Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
the DAY before my asian adventure
by the way, i'm officially moved into mom and dad's house. i think thats going to be the real adventure. didn't realize how much crap i had at that apartment till i tried moving it all into one tiny room.......
oh! just to fill you all in on what has been going on during these last weeks of unemployment, i just got back from a perfect road trip to and around central california. here are some pics:
Saturday, June 7, 2008
DAY ???: i just saved 3 lives
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
DAY 11: junk mail isn't really junk
i got my unemployment papers in the mail too. very exciting.
this is the most exciting picture in today's series. career books. lots of them. went to the library to see if i could find some books to guide my path to non-unemployment. These are the ones i found. the library is great!
the excitement of unemployment is wearing off. actually trying to find a job. its not that fun :(
Monday, June 2, 2008
DAY 2 to 7: just call me a pit tootsie
WEDNESDAY i drove down with Debbie down to the ranch. I got settled into my room and was greeted by a family of beetles right outside my room (3 of them dead); gotta love mexico. Pretty much just hung out the whole day, helped out with some posters, then spent the rest of the afternoon by the pool. I actually worked on my resume a bit, read a little, took a little nap. It was nice. Then I met up with the guys down at the shop to check out what
I know, that’s not a picture of me putting on decals, but someone had to take the picture)
THURSDAY was
the day of the party so i helped out with a lot of the setup that needed to be done in the morning. By the time lunch came around we were pretty much done with what we had to do before the party (hung sponsor banners, setup table
centerpieces, setup swag table) started so me and my crew (crystal, roger, and my new friend er
in) took some beers back out to the pool and continued to work on my tan. After a few hours of layin in the sun I had to man my post, giving out t-shirts and posters. I got yelled at by Debbie who caught me with a beer while I was working, but she knows I love her, and knows that I didn’t intentionally not listen to her. Someone GAVE the beers to me =) oh yeah, party was alright, nothing too exciting
FRIDAY was contingency (a chaotic line up cars waiting to get tech inspected by SCORE officials in downtown ensenada) we brought the car down, hung out with the car, and made sure it had all the right stamps of approval before it went through tech. I had to pee, and was really upset when I found some porta-potties that made you pay. The upsetting part wasn’t that I had to pay, but that they actually charged more for chicks than guys to pee. (50 more cents bought me some tp and a toilet seat cover. What chick actually sits on those things??). after contingency, we went to grab lunch at the most AMAZING fish taco place that you will find anywhere. It was called la chispa fish (note: not la chispa pescado). Angelita was the little angel from heaven who served the best tacos de pescadito y camaron. omg they were good. If youre ever in Ensenada you have to stop there. Imagine a short mexican lady, that looks Chinese (only looks, she isn’t, I asked) smiling and serving fish and shrimptacos fresh out of the fryer. Oh yeah, and she’s the biggest robby gordon fan in mexico to top it off.
SATURDAY was race day! I actually busted out my computer out while driving down to our pit, and got a lot of shit for being a dork that not only
has a blog, but that I was actually blogging in our truck. Whatever. Here’s what I wrote: “ So currently I'm sitting in a truck driving down Hwy 3 down to KM 102 – Nuevo Junction, with the
driver of the second leg of the race, jose veloz arzate and tom and jeff, my two co-chase trucke
rs (chase 33, right jeff?) There we are going todrop off Senor Jose, refuel t
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race car and do whatever else needs to be done to it (well, Tom and Jeff will, I have the very important job of changing out the tape for the in car camera; see picture on left) after that, nick and matt gonna get out of the race car, we'll chase for a couple more hundred miles then head back to Ensenada to wait for the car to finish tonight." That was written in the morning and that’s pretty much what we did. Lots of excitement, lots of sitting around in the middle of the desert and lots of fun.
The car finished in 7th in Class 1 around 11:15 PM, which was pretty good considering their competition. (I’d go into the specifics of the car, but quite honestly know nothing about them). We celebrated by drinking more beers and just hanging out with our Mexicans. The last picture of the night, is us eating tacos on the floor of one the ranch rooms by candlelight, cuz the generator was off by the time we got back at 2:14 AM. It was romantic, especially for the boys.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
the real DAY 1 of unemployment: AMAZING

so today was really my first day of unemployment. the morning started off with phil knocking on my door to wake me up. (i didn't want to sleep in, i'd feel like a bum if i did). i'm usually the one waking him up but the tables have turned a bit AND he even made me breakfast. what a nice guy. after a scrumpcious breakfast of rice rolls dipped in soy sauce and a slight hint of chili paste, i said good bye to my brother from another mother and started off my day. filed for unemployment. chatted online for a bit. watched an episode of i love lucy. went for a run to my lake. i tried to do my laundry. but apparently my apartment complex is filled with other unemployed bums who like to do their laundry on monday mornings. who knew monday morning was the new sunday afternoon. as a result i had to wait an hour until two machines cleared up (i like to run them simultaneously, it saves time), but ended up having to do them one at a time. it was rough.
by the time the laundry fiasco was over and i finished another episode of john and kate plus 8 (an very old one i must say), it was time to shower and get ready for my lunch date with ms. judy jung. i met up with judy at mimi's, and had a very nice conversation about her wedding and my current state over a scrumptious lunch of french onion soup and mimi's famous and my favorite walnut and blue cheese salad. mmm...hit the spot

that takes me to where i am now, listening to ingrid michaelson on my ipod, working on my current job as blogger and loving life on the beach. oh yeah, didn't quite get to the resume, but my meter is running out. guess i'll have to save it for another day (probably on the beach). by the way, phil, this really might turn into bumfest 2008 :)