Wake-Up Call from a Guy Who Ain't Getting Any!

But this morning around 09:00AM I woke up to a rather disturbing call from an unknown number. The guy identified himself as just "C" each time I asked him for his name, but pretty much kept ignoring my requests for his name by asking questions such as where I lived, who was with me, and if I wanted to mess around. Finally he identified himself as "Chris," but didn't say a surname.

After questions like that I actually remembered this guy from three months ago; he called me around March thinking I was the girl who gave him that number, but when I told him he had the wrong number that time, he just said, "Well fuck it. You sound sexy. Let's talk." (It's funny he said that, 'cause the first time he called was past midnight and I know I sounded real groggy.) The way he talked though was really pushy and aggressive, and highly unintelligent since he kept saying "fuck" after what seemed like every other word. I did not want to continue the conversation at all since he never told me his name, but he kept pressing for answers to personal questions going as far as asking if I wanted to hook up and "do it." I only answered one question, which he asked if I had a boyfriend, and I said yes. But he had the nerve to say, "Fuck that, he don't have to know." (NO ONE disrespects my boyfriend! ... except me. ^_^) It was such a turn-off, that I decided to use his words against him and bid him goodnight saying, "Fuck off!" and hung up and dozed off back into dreamland.

And now that asswipe calls me again 3 months later in a rude awakening to ask the same shit he asked before. And this time it was even worse; he sounded like he had already started getting busy with himself! Again I asked for his name (because this time I planned to report him to the police), but he wouldn't give me anything more than "Chris," so I told him "that's not good enough" and again hung up and called the police.

I would think that if he enjoys pleasuring himself without having to look at a girl that he wouldn't have to call one so she can hear him enjoying himself while she's sitting there confused. I, for one, had a horrible morning. He wasted 2 minutes and 20 seconds of my life. I could've poured out some cereal for myself in that amount of time.

Posted 06.28.2008 @ 09:32PM PST [&]
♫ "Two of Us" by 浜崎あゆみ

A Day at Newport Beach

I hardly took pictures but my hands were either wet or sandy pretty much most of the time. ... I wanna go to the beach again. And this time I need to remember to bring sun block lotion- my shoulders are red.

Posted on 06.19.2008 @ 10:24PM PST [&]
♫ "Summer Rain" by Hayley Westerna

My poor babies...

Rest In Peace
Brownie, December 2005 - June 17, 2008
Cherry, June 2003 - June 17, 2008

My two guinea pigs, Brownie & Cherry, both joined their passed brothers Oreo & Choco this afternoon due to an unconfirmed cause(s). My youngest sister found both of them laying on their sides this afternoon, their bodies already stiff and surrounded by a few flies. Temperatures here have hit the 100°F-range, and someone forgot to attach their water bottles to their cage this morning. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that until after we found them motionless. I believe there were three main factors causing their deaths:

• lack of water, causing dehydration and constipation, leading to fatigue
• the cage was outdoors; even though sheltered in the shades of trees, both guinea pigs were exposed to air at least 100°F (guinea pigs don't handle high heat very well)
• the guinea pigs were found dead, laying on cement because my dad prefers to keep them off the grass. Heat is reflected by stone and cement, therefore both guinea pigs were standing over a cement stove instead of grass, which absorbs heat.

They weren't really just pets to us. They were our babies of over three years. I'm thinking about opening a web-shrine for them as well as the other pets who have passed under our care for one reason or another where I can display photos of them.

My guinea pigs... they will be missed.

Posted on 06.17.2008 @ 09:17PM PST [&]
♫ nothing.

FINALLY! An actual site facelift!

The good thing is that a layout color scheme did come out of the various images I found on Okami-Art.com, the image gallery for Capcom's Japanese sumi-e style game Okami. I've actually been meaning to create a layout using images from this game months ago when the game was first released on the Wii, but I felt it would make more sense for me to finish the game first and then create a layout based on it, rather than create a layout about something I knew absolutely nothing about. I only recently finished the game a couple days ago. It has one kick-ass storyline and gorgeous animations to illustrate it. In fact it's aesthetically the most beautiful game I've ever played. And it really does sound weird saying considering "beautiful" is not a mainsteam word for describing video games, heh.

Anyway, I've felt like the site once again needs some major revamping. I've already pretty much decided to close down the poetry section of the site; I hardly even updated it anymore anyway. I am also closing the Photography page so I can do some cleaning up, since most of the photos are really old and outdated. Speaking of photography, I still hardly use that new camera I bought late last year... Now that I'm actually returning to some photography with a higher-quality camera, maybe I will be able to take better pictures, and not to mention more variety. Most of my photos from before were of nature photography... =/ I already cleaned up some of the old unwanted photos from my personal photo gallery. I really don't like keeping very much unnecessary content on this site, especially since the space I'm using is not my own but my hostess', Britney.

Also, regarding my space usage, I feel like such a total mooch since I'm one of only two hostees left on Britney's domain. I've been thinking about ordering my own domain for a while, but because I don't have a job I fear I won't have the money for when I get the invoice for the service, which means I'll have to hold off on owning my own domain until I can come up with $400 on a fairly frequent basis. Unfortunately, the job searching I've been doing for the past three months isn't looking too bright... I don't know when I'll be getting a job again. =( Nonetheless I truly do appreciate Britney for hosting me for the past couple years! I didn't even plan on keeping the site that long... and to think it's been 7 years since I first opened it as a measly little MS Paint art gallery. lol

The unfortunate thing about the next month is that I start summer school in another week. That means school everyday starting at 07:35AM... I hardly even wake up earlier than 9!! And this also means that I'll be having school almost everyday... and will be really busy for the next month like I was during the 9 months of my first year in college. =/ I feel bad for the other friends who just finished up a regular year of school and have only a week before they have to go back for summer school.

And Jose owes me more turtle food... our goldfish "Bait" (yes, that was its name...) was only welcomed by the turtle neighbors for 2 days before he... well... the pictures explain it.

I don't know if I should feel guilty for animal cruelty but it seems that the fish were intended to be sold as animal feed for reptiles... I mean these were far under a dollar each according to Jose, and there were other fish that were being sold for at least $3... kinda sad to think of cheaper fish as turtle food, actually. Still... I don't think the turtles mind live food once in a while...

Posted on 06.16.2008 @ 05:19PM PST [&]
♫ "早春" by 島谷ひとみ

Being the House's Watch-Dog

So my mom left for Thailand on Monday of last week, June 2nd. She has called us I believe twice since her departure. I really miss her. Since she left I suddenly became a mom and housekeeper to top off being a sister to 2 girls and a daughter to the working dad. I am so glad I won't be a student again until after my mom comes home. Note to self: don't get pregnant, and mooch off the parents while the cost of living is ridiculously high.

What I mean by that is that since my mom left things at home have of course become harder to deal with, since now my mom's burden is split between me and my two younger sisters on top of what we already had to do before. Her work is bearable, but very tedious. I'm usually left with the heaviest of the burdens for one reason or another, whether it's that the other sisters forgot to do it, they have an "errand" to run (or so one of them says... maybe I'll blog about that later), or they simply don't know how to do it. Among the things I have to take care of include...

• sweeping/mopping floors
• cleaning bathrooms (yuck...)
• water the gardens during early morning
• feed the pets, change their water and clean their poo
• secure the house in the evening so we don't get break-ins (our neighborhood is borderline ghetto)
• do laundry every weekend, and
• wash the dishes among other things.

The good thing about the sisters though is that they *do* cook a little bit. I've been worried about food because my budget for the next two weeks is very limited and my dad's probably one of the most frugal people in the world, even resisting buying food. I can barely cook much at all (quite sadly lol) and even if I could we hardly have the right ingredients at home. We're lucky we still have rice from our previous visit to the Asian market a while back, since nowadays the price of rice has skyrocketed to $50 for the largest bag; it used to be half the price before the rice shortage back in mainland Asia. Groceries are becoming expensive these days, but I think I could spare a $20 for raw ingredients... I just doubt it'll last us very long since last time we had decent food, my dad ate most of it and left me & and the sisters with nothing but bread and butter... and Doritos... for dinner. He doesn't cook, and he actually had the nerve to tell us to "eat Doritos" for dinner after he finished all the good food! I don't even like eating junk-food! It's interesting though, because my mom left us for almost a month way back when I was 9 years old to attend a ceremony, and my dad did this exact same thing to us before too where our diet was junk food, canned or frozen food, or fast food. I'm not a very big fan of any of those except as a last resort.

I really miss my mom. I feel bad because her plants are practically her other babies and their flowers are shriveling up quickly... I've been watering them everyday almost consistently depending on the whether, but throughout the rest of this week the temperature is only supposed to keep increasing... it makes me worry about those plants. =/ They've taken quite a beating from the whether especially since the hail storm from 3 weeks ago which punched holes all over the leaves of most plants.

On a brighter note, I definitely have been able to find some time off housekeeping duties for two days out of the past week. Funny thing though, that although my sister has been going out almost every single day, she tries to ding me for coming home later than I said I would; my family expects me to come home from anywhere before 10PM, but they let her stay out until past midnight and they don't say shit about it. Talk about a favoritism. They're putting her softball plaques AND her high school diploma all over our house's walls! And when I asked what to do with mine (I had numerous as well having graduated high school as valedictorian and student of the year), my parents told me they'll put all of them up in just my room! UGH! My diploma has more seals on it than hers!

Okay that wasn't a bright note either but there was some good coming out of my out-of-house adventures with Isabelle, Richard, and Jose. I joined Isabelle and Jose to attend a summer school orientation that we ended up not even needing anyway, and drove practically all over the place to find somewhere to eat. Isabelle being her feisty, picky self (haha don't hurt me, Izzy!) made it difficult for Jose to settle for one restaurant to eat at; since I hardly ate at restaurants, I was all for anything. Izzy and Jose apparently eat out a lot though so I let them pick. After what felt like almost half an hour of driving around we finally settled for BJ's and well... after finding out no one was at Izzy's house to let her in, we all went to my house to find ourselves a little troubled that my other sister had left my youngest sister at home. My youngest sister is 13 years old but I do worry about her being home alone because my other sister almost always fails to secure the house before leaving, and later we found the car she took at someone's house who had nothing to do with the location that she told me about over the phone. So she lied to me and put my youngest sister in potential danger. But I'll leave that for another blog. It's a very long story. After that the three of us headed back to my house and played some Mario Kart: Double Dash to blow off some steam.

Since then I've been keeping in close contact with Jose, since he got free gas through connections with his dad's company and could drive us around pretty much anywhere. We did a LOT of catching up, since prior to my finishing my first year in college he would only call me once every three months... that was his pattern. I never remembered it though, haha. So a couple days ago we went out since he had the sudden urge to find Mario Kart Wii. We literally drove to nearly every electronics store in our area to find it, but not even Richard's store had any in stock; everywhere we looked, they were sold out. So Rich accompanied Jose and I in the search for that game from 2 in the afternoon to 8 in the evening and at that point we felt so out of luck Jose started calling stores outside our city to see if they had any in stock. And finally we turned to our last stop: Blockbuster. Rich and I had our doubts that they carried the game or even had it available for rent, but as luck had it, we found several copies of the game sitting on their shelf! It was funny because that store was the closest to Jose's & Rich's house, yet we were looking in stores that sat far from their houses, at the borders of the city. Jose looked so happy to finally have his hands on it he hugged the box while we walked out of the store and we were approached by a security guard who probably thought Jose was trying to run off with a stolen item. Hahhahaha.

Speaking of his impulse buys, Jose also brought me a goldfish and a ghost shrimp to feed my baby turtles yesterday. The funny thing about that is that part of the goldfish's tail got bitten off by my round little turtle, and now it seems like they're all buddy-buddy. Then again the fish and the shrimp were too fast for the turtles to snap at them. Essentially they're still swimming in circles like they always do, but at least they have an objective to catch them! My oldest and largest turtle also dug a new nest two days ago. I never saw how many eggs dropped in there, but I'm guessing it's between 7 and 10 eggs. I fear the last nest she made last month didn't survive the hailstorm 3 weeks ago; I heard that it rained so much that it flooded our yard, and more than likely the water drowned the nest. =(

I really need to start updating more often... these lengthy blogs are starting to depress me since now I'm too lazy to reread them, haha.

Posted 06.11.2008 @ 02:40AM PST [&]
♫ "Cherry Blossom Storm" by Yamaguchi Hiroshi