Sunday, July 29, 2007

Fiber is good for you

It was one of my days off of work today. I woke up at 10:45 or so because my Auntie Lara, cousin Hailey, and myself were supposed to catch Transformers at an 11 o'clock showing. We got there on time but the theater was full so we went back to my aunt's house. Then we all went to my Popo's and Gung Gung's house to eat home cooked fried rice. It was good. My Popo continues to think I am too skinny so she made me eat a lot of it. Then I attempted to teach Hailey and Garrett how to burp on cue but I proved to be a bad teacher I guess. After that we went to a Marshalls and then to my uncle's house. Apparently it is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel because we ended up watching half an hour of a special about the 10 deadliest sharks. Number 3 was a tiger shark, number 2 was the Great White, and number 1 was a Bull Shark. And the Great White not being number one is Bull $h!t my friends. I'm pretty sure Jaws was a Great White, not a Bull Shark but whatever. We shot each other with Nerf weapons and that was kind of entertaining. My uncle grilled steak on his bbq and it was yummy. Delicioso en espanol. We also had asparagus and rice to go along with the meat. Dinner was followed by more shooting others with foam darts. Dessert was chocolate cake with ice cream which was also yummy. Then my aunties took me back to their place where I currently am now. I freed the slaves today too. Unfortunately, the Underground Railroad got plugged up. Here are some random pictures of the Arizona road I took two days ago or so as well as a video of me working out with my cousin.


"Yeah if only it was Saturday! Saturday!"

I had work! Haha. I woke up at 8:30 and left for work with my uncle around 8:56. We went to Circle K and he bought me a Monster Chaos to drink later on in the day. Work was pretty low key. Well.... low key for me at least, not so much for my uncle. He's been doing all the appointments the last two days by himself because his other employees took vacation days off. Somehow, he got all the things he needed to get done accomplished with speed. To put it simply, my uncle is pretty good. Well the store was only open for 6 hours today as opposed to a usual 8 hours so it went by pretty fast.
It has been overcast for the last couple days because it's monsoon season here in Arizona. Here are some pictures of the gloomy weather.



After work, my two little cousins Hailey and Garrett as well as myself and my two aunties all went to Sweet Tomatoes! It is just like Soup Plantation and I'm all for the cheap buffet type places. It had broccoli and cheese soup too! It was pretty sweet. After that, we went back to my aunties' house where we would all spend the night. On the way home, the song "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb played on the radio. For some odd reason, all of us knew the chorus of the song and sang it aloud. Didn't sound like a gospel choir but it wasn't bad. The song was stuck in everyone's head for hours after. We played a game of Monopoly and just like every other game of Monopoly ever played.... we failed to finish. I know I didn't lose though, so I can sleep tonight feeling alright about myself. They are doing mad libs right now as I blog like a nerd. Hope all is well for everyone reading, I'm going to go back to the action going on in the kitchen.

--Random pix--
My uncle's sweet Acura NSX.


My uncle's backyard.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Work work work

I had work todayyyy. I woke up at 8:15 and ate a banana. Then my Auntie Lara and I left around 8:48 and my Uncle Lance opens shop at 9. We were six minutes late. Way to make a good first impression on the job, huh? Well it was a pretty low key day at the shop. I threw out the garbage, picked up trash outside the store (mainly cigarette buds), pulled weeds from around the store, and did some paper organizing/shredding. Around 11ish, my aunt picked up some Chinese take out from Pei-Wei. I got Mongolian chicken and it was pretty good. Then my aunt picked up some Starbucks later on in the day and I got a venti Tazo passion tea lemonade which was good too haha. It was a pretty chill first day at work. Eight hours goes by kind of slow though. I'm staying the night at my uncle's tonight so when we got back to his place after work, I played with my cousin Garrett. We were playing around with his various Nerf weapons and invented a game.

First Full Day



Today was my first full day in the AZ! It was pretty eventful. Woke up at 9 this morning (pretty early for me) and ate cereal (never never ever ever eat breakfast). It was one of those healthy kinds.... gross! Just kidding it was alright. Then my Auntie Lara (Auntie R) took me to a couple Marshalls, Ross, and TJ Maxx stores to shop around and stuff. I bought (edit: SHE bought) me a pair of "RVCA Rockers" and a black long sleeve button up Volcom shirt. The jeans were on clearance for $15! But shhhh, don't tell anyone. My other auntie (Auntie Lana) (Auntie N) had us meet her for lunch at this authentic Mexican restaurant and it was pretty good. Very busy. I had the daily special which was a green chili chicken enchilada with rice and beans. Then we went to my Popo and Gung Gung's house. My Gpa was sleeping though so I only got to see my Gma. I'll see him later though. After that, we went to my Uncle Lance's store (Creative Car Stereo) to check it out and visit. I'm starting work there tomorrow! When we got there, my aunt noticed something that looked like a dead pigeon next to the shop. Then it was confirmed. It was a dead... decapitated... pigeon. How it died, my uncle may have shot it. I'm not sure hahaha.


Here's the body...


...here's the head.

After that we went back to my aunt's house and then to two more places and bought stuff to style my hair. We had dinner at Chick-fil-A and it was good. Real good. Sweet tea wasn't that sweet though. Sweet enough I suppose but I can handle sweeter, knaww what I mean?? Then we went to my uncle's house to hang out and chill. I played some PS3 and it was cool but loaded slow. Too many features for that thing to handle I guess. Well I have an early wake up call tomorrow so I'll catch ya later. Night!

Monday, July 23, 2007

Just a Test

Well I just started this blogging thing. I will try to capture my experiences in Arizona here both in video and in words. Hope it's not too hard to manage this site. We'll begin soon! But we sleep for now...