February already... this year, just like the previous one, is flying by already. Sometimes its crazy for me to think that I have been in Oregon for 4 whole months now. I know I haven't been blogging very much here lately, and for that I apologize. Hopefully this month will be filled with entries, starting with this one.
I left off last time with the trip down to Cali. To sum up the rest of the trip would be a horrible thing to do, so I'll try to contain it in a paragraph. Here goes.
After getting to his mom's, and showering after being in the car for so long, he started going through some of the things he had left there, among which was his original Nintendo. We plugged it in and it still worked! The game... Tetris. No blowing needed, the cartridge played on the first shot. The rest of the trip, any free time was spent trying to top each other's scores, and even now, we are trying to find a copy of the game that we can play here. His mom, Carol, was even in on it, just as excited as we were. Day two started off with AMAZING breakfast burritos from a little place called Corner Cottage in Burbank, I believe, as well as me not having any voice at all. I'll have to double check with him on the location but they were soo good. We grabbed 6 of them and took them to Acme Key, the shop he worked at while he was living there and where his dad still works. Let me tell ya, it was an interesting time meeting all these new people... and not being able to actually speak the word "Hello!"... For those that really know me... you know how hard it is for me to be quiet... Torture I tell you! But any way.... An hour or two with the guys at the shop and stuffed with burrito, we left there and headed back to his mom's just long enough to give her her's and take off again. This time on the way to Northridge Hospital to see his grandparents. His grandpa was sitting in the chair and doing much better than he had been, not to mention he was talking everyone's ears off. His grandma was about to smack him for telling his life story to everyone that walked in the room. They were very sweet, however, and enjoyed our visit. I must say, the view from the window is one of the best I've seen from hospitals. Sun covered streets lined with palm trees. Beautiful. Anyway... an hour and a half or so later, we get back into the car and were off to Simi Valley to do the first of quite a few meet'n'greets with his friends. First on the list as it happened was Marisa. We grabbed some lunch with her and headed back to her house for a bit. Leaving there, we got a hold of Jarrett, who heard us pull up and came barreling out from the house and almost tackled Chris. It was hilarious. When we left there, Jarret was with us in full Subway dress. David was next on the list...
*brb! have to help him get ready for his interview!*
...As we pulled up to the house, and walked up the drive, they were in the kitchen. He knocked on the door and got a reply consisting of something like "You said you weren't even gonna come see me, you jack*ss!"... Twenty minutes later, we leave there to take Jarret to work, then its on to make another phone call. The next meet up, me still with no voice, is Jamie. We head to Applebees and hang out there for an hour or so, making plans when we leave to head to Mark and Jamie's the next night. Grabbing a couple of chai lattes from Starbucks, we make our way back to David's. Not exciting, but relaxing... it was nice. So nice, in fact, that I ended up falling asleep on his floor. Day 3, New Year's Eve, was pretty laid back... I had my first taste of Tommy Burger... we had our first Red Box experience and rented The Sorcerer's Apprentice with his mom. After the movie, we headed over and hung out in Mark and Jamie's garage, playing on the Wii.... it was a good time. On Saturday, we went to his Dad's house and spent some time there. He made us bbq cups and home made mac'n'cheese (which I can now make!) and I got to meet his wife, Cindy, and her kids and family. It was nice being there. Sunday, January 1,was all for his mom. She went to church that morning and then picked up a chocolate cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory and brought it home. We put it in the fridge and piled in the car; Destination: Food. We went to Woodranch Barbecue....
*tie tying time!*
Amazing food, and bbq sauce. We went to the mall after that to get him new shoes and headed back to the house to play more Tetris and eat the cheesecake. The next morning we left... another 21 hour drive up the 101 due to the Grapevine being shut down by snow, including a surprise trip through part of San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge, and we were home. We got in at around 4 am and I was at work by 7am.
So, on to other events. Today is Feb. 2, Ground Hog Day. It is also my Granny's birthday. And by Granny, I mean my grandmother's grandmother, who was alive until I was around 3. She passed away in 1988, but I don't remember how old she was. I want to say in her 90's. But it also means that yesterday, February 1, was the 15 year anniversary of my Grandpa's death. As always, it was filled with tears from me... but, I know he's better off and I'm thankful for the time that I had with him.
Interview! Chris has an interview for Wells Fargo in about an hour.... hence the getting ready stuff. I know God has His hand in this and I know that he will knock'em dead. He just walked out the door. Lord, be with him.
Work... well, its work. I got a raise and put on the Courtesy Desk officially. Not that I haven't been over there, but I will finally be getting paid for it! WooHoo!
I've started to lose weight again! Its been a while.. was kinda plateaued at around 286... but I've dropped to 284.4.. and hopefully it will start to drop more. It never ceases to amaze me how much cutting out fast food can do. I've put together a menu, kinda, so Friday I will probably go grocery shopping. It means more cooking, but I've been feeling the need to do so lately so it will be a good thing. Work makes it a little difficult because I am mostly on nights, but I will just have to make time for it.
I'm still waiting on my W2 from Staples from the beginning of last year to get my taxes done. I wish it would come already. I want to know if I will be able to get a laptop or not. If not, it will all just go into my savings. I need to start building that up again. October will be here before I know it.
For now I suppose that's all... I really am going to try to keep up with my blogging now. I always forget how much I love to write until I start to do it again.
Much loves!
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