i don't like eating meals alone. (unless i'm at home, of course.) i've only eaten by myself in restaurants a handful of times in my life, and nowadays, i would heavily resist the idea of doing so. it just seems so... lonely, i guess.
thus the reason why i usually get takeout or fast food on weekdays; alan and ting usually cook for themselves, so i just get food for myself. sigh. i wish i had an eating buddy, but then again, that would most likely take its form as a girlfriend, wouldn't it?
i asked eharmony girl #2 today if she wanted to meet up over the weekend. we've had some good e-mails going back and forth, so we'll see what happens.
man, i am listless today. and, to counteract my worsening tics, i've been smoking a lot more, every hour, on the hour. and seeing how i got up early today (to take my car in for its 60K inspection), that's a lot of cigarettes! man. i wonder if my tourette's will ever get well-behaved enough to allow me to quit.
yes, i still use smoking as an excuse to calm down my tics. but the thing is, it *does* work, for the moments that i'm actually puffing away. i don't tic much (if at all), and that short break from the tics is really nice.
i am itching to go home and watch monday night football. not that i really care about either the packers or the panthers, but it'll get nice to veg out in front of the tv (with that red piece of acetate on my glasses).
hey, i have a question. does anybody get these messages on IM saying that you've been logged off because you were signed on on another device? what does that mean? did somebody hack my password and log on as me? *shivers* i hope NOT. my password(s) are precious precious secrets!
not much going on today. like i said, i hate mondays, and especially this one because i couldn't sleep until my regular time (i.e. bringing the car in). sleep was been totally BLISSFUL lately, because the weather's cooled down. cold weather sleeping is the BEST! *snuggle*
*tic*
DAMN THESE TICS!
still haven't gotten wind of any good shows on television. i only watch _scrubs_ on tuesday nights, and i'm going to give _joey_ and (maybe) _the apprentice_ another chance on thursday.
btw, are lex luther and clark kent enemies on _smallville_ yet? that's the only thing that i care about in that show.
so let's talk about plucking cheek hairs. while in europe, i let them grow out, so that i looked like a cat with very short whiskers. and when i finally got back to the states, i plucked them ALL out in a five-minute tweezer flurry. and now, after two weeks, they're starting to grow back again. i can't wait to pluck again!
yup. that is all. toodles!
so this is the first five-day workweek i've had since the first week of august. let me tell you, it sucks.
:(
damn, my tics are bad today. i've developed a crunching tic that really hurts the nerves on the left side of my neck. *RAAR* someone help!
i am, however, being diligent on the odd exercises that my chiro neuro told me to do. they involve the following:
1) staring at my left thumb 5 seconds at a time, for 4 minutes, 3x a day
2) dry gargling for 1 minute, 3x a day
3) taping this red acetate to the left side of my glasses for 45 minutes, 2x a day
yeah, weird, huh? especially that last one... i warned alan not to freak out when he sees me with the red film over my glasses. yes, it's all hocus pocus magic stuff, and it's costing quite a bit to see this guy, but i'm all out of ways of combatting my tourette's, so i have nothing to lose (except $$$), right?
so it turns out that speed dating is a no-go. ben and yuji both can't make it, and no way i'm going by myself again.
oh! so at the housewarming party on saturday, i bumped into this girl who seemed familiar. she said the same thing, and when i asked her where i knew her from, she looked uncomfortable and said hastily, "i'll tell you later." and then, i realized... i saw her at speed dating! she was with a guy, so maybe she didn't feel comfortable telling me in front of him that we were at such an event. hehe.
small world, i guess.
my cowboys lost yesterday. :( i don't think they're going to make the playoffs this year. sigh.
but still, it was a wonderful thing yesterday, getting home and watching some football. sundays are great once again!
being at tony roma's yesterday, i noticed a large number of obese people eating there. man, i'm just not used to seeing overweight people after being in europe for two+ weeks. the only fat people i saw in europe were american tourists (aside from one large british woman at the airport). it makes me wonder how unhealthy american culture is.
ok, maybe more later. i'm going to get some fresh nicotine air.
so friday night, we celebrated nelson's birthday. the dinner itself was sort of a travesty/disaster, though, because we had it at dave & buster's in the showroom, where they were having... A KARAOKE PARTY. yup. horrible, loud singing with an annoying over-hyper DJ and some pretty bad singers. not to mention the food i got was disgusting.
but afterwards, we headed back to mike and paul's place, had cake, a tequila shot, and played dominos (TWELVE dots?!). that was much better.
saturday afternoon, i went with rainbow to ted's housewarming party. there weren't any really interesting people there, so luckily i only had to stay about 45 minutes before i left to have dinner with adam and rae. we met at los portales, and i got the arroz con pollo, which was pretty good. the crab quesadillas were a bit too "crabby" though.
i went home and watched the stanford/BYU game, which was good for us because we knocked out their first two quarterbacks and forced them to play with their third-string signal caller. we won handily. *huzzah*
sunday, i woke up and headed up to the city to hang out with hr girl. we hit an irish pub (i got the fish and chips, which were pretty greasy but good) and watched some tennis/football before hitting crate and barrel and virgin megastore, where i bought two cd's. that makes 3 three purchases for the year so far; i'm trying to be frugal here! (but i couldn't resist picking up the new thievery corporation cd and the new future sound of london release.)
i managed to hit 49er traffic going up AND coming back down. but after i got home, i rested up for a bit before going to tony roma's with jay and margaret. i'm not a big rib eater (too messy for my tastes), but i had a half a rack of their redhots (which weren't that spicy anyway) and some of their famed onion loaf.
and that was it for my weekend. i got some much-appreciated social interaction, and a good amount of alone time. :)