Tattoo's & Redwood City

So tired xD from that Tracy>Hayward>San Mateo>Redwood City and back.

But I got to play with a cute fox :3 

And hung out with some pretty cool people.

Oh yeah and thy back hurts from that Tattoo still!

It just feels weird to be in depressing bankrupt Stockton again when I see so much more opportunity, life and happiness out in the bay area.

Brave

David took me to see Brave on Saturday night after I got off work. It was a surprisingly awesome movie, better than I expected. Funny, and I almost cried towards the end. This film illustrates a type of mother/daughter bond better than most any movie can.

A few days before that, Dave, I and his friends played some games on the good old Xbox 360:

Nothing boosts my ego more than beating some guys at Marvel Vs Capcom 3 a few rounds haha jk.

So I decided to reactivate my gold account.

Tomorrow I'm getting my back tattoo touched up for the first time in forever and dragging a few friends along. Then I gotta meet up with Jill to transport some animals to the San Mateo Zoo before we head up to a BBQ in Redwood City for the night.

Healing scars with my guitar

Last week, I went to downtown Sac to hang out with my friend Cory You. We met on the Fanime forums/Myspace years ago but never took the time to actually hang out. So Cory showed me all the little weird shops in Downtown Sacramento.

We visited a shop that was kinda like Rasputin but more expensive lol

An oddly colored vintage thrift store

 That had a bunch of Rainbow Brite stuff xD

We also went to Arden Fair mall and Forever 21 in Roseville.

We visited Urban Outfitters and made fun of how expensive some t-shirts were for "hipster" designs. Then Cory and I went to his apartment and he made me one of those similar designs on Photoshop for me:

Then he got me addicted to Grimes and Empire of the Sun's odd music and I went home about 2am xD

A few nights later, Edwin randomly messaged me and asked me what kinda pizza I wanted, then took me to see Snow White. Except I chose to see Avengers for the second time (still not in 3D though xP). 

A night or so later after I got off work, we went bike riding. I took the lead and we biked around Spanos Park, although I told him to make sure that I wasn't leading us into the more ghetto area's haha. Then we went to the park and swung on the swings and talked. Then a Domino's car came by and his coworkers delivered us Pasta and desserts. It was delicious. Then we just sat on the benches talking until the sprinklers came on and tried to spray us. Then we gazed at the stars.

On Sunday, Edwin took me to Buffalo Wild wings (first time I'd eaten there) and I pwned on BlackJack. Cause that's like the only card game I really like.

Kazumi, Kate and I booted up Pokemon Stadium on N64, the other day. It was sweet! ;D

And I have 3 day off in a row so I'm relaxing. My shoulders and pecs are really sore from the gym! I need to start getting ready to go to my coworkers last day party tonight and buy some drinks.

Fanime 2012

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Meet me out in Space!

Yesterday, after getting off work at 3, I got Kazumi and I some David's Pizza and we ate at her work at Bear Creek High School in a diner room. She then took me on a golf cart tour of the school. Haha my phone messes up when converting the files but it made it funnier:

Then afterward, I went to Tracy and Jill and all of us piled into Prizm and headed to Wingstop which is right next to the Save Mart store I originally was hired/worked at. I had Teriyaki and Lemon pepper boneless wings <3 They were delish!

Then back at the house, we took some shots and played some games. Jill, Meg and I all took turns playing on my LoL account. But I was pretty much too drunk to really play. Meg, Aaron and I passed out on the couch later and I went to sleep about 4:30am. Then I woke up at 6am and couldn't fall back asleep and got ready and headed back to Stockton, straight to work jajaja.

I'm working at a different Save Mart tomorrow/for the week. I'm excited for a change of scenery xD

Fanime in 6 days!

RIP Imogene Whipple

So last weekend was a good weekend. After coming home from Jill's party early in the morning, I was greeted by my brother Kevin visiting in Stockton. We went up as a family to Murphy's and greeted everyone there for my Grandma's funeral.

But I nearly shed tears when one of my mom's relatives named Lisa came up to me and told me and Kevin that the last time they visited my grandma in the hospital before she passed, they had their ipad out and they were showing pictures of me and Kevin that were on my mom's Facebook to her. And my grandma smiled and the nurse came in and was shocked and claimed that, that was the first time she ever really smiled. Then my grandma passed a few days later. Lisa said she musta passed contently seeing the current pics of me and Kevin.

We then had the pastor read prayers and hymns etc and my mom, uncle Steve and Lisa went up and shared memories of my grandma. Then voluntarily, Kevin and I went up and did an impromptu speech about our Grandma. I recalled to the audience of how Grandma had always been into nature, going to Big Tree's or the Moaning Caverns etc. How I visited Stories & Stones with her when I came to see her. How she liked frogs and had an electronic sensor frog that creeked on her front porch when you walked by. How I ran off to the creek behind her house to play and she encouraged it but my parents were afraid of me getting kidnapped and didn't like me doing so. How she taught me to float on my back (kinda) at the community pool by the cabin.

 Kevin added his input saying we would go to her house to have fun and she would have some kinda job for us like raking or learning to play the piano xD But all in all, I realize she was a really good person inside and I'm sad I couldn't have spent more of my adult life with her.

My Grandma Imogene was a person of the written word. She would write to people to change things, her input of political stands, protesting the rainforests from being cut down. Etc. She kept every single letter and card she got. She kept copies of her most influential and important letters.

 

Afterward at the reception, I had a sandwich and my mom was given a copy of the family tree from her side of the family. My brother pointed out to me how we always flocked to dad's side of the family more. As we went and stood around Uncle Dennis and Aunt Karen when they had arrived xD;;
 

We tried going to the Murphy's park afterward but it was so packed. I had never seen so many people in Murphy's before when I went there growing up! It looks to be like a hot spot for hipsters now x_X

Afterward my brother played Pepsiman on PSone at our house  -_-;; he bought that game from Kuwait for me years ago! Then we went on an adventure at Safeway and had dinner at Outback Steak House. Later on, I drove Kevin to Rasputin and we shifted through several 50 cent CD's haha;; I found him a few PSone games that he may trade on Goozex later.

 

Then I took my bro to Wal-mart. What's there to do in Stockton? We literally walked circles around Wal-mart for an hour and a half, talking about life and things going on. It's weird how I never talk to him when he's at his home on the East Coast but bring him by for a day and it will be like he never left, like we are instant best siblings. But I plan to take a vacation in July/August and fly out to visit him and check out North Carolina. I may even consider moving out there but that's a whole nother scenario.

I took my brother to play Laser Tag at Zaps Zone but the guy messed up on selling us tickets and we only got to play one game. So I have 4 free sessions for the next visit.

I took Kevin to get a Slurpee and we went home and crashed. I woke up around 8am and was having anxiety for some reason. Dad made us breakfast and when I went to pour myself a glass of chocolate soymilk, I dropped it all over myself x_X I cleaned it up and could barley eat breakfast and spent the next few minutes crying about how clumsy I am, and how I would miss my brother while I went to work.

Waiting for a ride in the Dark

So Friday the 27th, I went and bought some Save mart cookies, chips and Smirnoff to bring to Jill's party after swimsuit shopping and getting my nails painted at Fantasy Nails next to my work. It's funny going in there on my days off cause the workers plus regular customers getting their pedi's on are like, "wow this is the first time I've seen you not working" or "you work there like everyday!"

 When I first got to Jill's, well basically I was the only one there, besides Hemi Cory and Edwin I think? But the guys went out for supplies, then Kris came. And Jill had us doing chores for the party to set up haha. Like I cleaned her bird cage and dusted chairs. We were like "THIS IS SO FUN JILL!"

Anyways, yeah started off the night with some drinking games. Rocketship. Kings Cup-which I lost and nearly puked xD I was just bouncing around all over the place and sobered up in the hot tub when it finally got hot enough at midnight haha. There was some creep watching us through the window at the house next door. Kinda reminded me of Disturbia. Oh and someone went missing, well he locked his keys and phone in his car and there was puke all over the place in the front seat. After looking everywhere, they found the guy sleeping in his trunk. I myself, didn't sleep till 4:30am, crashing on Jill's couch and had to be in Stockton by 9 the next morning. That was lovely >_>

I forgot to give Jill her copy of the rafting trip pictures, nor did I give Cory his PSP games back. Sometimes it feels like I never get enough time to catch up with some people  :[