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so let us see, since july...

what've i done, since july...

july...

ah yes, got a job working at this place that sells a bajillion kinds of liquors, including but not limited to beers wines and hard alcohols

i learned a lot this summer about all of those alcoholic drinks, and i learned to appreciate beer like i had never done before, making sure i smell it and taste it, not just down it like no other, ha! wine as well, we had to go to this wine seminar thing and learn all about the different wines and how to tell things about it and blah blka blah, now i can go up to some snooty person and tell em you suck! bah....

also had a seminar on hard alcohols and it sucked... i learned form that seminar that i do NOT like drinking vodka at 10am :S

and i made some new friends, randomly went to phoenix for a few days, came back and continued work. at this point i was still living on campus, squatting at a friend's summer apt. it wasn't that bad a place at all, it just sucked because i didn't have a key to the place so sometimes i would have to wait outside until someone came home or something... :/

so that's how the summer went, a bit of surfing here and there, LOTS of work, i got to working full time and plus, and the zine project guacamole which i'm very proud of :D

so that was july slash august

in september i had to find a place to live, found one moved in, got a crush on a kid but that went nowhere, and found a really cool rooftop overlooking downtown

in about 9 days imma leave to texas, and then the 1st week of february i'm off to argentina

october brought nothing new, found some cool coffee shops and started hitting up some local bars and watching local bands, also hung out with a bunch of new people and met and made a lot of new contacts in the music/art scene

and now it's december, and that's crazy. finals week is this week, everyone is fretting and i have to start packing as well, ugh...

i'm hungry now

k so i keep forgetting about this blog, which is horrible of me, and i can't even really say i've been busy... well i have, but i should always make time for this no? but i guess that's where other notebooks come in, they're just more useful when i have a random thought and on the road or at the beach or anywhere else where i don't have access to a comp or the internet

so yes, 5 months...

• friend from Portugal came down, that month was the most intense ever... i got to show him around san diego and a bit of baja, but not much, and we went up to san francisco which was cool and frustrating at the same time, it was soooo cold
  • some shows
  • some beach
  • taught him how to skateboard
  • mmm foooooood!

• parents and bro moved
  
• got super sick on my birthday and that sucked sooooo bad :/
• then my dad and i went to mexico for a wedding, that was cool
• OOOOOOOO YEAAAAH! i got dreads :D
• and then i cut them off :/ i had 'em in for a good 5 almost 6 months too!
• snuck into coachellas music festival... all THREE days, and now i have some really neat scars on my stomach, arm, legs from jumping a fence on the 2nd day
• decided to go to argentina for a year, i would leave in december

• JUNE:
  • Moved out of the house
  • Moved back to campus
  • got a "job"
  • started a Zine
  • went to 2 of my housemate's graduations... ifeel so old sometimes haha
    

i'll start with london and the lot
what i wanted to do while in london:

• go see a show
• • didn't get to do that, although the girl at the hostel invited me to see her band, i left the day they were to play
    
• visit the free museums [the modern one sounds cool]
• • actually got to go to the tate modern, very cool :]
    
• put ksdt stickers all over the place
• • i put some on and around the london bridge bwahhaha
    
• eat fish and chips aaaahahaha
• • psh more like sandwiches and an apple
    
• take a shower
• • yeah, that was great
    
• try to get adjusted to the time difference
• • meh... kinda did
    
• figure out where i'm going to stay in spain and how i'm going to get to france
• • ended up taking a flight from london to madrid and got picked up at the airport by Hector who then took me to a hostel, where i ended up meeting a whole bunch of cool people :D
    
• oh and go to the zoo
• • nope, didn't get to do that
    
• and check out the giant ferris wheel
• • aaa the eye of london, i only observed it from down below
    
• and i know i will most definitely get lost mmhmm!
• • oh boy i loved the getting lost part :D i think that was the funnest ;P
    
• send postcards
• • yep, did that, from the post office right of the victoria station

Then I spent a few days in Madrid, missed my bus to the south of Spain so then I took a bus to Lisbon, got off in Evora accidentally, spent the nite there, got to lisbon the next day, got a room on the 4th? 6th? floor of the place, nice hike up the stairs, and walked around lisbon until almost nite time. 

then i met up with ricardo and his friends and had an amazing time, and then ended up staying at ricardo's place for a few days. I met some awesome people, and they showed me a whole bunch of places, and i got to go to the beach and boy is the water cold! brrr... then went to a music festival in the north with some of the people i'd met: paredes de coura, then came back, spent a few days at joao's missed my bus to madrid, then decided to go to the south of portugal with him and his family, spent a few days there, came back to lisbon, took a bus to madrid, took the plane to london, tried to sleep but failed to do so at the airport in gatwick, then finally flew back to los angeles where there was no one there to pick me up. so i called up hector, who'd been back in the states a few weeks, and his sister picked me up and took me home, where there was no one there... 'cause they'd all left to mexico without meeeeeeee! le sigh...

spent a few days at home by myself, hanging out with friends, baking cakes haha

then came back to san diego...

then a few days later i went camping with my friends a bit north of santa barbara

came back, started school

and... that's about it until december when i went to Costa Rica woot woot!

Costa Rica: Spent a month there with friends.
I got there, but my luggage didn't arrive for almost a week.
The first couple of days I spent it in Alajuela with friends, then we went to Jaco, a beach town, then came back a few days, went to San Jose where I spent x-mas with another friend and his family, then went to the east coast [caribbbean side] and spent there a few days with 2 friends, then came back to the city, went to alajuela and the next day left to jaco again to spend new years over there.
Celebrating the new year on the beach is awesome, i wanna do that every year! woot yeah!
Then came back to Alajuela after a few days, and left again to another beach on the Pacific side, where we camped out a few blocks from the beach and met up with more friends there. It was awesome :D
And then we finally left that beach and I bungee jumped right outside of the town and I started saying my good-bye's to everyone and then a few short days later I left :/

then i started school again and now i'm here... 

and this blog is gonna be 2 years old soon ;P 

so it's been a while

i was just listening to the tender box hence the title of the blog

ok so here's the deal: bought my ticket to london for the 2nd of august, to land over there on the 3rd in the morning

from there my plans are to hop on a train to paris and from there onto another one to madrid, i already looked up the times and prices and such

london - paris
Depart: Thu 3rd August 2006 - 15:11
Arrive: Thu 3rd August 2006 - 18:53   Duration: 02h42m

paris - madrid
Depart: Thu 3rd August 2006 -  19:43
Arrive: Thu 4th August 2006 - 09:13   Duration: 13h30m


and so that's what i have so far

and then for my return i have to catch the train in madrid on the 21st at the latest if i want to make it to my flight on the 23rd

 i wish i could stay in london a bit longer... but the youth tickets are only for like monday through thursday or something and if i don't get on the train that same day i'll have to pay way more :/

perhaps on my way back i'll catch an earlier train so i can see what london has to offer :D

boy would it be cool to be able to go up to scotland too!
i remember when hylton studied abroad over there, very cool

hmm for a while i couldn't sign on, sucked.

lesse... what's been going on in my uninteresting life.

finals week is coming up
and i don't know if i'm ready. sucks ass.
everything seems to suck as at the moment
i'm a bit behind in one of my classes, and hte other one, i don't know what my group is doing 'cause they all dropped like flies and now i have to do it all by myself (the projet)

and i'm hungry.
and a tad sunburned

ok so now for the positive side:
had lots of fun this weekend, hung out with friends i haven't hung out for a while, and went to the beach (that's always a plus :D ) and dug a hole deep enough that we could fit up to our belly button or so, and then we buried each other haha

i really like jimi hendrix i think.

oh and *** sent me some music, nouvelle vague. it's really cool, they cover old songs but in a really cool way, not like the average cover. hmm it's weird to think that [deleted]

oh and hector's license is going to be suspended for a year :(

oh and i got him a ticket to the sold out radiohead show in LA on the 30th of june. :D

i should seriously finish my essays. i'm such a procrastinator! 

Went to see Los Abandoned play... Los Abandoned Winter Prom Formal thing... i don't even really know what it was called, but anyways, i got there all late 'cause of my stupid dress grrr

and then i had to look all peeeertty and junk so yeah... and then we couln't find the place

and we got there only to see them play 2 songs :( but then they played some covers of like rock lobster and stuff so that was pretty cool :D

then we couldn't find king taco and ate somewhere else and forgot the food at the counter and then we went to sleep around 5 with eernie snooring, we being hector and i

woke up, put on my futbol uniform, hehehe, i looked outta my mind. yeah... but it was fun

went to play some soccer out on the field... that was saturday, today's monday... yah, i'm still sore...

we tried doing cartwheels and handstands too, that's why my ARMS hurt... ugh, perhaps i should do more physical excercise more often? maybe? perhaps? myabe?

hah

finally went to eat, ate, went over to josh's were they played video games as did i.

the famous blue got there and he's awesome, and then we went to buy some spray paint, and went stenciling around south gate.

finally left and got home around 11ish and i was soooooooooooo tired ugh!

fell asleep once my head hit the pillow and woke up to my dad pounding on the wall with a hammer :/

he's still fixing the bathroom... after all these months :/ haha

then i ate something, don't remember what, waited for my mom to get home, never did, left,picked up chelvia, we broke up (??? ) finished driving back to San diego

then came herere to the house and took a super duper hot showere for my aching mus-cles

fell asleep

woke up 'cause i sneexed

and now i am still awake, and i haven't studied and i have 2@!!!!!!!!!! midterms tomorrow... ugh...

yeah, that's about it.

the end.

almost a year has passed since i started this blog :o

i officially have my 1st class(es) of the quarter in 9 hours... ugh! :/

i need to buy a new organizer... why don't they sell ones that begin in september and end in june? :/

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in other news

i bought groceries today

and i haven't eaten red meat in almost 2 months

and i'm building up a box-o-stuff to send to my friend in portugal

and imma send a postcard to another friend in brazil

and another one in argentina :D

oh oh and my hair's gotten to the point where i actually had to go out and BUY a HAIRBRUSH! :O I havne't needed a comb/brush in yeeeears! ugh...

and let's see...w aht else... i bought a new lip balm... and Ra's getting bigger and i'm NOT hungry (for once) and i started reading a new book this mornng and i like chocolate and imma have my radio show this quarter on THURSDAYS from 11AM-Noon PST wohhooo

yeah, thats about it

oh and new years blew ass so hard it hit me on the head and knocked me out
x-mas too 

went down to sd yesterday to go pay my rent, and found everyone there, wish i coulda stayed :/

but anyways... i'm really bad at this boy thing... gah! it's just so much easier, for me atleast, to be friends rather than anything else, and if someone even thinks of calling me their girlfriend i will seriously stab their balls with a rusty fork, especially if i don't agree to that statement.

i'm hungry.

help. boys. weird. i'm. gah!. lost. :/

ok... so let's ssee....

in the last month or so...

• I got a job. Then quit after ONE week :/ I liked the job too... le sigh...
• • I'm still a bum
• School is over... since last wednesday for me...
  
• • what sucks is my schedule for winter quarter :/
  • Those are only the classroom numbers... not the classes...

• My bro's rat bit my ear :/
• • 

Atleast some good things have happened too... i think... :o... lemme think...

• Went to a free show... but got there too late, we only heard the last song from the last band...
• oh oh!!! got a card to get 10 dozen donuts for free!! well, i mean, you buy a dozen and you get the second dozen for free, but yey!

• Oh oh! and I started my own mini business haha, the Feed Alda Foundation :D
• • People even bought my t-shirts and a bag! :o

i'll write more later... when i remember more junk

oh and i'm almost done with my 4th? 5th? notebook, ches :D

so i started my new job today

and don't feel like eating or touching any popcorn for a while. nope.

although i wanted a slushy thing for the longest! ugh... and i was so hungry! can't belive i forgot my food... bummer
but atleast lindzers came  through, gotta love that girl! bringing me 2 pb and j sammiches to my 20 minute break, :D

 i wonder where my camera is....

i'm really diggin Telefunka... that band is so... interesting

Shay says I say the word "interesting" to mean so-so or... oh it was alright... in a not good not bad way like meh, it coulda been better, like me trying not to put it down
but i really DO mean interesting in the literal interesting sence most of the time!

Although i do agree i say interesting in the way shay means... even melvin caught on after knowing me for like 3 days. ha

Back to what i was sayng about work
I got a nifty nametag with my name on it and had to put three of those tiny band-aids on my arm to cover my tattoo up teehee
THe lady guy manager dudette was all oh no one ever really comes to work on a skateboard, i duno where you can put it... just leave it... there. when i asked where i could leave my skateboard, since it was my ride to work, haha aaaa being young. le sigh...