Aftereffects
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: One World Reggae
Topic: On the way to Triathlon
My parents came over promptly at 8 am so that we could go over to the Chris Zorich Foundation 5K. Bejoy called too and said he was coming. We parked next to Jen's house and walked over from Grand Central Station to Soldier field. The race was hard and long. I was hoping to beat my 9:10 time, but instead I ended up running a 10 minute pace! 31:00 min! What happened? I placed 54th overall and 13th in my age group. BJ placed 199 with a 13 minute pace and 40:24 overall time. Guess I shouldn't have smoked 3 cigars and had 15 drinks the night before, followed up with only 5 hours of sleep, eh?

Partay
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: roll out
Topic: Day to Day
Woke up just in time to get a call from my parents. they were at the dentist. Lately they've been pretty needy. Calling me every day and trying to see me 10 times a weekend. I asked them flat out if anyone was dying or something. Maybe they're just worried I'm going to move out of state. Last night they called and told me they'd be at the dentist and afterwards they wanted to use up their lettuce entertainment gift certificate. We decided to go to cafe ba'ba'reba since Brasserie Jo, my favorite, was closed for lunch. The place is a little overpriced for Tapas - my first time there. Iberico is still #1. Then we went and looked at a bunch of stores up and down halsted. Then I went home to let the dog out, changed, and headed over to meet GP at Alumni. She was supposed to take me to this new restaurant by her work, but the Sicilian and the Lawhole were going to be there, and she just couldn't take it.

GP now has email! woo hoo!

Anyway, I brought with me my two left-over cigars. We were drinking on the patio, I was smoking, and we were playing golf. AA and VK came out too. Right before they came out, I saw these two hot guys walk in. Prrrrrr! I sent them over drinks right away. I'm so uninhibited sometimes. Nothing to do with the drinks - I only had one at that point. Then we got adopted/absorbed into a bachelor party that hooked me up with a third cigar, and got us more drinks. The two hot guys sent GP and I drinks back. Then AA and VK, who had fun playing golf with us, took off.

Our waitress, Ann, rocked by the way, cuz she put up with all of our demands and never left us dry on drinks. She told me in the beginning when she sent them drinks, that they didn't speak any English. SCORE! She was so curious where they were from and asked them. She then told us they were Italian. Non han problemas! After a few more drinks from the two hot guys, we started making Ann carry notes back and forth. Bummer that I didn't keep some of them as a souvenir. Finally, after about 2 yager bombs and 4 beers. GP and I walked over. Turned out one of them was Finnish and married. His name was Shimu - I'm scrambling for privacy. The other one had huge Egyptian rings on his fingers, but no band. He had long, curly hair and a 3-band beard, and Italian. I'll call him Tomato Soup because that's what GP thinks his name sounds like. Barbuso i panchuso. The two guys couldn't even speak the same language. So they just stood there. They work together, one speaks like a few English words - Shimu. The other doesn't at all. Shimu lived in Italy for a year so I guess he could understand what Tomato Soup was saying, but that's all. Not much could go back the other way.

I lived in Italy for almost a year and at that point I was somewhat fluent in the language. But when we got here, I had to learn English and so Italian got pushed out. Not only that, but this was 15 years ago! And then in college, I took a summer crash course in Italian. It was an audit and I hardly went. So my Italian was ehh, questionable at best. That and I kept code-switching with Spanish. Nevertheless, we grabbed the guys and started playing that horseshoe-like bean bag game - the same one I loved so much with washers in Mexico. The foreigners won both times. Diabolico!

GP left at 11 because she was tired, and reminded me sternly that I had a 5 K to run in the morning and that I aught to go too. Problem was that LP called an hour ago and said she was coming. I went into my car and sat there to decide what to do. I was worried what she'd show up and not find me there and wait and look. I went into my car to charge my phone and call her. When I sat down, my phone rang and it was Tomato Soup. That was quick. He wanted to make me dinner sometime. We picked Tuesday night and I got his address.

I got a hold of LP on her dad's cell -she lost hers last week and has been going gonzo without it. She was already here and I went to find her. We stayed for 30 minutes and then took off. I went home and hit the sack. Running in the morning.

ryan adams
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: ryan adams
Topic: my own bachelorette show
Got a very nice letter from bf today. what a great guy. I think I'll fly him out here one of those days and give him the time of his life. He deserves it already. Besides, he's fun and I think we'd have a lot of fun together.

golf league, finally in; gina and addie first times
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: 1974 by ryan adams
Topic: Golf
Left work at 4:15 and went to GP's office. It's inside an old barn, I couldn't believe it. Not too bad actually, a one room suite with what looks like Frank's bedroom connected to it. Marc was there and GP kept calling me on my drive to see how far I was, cause she couldn't wait to get the heck out. I walked in with her once I finally found the place and she said "the asshole is there". I walked in and said "hi asshole". The asshole didn't even turn around, he knew it was me. "Hi IL, how are you?" he responded. Lawyers! We queued up directions to the course, and off we went in my car.

AA met us there. It started to rain. GP did real well, the technique and the stroke is definitely fantastic after one day, only thing is that it will take her some time to believe that it's going to make the ball go if she keeps doing it. AA turned out to be a natural. At my barbeque, he was showing me how to use the shanai, the kendo sword/stick. I mentioned to him it seemed similar to golf. After I showed him the golf swing, he confirmed that it really was. He did really well. Something like $150 yards his first day! Only that he is way off to the right, maybe he's twisting the club face too much or coming in too under the ball or something. I don't know if I can help much there. But I think we'll need to get JK in and have a best ball game with the four of us.

Before I left work, I called SC, the golf league person. It's been at least two weeks since I sent in my check and I haven't heard back. I am eager to play. She told me she'd send my number around to some folks looking for singles.

While I was showing GP and AA how to play, my cell rang. It turned out that it was Iris, (lol AY, how do you like that?) and that they had a spot for me on the 8:30 am Friday league. I'm in. Right now I don't mind missing work. I'll do a half day on Friday, call it working from home, and hit some golf balls. With Iris and Stella. One is AY's pet, one is mine. Ironic!!!

I was hitting pretty well, in the 200ds, completely straight.

I broke in my rescue club - iron wood, and it does about 120, straight and easy off the grass. Wonderbar!

Nemo Puked
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: who let the dogs out
Topic: pets
Nemo puked up some green stuff that first I thought was poo on the floor, but then turned out to be puke, with a huge hair ball in the middle. Time to get Nemo some cat grass and pet food with grass in it.

transievals
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: hip hop anything
Topic: On the way to Triathlon
Mike S said to try intervals and do transitions as soon as possible. So I swam 6 laps in the pool and tried to do the 1/4mile fast as you can 1/8mile slow intervals for 5K. MAAAAn am I hurting. The road to Tri is very long. swimming is not getting any better but hopefully i'm getting somewhere. transitions by the way is when you do 2 or more sports without a break. OUCH.

work is poo poo
Mood:  down
Now Playing: you got me working day and night
Topic: Joblog
work sucks. that's right, it sucks.

worked till 9:30 pm today, from about 7am. SUCKS. DT is a dick and a coward. I don't even care anymore. I need a vacation.

Lunch
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: teen golf on TV
Topic: Friends
GP and AA and I had dinner at the Fox and Hound in Schaumburg. We figured out it must have been the first time since a year ago at Friday's. We vowed to do that more often. Nice to see friends in the middle of a hostile day.

AA has been on strict oatmeal diet because his mom's worried about his heart. I hope he'll be OK. He quit Kendo for now, so that he can get better. I know he was too sick to go to work one day. I wonder how sick. I wish he'd try yoga. And get health insurance so that he can go to doctors. Sigh.

I figured out how to use this thing finally
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: Bamba, again... over and over in my head. Un poquito de gracia. Ariba Ariba.
Topic: Day to Day
OK, I took the time to figure out that I can edit entries, I can always go back and change stuff and how to do the image thing too. Ok so now I can be more regular because instead of procrastinating, I can fix stuff later!

belly button bang
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: Marilyn Mason anything.
Topic: Day to Day


I did it cuz I was feeling a lot of internal emotional pain and I needed to be massichistic. That and I've wanted one for 2 years. This marks the beginning of not waiting anymore to do anything, and not being indecisive. This is a year of doing not dreaming. Kowa bunga dudes! That n it looks really cool. Jade Dragon baby. Thanks AA :-) you are the best.