he doesn't rape me on the cost of simple things like new brakes or oil changes. He referred me to a guy he knows in my town that does transmissions so I dropped my car off this morning and got a ride into work with my younger brother. I just got back from eating lunch in the cafeteria of my building (one of the downsides to having no car, because the food usually sucks down there) and the transmission guy called me right before I dug into eat to tell me that I need a new transmission as my is completely shot. Cost, $1650, and thats getting it at wholesale because I know Elena's dad. If it was retail it would've been $2300, so I guess I'm getting a deal. So much for that extra paycheck in September, it'll go to my paying my dad back for my car because I don't have $1650 in cash on me. This sucks to no end, but I know it has to be done as the guy said it'll just get worse as time goes on and probably leave me stranded somewhere, and just my luck it would probably be at the worse possible time. So now I'm out $1650 but I get a brand spanking new transmission!!! I can think of a whole lot of things I'd rather do with that money though.

I knew something like this was going to happen. My car is only a 2001, but I have something like 73,000 miles on it, form when I lived in Lousiana and had a practically 90 mile round trip commute everyday. Add that to a few trips back and forth from the south to NY and the 70 miles I drive five days a week to and from work and you get to 73,000 easily. I kind of had the feeling that once my car hit 70,000 that something would fall apart. I guess I'm glad that I at least caught it in time and that it isn't worse, like severe damage to my engine. I'm trying not to think of the dent in my wallet thats coming my way, so in the meantime I'm trying to think abotu my upcoming trip to London.

So far Elena's booked tickets for us to see her friend in Jekyll and Hyde, the musical and to see Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which is pretty cool. She also said yesterday that all the state rooms in Buckingham Palace are going to be open to the public, which they never are, because the Queen won't be there. I guess she's going on vacation, which dammit, I think she deserves as Queen of England seems like a really tough job and everyone deserves a vacation. Elena went last year when the opened it up and she said it was beautiful. They wouldn't let her take pictures, but I guess that's OK. One more interesting thing to look forward to.

Alright, must get back to work so I can earn money to pay for the damage to my car. All I can say is what a buzzkill.

Like the title says, my weekend was pretty interesting. Saturday was pretty boring as the highlight of my day was getting my hair cut, and that was pretty much over and done with by 10:00 AM. I just kind of relaxed around the house not doing much of anything for the rest of the day.

Sunday I had to go into work for a few hours. I was just about out the door when my mom asked me what time I was going to be home. I said I had no clue and why? She said she needed me to do her a favor. When I asked what she said go to a wedding ceremony with her. The daughter of friends of my parents got married yesterday and the ceremony was in the afternoon and the reception at night. My dad isn't big on going to churches, so he refused to go and my mom didn't want to go to the service by herself, why I have no idea, so she was trying to force me into going. As I left I said I would, but I really didn't want to. I barely know the girl. She's the same age as me and we went to high school together, even had some classes together and I somehow miraculously found myself at her house one night drinking with my friends, but only due to the people we were hanging out with were her friends too.

So, needless to say I felt kind of odd going to this girls wedding. It gets a little odder, but I don't feel like going into too many details, lets just say it has to do with playing some show and tell with her, her sister, and my brother when we were all about six. I'm not sure if she remembers anything like that, but I do, and don't ask me how, you just kind of remember your first look at the genetalia of the opposite sex.

I go into work, do what I have to do there and go home thinking on the way home that I don't really want to go to this wedding. I got home and asked my mom if I really had to go and she said yes, but then when my dad heard us talking about he and asked what was up he said I didn't have to go. Then my mom gave me a guilt trip about it. When it came down to it and she was walking out the door I was laying in my bed watching Secret Window on DVD (pretty good flick by the way, Johnny Depp plays crazy and eccentric perfectly.)

I spent the rest of Sunday playing Halo, which I must say, is one of the best video games I have ever played. If you're even remotely into first person shooters and have never played Halo, then there is something wrong with you. I enjoyed playing it so much on my Mac that I bought it for my brother's XBox too and we were having fun playing cooperatively through the game. It was especially fun on some of the driving boards where one player drives this jeep thing and the other stands on the back shooting with a machine gun. Fun stuff.

OK, so looking back, it wasn't all that interesting a weekend, so I'm a liar and I apologize. Back to work on a lovely and rainy Monday morning. Labor Day can't get here fast enough as I leave for London at the end of that shortened work week.

Well that was weird. Seems my web host was upgrading servers and moving accounts around which would explain why my site was offline for almost a day. It would have been nice if they told me about it before hand though. Every time I can't get to my site I think they've caught onto the fact that I never really paid for my year of hosting and that they've caught onto that fact, especially since my year was up two months ago and ever though I've sent countless e-mails trying to renew, they seem to now want my money, which is cool with me, as long as my site stays up.

So my main to-do thing this weekend is already done, so now I have nothing to do. I got my haircut. I know, thats insane, crazy and a bunch of other things. That was seriously all I needed to do this weekend. Sure, I have to work for a couple of hours tomorrow, but thats nothing, then I can come home and go back to doing nothing. A nice relaxing weekend full of a lot of sleep and DVD's is just what I need. At the moment I'm watching Kill Bill Vol. 2, which will mark the 4th time I've watched it after three in the theatre, although one doesn't count because I passed out.

Once the movie is over I think I'll move onto some Halo on the X-Box or my Mac. I've just discovered the joys of this wonderful game. Blowing the shit out of some aliens with an assault rifle is always a load of fun. Other than that, I have nothing big going on. Like I said, life is boring at the moment, but Elena will be home for good soon, so that'll keep me busy.

That's what I've been in the middle of all week long. We ordered 70 new PC's at work to replace a whole bunch of the old piece of crap ones we have lying around and that we're forcing people to use and actually be productive. And when I say old, I mean old, like 1998 old in some instances. So its been my job all week to get all these new PC's ready to go out, which isn't that hard or time consuming, only takes a half hour or so per PC and I do four at a time, its just boring. Thankfully the week is almost over and I don't have anything major planned for the weekend. I leave for London in 4 weeks exactly and that can't come here soon enough, let me tell you.

Other than that, nothing of exciting note going on. Sorry to waste your time, I apologize in advance. I'll have something important to write next time, I promise. You know I'm good for it.

Well, back to the tedious work.

I actually had a pretty good weekend. Its amazing how you can actually have fun if you get out of the house and do stuff instead of just sitting around and counting the days until you get to see your girlfriend in London one more time (only 1 month from today to be exact, in case you were wondering!) So I can't complain about the weekend's festivities, although now I'm really tired and really didn't want to get out of bed this morning and go to work, but alas, I must pay the bills, so off I went.

Let's see, Friday night I didn't really do much, just relaxed at home and got caught up on Nip/Tuck, so now when they air new episodes on Tuesday nights I can watch knowing I know whats going on. Although as a side note, I'm pretty ticked off at Randy. I tape the shows digitally on his PC and then watch them myself and/or burn them to DVD to send to Elena. I sent Elena all the Nip/Tuck I downloaded, but I actually taped the episode that aired last week. About in the middle of the episode Randy must've come home from wherever he was and started using his computer. This wouldn't have been so bad if ever sound the computer made didn't get picked up on the audio track of the TV file. So I'm watching and I have to hear the sound Windows makes when he unplugs his iPod, I hear him using AIM to talk to people and just random noises the IE makes. Really annoying and I told him so. But then it got worse. On Sunday I was watching that new Denis Leary show, Rescue Me on my laptop, which I had taped right after Nip/Tuck and I start hearing the sounds of porn through my TV show. Come on Rand! Thats what you have a laptop for! The worst part is I already burned all this stuff to DVD, thinking it was OK and sent it off to Elena. I already warned her and am trying to download a new copy of the show.

Saturday started off really well as Elena had a little video chat, which was fun. No, it wasn't a sexually oriented one, but it was nice anyway, just to see each other moving instead of just hearing them on the phone was nice. Then later in the day, after taking the dog for a bath and nail trim, my little brother and I went to see Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, which was really stupid but really funny, so in the end, enjoyable for the shut your brain off and just enjoy the movie type of thing. Then my cousin, who flew in from DC on Friday went to Randy's friends house for a Luau themed party which was fun. I was hesitant to go, because I really didn't know anyone there and it was almost an hour drive in each direction, but I went anyway and had a good time. Went home, had some pizza for dinner and watched The Sixth Sense, because my cousin never saw it.

Sunday I just kind of lounged around the house for most of the day, but in the afternoon my family went to my mom's aunt and uncle's apartment in Brooklyn to get together with my mom's cousin and her kids from Israel. That was fun. It was cool to see them, as we only get the chance every few years. Had a kickass meal and a local Italian restaurant as well. Only problem is, that once we get over all the weirdness of having to talk to someone we haven't seen in years and actually talking and having fun its time to go. Oh well. Such is life. Went home and watched some TV before I passed out. Unfortunately Keyser was being a pain in the ass. Since he was crated from when we left at like 3 until 10 when we got home he was all over the house. Just too much energy if you ask me. He wouldn't settle down to go to sleep and puked twice in the middle of the night. Nasty if you ask me.

So that was my weekend in a nutshell. Hope everyone had a good one as well and is dealing with Monday better than I am.

I booked my ticket this morning to go see Elena in London once more, with feeling, as they say in her business. American Airlines, my airline of choice for every trip I've taken over there was running a special, one-way to London for $158 each way, so all told, with taxes my ticket came to a shade under $420. I already put in my request to upgrade my seat both ways from coach to business class. I figure its my last trip, might as well do it in style. Worst case, if I don't get business class my seat in coach is at least at a bulkhead, so I'll have plenty of leg room, just not all the good service and free alcohol. I was put on a waiting list for business class and they'll give me a call if it opens up.

Originally Elena was all for me using my miles and some of hers (since I'm basically going to bring stuff back with me) to upgrade my seat, but once I told her that I actually have a decent seat in coach she said that maybe we should save the miles for any future trips we take. My point was, thats not going to be for awhile since after this trip, I have exactly 4 days that I can take off and not get docked pay. One of those days is already set aside for the day after Brett's wedding. He's getting married on a Sunday, and the ceremony and reception is being held within walking distance of my house. Needless to say I'll be walking there and someone (or a few people) will have to carry me back. I can't wait for that.

In the end, Elena said to do what I want, and what I want is business class, so hopefully I'll get it. If not, then we have a bunch of miles to use for free flights once she gets home. Oh, and did I mention she's coming home a few days earlier. Originally it was Friday, September 24th, but now she's coming home on Tuesday the 21st. I can deal with three days earlier, since its only a week after I leave on the 14th, so its all good. I can't wait for one last time in London to have some fun. We're probably going to go see Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and I never did take the tour of the Tower of London to see the Crown Jewels. Maybe another ride on the London Eye, who knows. Anything else we do will just be a bonus. So thats it for London.

I have a somewhat busy weekend coming up, which I guess is a good thing. My cousin is flying in from DC for the weekend, and I luckily weaseled my way out of picking her up at the airport, mostly because I have no desire to drive to LaGuardia in rush hour traffic and wait to pick someone up. So I got my older brother to do it. Lucky him. Tomorrow afternoon/night my older brother and I are going to a Luau type party at his friend Andrea's house. She's like the Grace to my brother's Will, if he was gay, which for all I know he could be, but he did just breakup with a girl for having excess facial hair, so maybe he's not into masculinity in a mate. The party should be fun. Then on Sunday my family is heading on into Brooklyn to visit my mom's aunt and uncle, as my mom's cousins, who live in Israel are in the US visiting. So we're all going out to dinner or something. Haven't seen my cousins in a few years, so its always fun to get together. Should be interesting.

Alright, back to work, or more importantly, time to go get lunch. Hope everyone has a good day and a great weekend! Adios!

There is so much stuff inside of my head just waiting to spill out, I don't even know where to begin, or how I'm going to contain it all. There's just too much to talk about... no wait... that's bull... there's like nothing to talk about, really, I just wanted to sound important!

Been a boring two days of work, mostly because its summer and everyone goes on vacation, so this place is dead. I don't have any huge projects to work on, although I'm eyeing one, if only my boss will allow me to proceed, which we'll see when I bring it up at our next staff meeting, whenever the hell that is (they're supposed to be every Wednesday, but they've kind of been cancelled for like the past two months). That's work.

At home, everything is boring. I think this is one of the worst summer's yet. It especially sucks when compared with last summer. This summer the weather has sucked big time, last year it was OK. This summer there is nothing to do or see, and aside from the occasional concert and my week in Europe, its been pretty lackluster. I think its because Elena was around last summer and we had just started dating and you know how fun that can be, and this summer she's finishing up her stuff in London. I'm sure that's it.

Speaking of Elena, she's really bummed that she didn't get this part in a show that would've run for a week before she left. She's really depressed about it, but I think she's really looking forward to coming home, which is good to hear. I need to book my ticket this week to go over there one last time to help her bring a lot of stuff back. I think I've settled on the date too. She's coming home for good on Sept. 24, a Friday. She doesn't want me around the last few days as she ties up all her loose ends, which is cool with me. I was thinking of coming the weekend before the 24th, but that would probably crowd her, so I think I'm going to go the weekend before that one, which is right after Labor Day, Sept. 9 - 14, which would leave me in a foreign country on 9/11, but oh well. If something is going to happen, it'll happen, no sense not living life, right?

So I need to book my ticket, and soon. I priced it out today at its about $420. It was $500 this time last week, so I should jump on it, especially if I want to upgrade to business class, which is a must after the royal treatment I got last time in business class. I must admit, I'm hooked on people calling me Mr. and giving me champagne for the whole flight. I get paid this week, so I'll just pay off some of my credit card before I charge some of it back up to buy my ticket. I know that sounds retarded, but I earn miles by using the damn credit card, so I might as well.

Other than that, nothing doing. I'm now addicted to Nip/Tuck and I don't know why, but damn is that show good, in a really trashy Melrose Place kind of way. It makes me wish I would've stuck with my life's ambition in the 5th grade, to be a plastic surgeon, but I'm much to squeamish to be a doctor. I couldn't even handle dissecting a frog in junio high. The scenes where they do surgery are gross, but damn, the women on that show are H-O-T! I think Elena would dig it too, so I'm debating burning her a copy of the DVD's while I download all the shows of the new season I miss so I can get caught up. I think its right up her alley, and she's almost done with all the Angel and Buffy I left her in the beginning of July. I swear all the girl does is watch TV shows on DVD, but then again, so do I lately, so that means we're perfect for each other.

Alright, back to work, or more importantly, probably off to lunch. Need to get some blank DVD's and possibly a movie at Best Buy. We shall see. Adios for now!

Just got back from seeing The Village and I must say, it was pretty damn interesting. Good movie and well worth the $6.25 admission and I must say, better than Signs. The ending to that movie was just too damn dumb. I mean, come on, aliens invade the Earth, which is 70% water, and their one weakness is water, thats just dumb. But The Village was good and after thinking about it very appropriate for this day and age, what with the news trying to keep us in line by scaring the shit out of us every night of the week. So, in my expert opinion, go see it. Its good. I don't want to spoil it or anything, because thats almost all the fun of seeing M. Night's movies, the surprise ending. My jaw dropped at the end of The Sixth Sense, and I loved Unbreakable. Signs, like I said, was OK, but the water thing still gets me. The Village, good stuff.

In other news my parents are back and the house was in suitable condition so that my mom didn't flip out too much. All the laundry was done, just not sorted, or folded or ironed or anything, but at least it was done and there was nothing for her to do when she got home except my parents laundry from their trip. I've been chilling out all weekend watching Dead Like Me on DVD. Pretty decent show. Next up will be Nip/Tuck and then some Simpsons. Lets just say I went on a little spending spree at Best Buy, but hey, I work hard. I deserve it.

Alright, I'm going to stop babbling now. Too bad its Sunday and the weekend is almost over. I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Adios.